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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (578081)	5/25/2004 1:21:26 PM
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Bush's Public Approval Rating at New Low, Poll Says By REUTERS May 25, 2004 Filed at 7:04 a.m. ET nytimes.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's public approval ratings have sunk to new lows five months before the November election, according to an opinion poll published in Tuesday's Washington Post. Fifty percent of Americans surveyed disapproved of the job Bush was doing overall, with 47 percent approving his performance -- the lowest overall figure recorded by Washington Post-ABC News polls since the Republican president took office. And four of every 10 Americans surveyed gave Bush positive marks for his handling of Iraq, the lowest since the start of the war there in March last year, according to the poll. The Washington Post said the president's overall approval rating was 51 percent last month. Nearly all of the decline is due to a drop of seven percentage points among Republicans, according to the poll. It found Bush in a dead heat with Democratic candidate Massachusetts Senator John Kerry in the presidential race. Forty-six percent of registered voters said they would vote for Bush if the election were held today; 46 percent said they would support Kerry and 4 percent said they would back independent Ralph Nader, the poll said. Without Nader, Kerry led Bush 49 percent to 47 percent, according to the survey. The survey questioned 1,005 randomly selected adults between May 20 and 23 and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points. A majority of respondents were optimistic the situation in Iraq would be better a year from now, the survey said. But 50 percent said the war in Iraq was not worth the cost, while 48 percent said it was. Sixty-five percent said they thought the United States was bogged down in Iraq, 57 percent said the United States is not making significant progress in establishing a democratic government there and 58 percent said the president does not have a clear plan for Iraq, the poll found. Bush made a half-hour televised speech on Monday night to outline his plans to hand over power in Iraq and to convince Americans he has a workable plan for the Middle Eastern country. He did not announce a major change of course or a timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal, but spoke of progress being made while predicting violence could get worse in the short run. Copyright 2004 Reuters Ltd