Monday, December 20, 2004
If Not for His Human Shields in Iraq, Bush Would Have Lost Big Last Month
I know most of you are out doing holiday preparations, but if you have time to shoot off a letter to your local paper and/or to one of the national papers (letters@nytimes.com, letters@latimes.com, letters@washpost.com, editor@usatoday.com), you might want to mention this information from the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll:
Most Americans do NOT approve of the job Bush is doing. The only thing that saved his butt last month was the circle-the-wagons mentality left over from 9/11 and which extends to the human shields Bush is hiding behind, aka Our Troops.
Here's what we think of Bush's handling of:
The Economy: 46% approve...51% DISAPPROVE.
Iraq: 42% approve...57% DISAPPROVE.
Social Security: 38% approve...52% DISAPPROVE.
Health Care: 37% approve...56% DISAPPROVE.
The only "approval" bush gets is on his "war on terra"...and that's because most Americans don't have a clue (thanks to our less-than-informative media) what that even means.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that President Bush's overall job approval rating is just below 50 percent, with 48 percent of Americans approving of his performance and 49 percent disapproving.
More respondents disapprove "strongly" (38 percent) than approve "strongly" (27 percent) of his performance. This is Bush's lowest "strong" approval since Sept. 11, 2001.
The upshot? Don't feel as if Bush's "big win" means you must keep silent. Keep hammering away!
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