On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:35:57 -0400 (EDT) Michael Pollak
<mpollak at panix.com> writes:
>
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Doug Henwood posted CNN's reprise of Gallup:
>
> > Just 41 percent of the 818 adults polled between Friday and Monday
> said
> > they approved of Bush's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane
> Katrina,
> > while 57 percent disapproved.
>
> This lends support to the idea that the 50/50 support he was getting
> when
> his performance was unbelievably abysmal was simply an artifact of
> time lag
> -- that it took non-newshounds weeks to digest and realize just how
> badly
> he'd done. He's now lost 20% of his support since then, when he's
> arguably
> been doing everything as well as it could be done spin wise and the
> worst is
> over.
If he is poll numbers are running under 40% then his support has been reduced to his hardcore base within the electorate, in other words the sort of people who thirty years ago stuck by Nixon until the bitter end. That's not a very comfortable place to be for a guy who still has a relatively ambitious political agenda and must still fill another Supreme Court seat. As I have said before any number of times the fact that Roberts rather than Scalia or Thomas was given the nod for Chief Justice is an indication that the Bush White House knows that it is now playing with a weaker hand. Under almost any other circumstances they would have chose differently.
>
> Michael
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