Reply #5: And I thought I'd seen it all. [View All]

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Still I think it's a good day to be a Democrat:

Poll: Public's Trust in Bush Hits New Low

The public's trust in President Bush is at the lowest point of his presidency, with about half of those surveyed saying he is honest and trustworthy and almost that many saying he is not, according to a poll released Thursday. The ABC News-Washington Post poll found that 52 percent felt Bush was trustworthy, while 42 percent did not. The poll found public support for the war in Iraq slipping and people were about evenly split on whether they approve of the job he is doing as president or not.

For the first time in this poll, support for the war dipped just below half, 48 percent, with an equal share, 50 percent, saying it was not worth fighting. More than half in the poll, 54 percent, said that the Bush administration intentionally exaggerated the threat from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but more of that group says administration officials exaggerated the threat than said they lied.

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In other findings in the ABC-Post poll, Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry was ahead of Bush 51 percent to 43 percent in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040212_2214.html