A new Washingpost/ABC News poll was released today. Here are highlights:
-60% of Americans dispprove of the way President Bush is handling his job
-Barely a third approves of the way the Republican-held Congress is doing its job - the lowest level of support in nine years.
-55 percent, say they currently plan to vote for the Democratic candidate in their House district while 40 percent support the Republican candidate. That is the largest share of the electorate favoring Democrats in Post-ABC polls since the mid-1980s.
-Democrats have emerged as the party most Americans trust to deal with issues ranging from Iraq to the economy to health care. By 49 to 42 percent, Americans trust Democrats more than the GOP to do a better job dealing with Iraq. Democrats also currently hold a 6-percentage point advantage over Republicans (49 percent to 43 percent) as the party currently most trusted to handle the economy. Their lead swells to double-digits on such as issues as immigration (12 points), prescription drug benefits for the elderly (28 points), health care (32 points) and dealing with corruption in Washington (25 points). Even on terrorism, Democrats hold a 1-point advantage over the Republicans on the issue.
-While censure is viewed as a remote possibility by Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and the major media, more than four in ten Americans - 45 percent - favor censuring Bush for authorizing wiretaps of telephone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists without first getting court permission. Two-thirds of Democrats and half of all independents currently support censuring Bush, the poll found.
-The bloodshed and political chaos in Iraq continues to drag down support for the war, the new survey found. Barely four in ten - 41 percent - currently say the war was worth fighting, down five percentage points since December, and more than half of Americans think the troop levels in Iraq should be decreased.
These are great numbers, but the midterms are still nearly 7 months away and we should campaign like we're 10 points down until we win.
Monday, April 10, 2006
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I think there's certainly cause for optimism. While 7 months is a long time, I think Bush has essentially shackled himself to the war and to "scandals" here at home such as the NSA, Libby, etc., and he's essentially already a lame-duck president. If Al Qaeda attacks us again who knows; it might go one way, or it might go the other. But otherwise, I think the Dems position will only go stronger.
Actually if Al Qaeda attacks us again wouldn't that be a failure of Bush's whole doctrine and only serve to highlight the futility of the war on Iraq? And of course if Osama were to pop back into the public mind he'd remind people that Bush failed to capture him. I think Bush better read his intelligence briefings like he failed to do before 9/11 and make sure it doesn't happen again. It would be disaster for him!
But seriously, everyone agrees that the Iraq war is his legacy, and unless he somehow manages to turn it around today or tomorrow, it's just an albatross for him and all the people who tied themselves to his Presidency.
But Nate, despite all of Bush's failures, we still can't trust Democrats with our security! At least that's what Rita Cosby tells me on MSNBC...
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