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A Hopeful but Worried Nation: Polls Finds Bush's Approval Rating Rising Despite Fears of More Fighting in Iraq
By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, April 11, 2003
... The survey ... found that President Bush's overall job approval rating continues to rise in step with the upbeat news from the front. Three in four Americans approve of the job that Bush is doing as president, his best rating since June. Eight in 10 support Bush's decision to go to war, and nearly two-thirds say the war is going "very well" for the United States -- up 19 percentage points in less than a week....
Americans are feeling better about their country than they were earlier this year. Two in three said they were satisfied with the way things were going in the United States, up 29 percentage points since early March before the war began....
Nearly two in three -- 64 percent -- said the war will leave the Middle East more stable than it is now.
"In the Middle East the only thing they respect is power," said Craig Winter, an electrical contractor in Massachusetts. "I think we've gained some respect in their eyes, not 'love' and not 'like,' but respect."
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5178-2003Apr10.html>
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