[lbo-talk] a shred of hope

[Doug Henwood]

Bush's latest Gallup approval ratings are 69% approve, 26% 
disapprove, a gap of 43 percentage points. The poll was taken April 
7-9, as Baghdad was falling, and the numbers were essentially 
identical to March's. These are much weaker than Daddy Bush's 
numbers, which were 89/8 (a gap of 81 points) as the Gulf War 
ceasefire took effect on Feb 28 91 - and W's own numbers just after 
9/11, when they were 90/6, the highest since Gallup started asking 
the question in 1941.

Doug