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.
The good news for progressives is that Bush's poll numbers are dropping into the high thirties. The bad news is that his numbers will not go much lower than they are now simply because the hardcore base for him or any Republican president is around 35%. But that still gives us a clear majority that may be open to a progressive alternative.
>
> Michael
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