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To: MrLucky who wrote (7121)	5/10/2004 4:52:43 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 90947

President's rating hits low By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Bush's approval rating dropped to the lowest of his presidency in a poll taken after a week of revelations about abuse of Iraqi prisoners and questions about whether Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should keep his job. Forty-six percent of Americans approve of Bush's job performance in the USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll released Monday. That's 3 percentage points lower than his 49% in late January, early March and last week. A majority said they disapproved of his handling of Iraq and the economy. (Related link: Poll results) The Bush decline did not produce new support for Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the expected Democratic presidential nominee. In a hypothetical matchup among likely voters, Kerry fell 2 points since last week — from 49% to 47% — and remained in a dead heat with Bush, who was steady at 48%. In the 16 states that were close in 2000, the new poll shows Bush with a 5-point edge over Kerry, 51%-46%, among likely voters. In mid-April, Bush and Kerry were tied at 49%. The states are Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin. Kerry is spending $25 million on an ad campaign about his life and record. To some extent, events in Iraq have overtaken the candidates' attempts to shape voter perceptions. Few changes in poll numbers are expected until the conventions and debates that focus voter attention on the race. Republican pollster Bill McInturff says the new poll and his own research suggest Kerry is experiencing "some cumulative impact" of Bush ads that depict him as a flip-flopper who can't be trusted. Kerry pollster Mark Mellman said the new poll shows Kerry gaining ground among registered voters, a bigger group than likely voters. Kerry went from 47% to 50% in a week; Bush went from 47% to 44%. Mellman said that suggests Kerry's ad campaign and events in Iraq are taking a toll on Bush. He also said the only president "this far behind" at this point in an election year was Gerald Ford, and he lost.

To: MrLucky who wrote (7121)	5/11/2004 8:20:57 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I agree and hope things get better in the coming months. Interesting this morning while walking at the club and watching the communist news network. They were talking about how the prisoner abuse scandal was galvanizing the anti war movement much like the Tet offensive did in 68 to the Vietnam movement. Tet was the beginning of the end for America in Vietnam and they think the scandal in Iraq will mark our end there. What I really find interesting about the comparison is Tet won us the conflict if we had pressed forward according to most analysis. We lost because the government caved in to the anti war movement who used the graphic images from Tet to bolster their case. We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by caving into the clueless. Will we do it again?