Whistling past the graveyard
Conservatives have been whistling a happy tune for the past week.
Happy days are here again, they say: Karl Rove hasn't been indicted yet, Iraq voters approved a constitution, and Bush found a Supreme Court nominee who is more than a sycophant.
The Bushies have turned it around, they say, after a few bad weeks.
How, then, to explain this poll, taken Oct. 31-Nov. 2, which shows W still on the way down, and at a new low:
A new AP-Ipsos poll found the president's approval rating was at 37 percent, compared with 39 percent a month ago. About 59 percent of those surveyed said they disapproved.This ABC News/Washington Post poll has more bad news: 58% question W's integrity.
The intensity of disapproval is the strongest to date, with 42 percent now saying they "strongly disapprove" of how Bush is handling his job - twice as many as the 20 percent who said they "strongly approve."
posted by xoff @ 9:14 AM
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I'll bite.
It's easy to explain Bush's sinking numbers when that "glowing economy" the pundits love to talk about is not reaching tens of millions of working families. Congressmen such as Sensenbrenner are putting the squeeze to the mass of people with punative bankruptcy laws, cuts to local government and basically nothing to help out the majority of his constituents.
All of the warts that this administration had all along are now protruding for all to see -- even the disengaged.
The reality is the radical right has found a way to prevent the bounty of this economy from reaching all but a few.
But the problem is many Democratic leaders are just as clueless as WAPO pundits such as David Broder and Richard Cohen, and so the voters have no where to turn when it comes to seeing politics as a solution.
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