Bush is in trouble too

[T_i_B]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1051544,00.html

Watch George Bush's hand, for instance, as he does his courtly grovel for the Queen in November. A tremor here? A clenched fist there? Nobody should be surprised if the latest sets of American polls carry on heading south at their current rate. Smile a rictus smile and examine a sampling from the last few days.

A USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll finds that only 50% now approve of the overall job Bush is doing - down from this year's high of 71% in April. That's the president's lowest rating since he took office. Match him against a Democratic challenger without a name or a face - just Mr Watch-this-space - on the Zogby poll and he loses 45% to 41%.

Fox News (Rupert's finest) produces a poll split 39% to 39% if an election were held today. June set those figures at 51% to 30%. NBC and Wall Street Journal pollsters currently find only 49% backing George - another all-time low on that index. And if you prefer to investigate individual state results, the evidence seems chilling enough. An Arizona Republic poll reports that a mere 34% of deep west voters are backing the Texas cowboy for re-election in a state which he won easily by six points in 2000.The rot is wide and the rot is deep.

Remember those 90% ratings after 9/11? You can forget them now, probably for ever. Of course they were phoney, puffed by fear and pride: but they're only one benchmark in charting decline. A much more relevant one is the way, month by month through this torrid summer, Bush's ratings have sunk, and sunk again.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Well we know he is in trouble

what makes me nervous is... polls this low, and what may Rove
do.

[wakfs]

2. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I shudder to think about what our very own real evil-doers have planned.

[emad]

3. You can be sure that the UK will host a welcome for Dubya that

no US prez has ever had! He can call our bluff - Make My Day Asshole!

[glarius]

4. Official welcome is one thing...people in the street demonstrating another

There will probably be thousands in the streets demonstrating against him!

[emad]

5. It's going to be a great time for all those web sites that have

waited a LONG time to get launched! Not to mention all those people in the UK who have known the Bushes since the year dot and have previously declined to be interviewed about the lawsuits they won from the Bushes in harrassment/libel/slander suit.....etc