Bush's popularity rating drops to new low as Kerry extends lead: poll

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=1&u=/afp/20040131/pl_afp/us_poll_bush_kerry_040131232946

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s popularity rating has dropped to a new low of 49 percent while Senator John Kerry (news - web sites) has extended his lead over rival Democrats vying to face off against Bush in November's US presidential election, according to a Newsweek poll.


The poll, released Saturday, found Kerry would win a dust-up with Bush at the polls by 48 percent to 46 percent, however, the poll's three-percentage-point margin of error locks them in a statistical dead-heat.


"President Bush's job approval rating is the lowest ever recorded in a Newsweek poll, now down to 49 percent from 50 percent last week," the poll found.


Bush's overall popularity rating has fallen from a 71 percent rating recorded by Newsweek just after the fall of Baghdad in April.

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[girl gone mad]

1. I think Kerry's rise..

has a lot to do with his winning the NH and IA primaries.

[KC21304]

7. Or winning the NH and IA primaries had a lot to do with his popularity.

[sandnsea]

2. Didn't this happen last summer??

Wasn't it last summer when Kerry was taking it to Bush that Bush started falling in the polls??

Then somehow, Dean was the frontrunner and Bush started going up in the polls.

Hmmmmm....

[Mari333]

3. This part of the article is insane!

However, 55 percent of those polls by Newsweek said they believed Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) possessed banned chemical or biological weapons right before the US-led war began.

My god, how clueless are these people?????

[NNN0LHI]

6. Does that mean that they STILL believe Iraq had WMD before the war?

Or are they answering what they believed they possessed them at the time the war began? That is confusing.

Don

[ixion]

4. Bush has never been able to keep his numbers up in a 'normal' environment

He got a spike after the wtc thing, and he got couple spikes around the time we invaded a soverign nation (lord only knows why). But when the alleged barbarians are not at the gate , his numbers always go down, down, down.

[Frances]

5. When will we hear the media utter the words

unpopular president?

They sure drummed popular president into us over and over and over.

[countmyvote4real]

8. and he* wasn't even the elected president.

[Darkseid69]

9. When will we heard the media utter the words

IMPEACHMENT!

[Auntie Bush]

10. Can't be soon enough for me. n/t