Final Poll Shows Presidential Race from Gallup good news for Kerry

[AnIndependentTexan]

1. President Bush's job approval rating among the general public is now at 48%, no lower than it has been at other points in October, but below the 50% line that is symbolically important to an incumbent president. No president since Harry S Truman has been re-elected with a job approval rating below 50%.

2. Bush has lost positioning on both Iraq and terrorism to John Kerry over the last week. The most reasonable hypothesis is that the heavy emphasis by the Kerry campaign on the missing weapons in Iraq, perhaps coupled with the newly surfaced tape of Osama bin Laden, has hurt the president on both of these foreign policy dimensions.

Among all national adults, Kerry is now chosen by 49% of national adults as best able to handle Iraq, while Bush is chosen by 47%. This marks a significant pickup on this measure for Kerry, who was down nine points to Bush last week and has in general been less likely than Bush to be seen as better able to handle Iraq in every poll conducted since the time of the Democratic convention.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/default.aspx?ci=13873&pg=2

[Tesibria]

1. Faux just reported Job Approval rating was 51 in this morning's poll??? nt

[Captain Lance Bass]

2. Ya but then Shrub spoke on tv and dropped 3 pts :-)

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[AnIndependentTexan]

3. just changing us to Kerry

[StupidFOX]

4. GALLUP? GALLUP? "56-39" GALLUP????

OH YEAH! (was it 56-39 a while ago?)

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Memo to W: Time for your "My dog Barney knows more about foreign

policy than these bozos" line, just like daddy. It'll work just as well, too.:D