Americans don't like President Bush personally much anymore, either

[Robbien]

BY STEVEN THOMMA
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - It's not just the way he's doing his job. Americans apparently don't like President Bush personally much anymore, either.

A drop in his personal popularity, as measured by several public polls, has shadowed the decline in Bush's job-approval ratings and weakened his political armor when he and his party need it most.

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Personal favorability can encompass many things in the minds of voters: character, respect, warmth, kinship, even whether a voter would want to have a beer with a politician. Or in the case of the teetotaling Bush, a soda. Bush has lost ground on most of those measures.

Gallup, for example, found drops in the number of people who think that Bush is honest and trustworthy, that he shares their values and that he cares about people like them.

Personal popularity can swing elections and affect governing.

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"Look at where Bush is today. You could argue that, even though his job approval rating was low, if he had a significantly higher personal approval rating, congressional Republicans would not have strayed as far from him."

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/14621960.htm

[theshadow]

1. Morons tend to have low 'Q' ratings. eom

[Lisa]

2. Not surprising. Who wants to have a beer with someone ...

... who'd spend the whole time whining and blaming them for what's wrong ... then stick them with the bill?

[MrBenchley]

3. Plus he picks fights for no reason

but expects other people to do the fighting for him because he's a coward...

[SharonAnn]

4. They figured out he's a "con" man. A trickster. Says one things but

does another (which is to take advantage of one's gullibility.)

[MrBenchley]

6. True....true....

Hell hath no fury like a chump who discovers he's been played for a chump.....

[Ken Burch]

7. "he picks fights for no reasons"

Hey, THAT sounds familiar...

[Ouabache]

5. Who wants to drink O'DOULS or SHARPS with Bush the Alkie?

because the fucking alcoholic can't drink real beer, and if alcoholism disqualified Thomas Eagleton from the Vice-presidency in 1972, how's come this needle dick gets a pass? Is it because he was never treated for his alcoholism ??

[Vidar]

11. Eagleton was sidelined for depression & shcock treatments, but your point

is valid.

[yurbud]

8. Was his likeability ever more than spin? He always seemed like a smug

frat boy who was smiling because he was about to smack your bare ass with a cricket paddle.

[ixion]

9. yeah, I've never understood the whole 'likeability' thing with *

I knew guys like him in college, and they were some of the most loathesome people I've ever had the unhappiness of meeting.

I didn't like Little Lord Pissypants from the get-go, and I like him much less now. :grr:

[Demeter]

10. Took Long Enough

I wonder sometimes why the US hasn't collapsed into chaos and total non-functionality by now. The momentum is gone, the work ethic is just about dead, and the social contract is in shreds. Why do we still get groceries in the store, and gas at the pump? Why haven't power and water shut down?