MSNBC Front Page: "Falling Support...Hits New Low...Can He Lead The Way?"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Bush job rating at new low, poll finds
60 percent disapprove of president’s performance

Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush's standing with the public to a new low, at the same time that Republican fortunes on Capitol Hill also are deteriorating, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The survey found that 38 percent of the public approve of the job Bush is doing, down three percentage points in the past month and his worst showing in Post-ABC polling since he became president. Sixty percent disapprove of his performance.

With less than seven months remaining before the midterm elections, Bush's political troubles already appear to be casting a long shadow over them. Barely a third of registered voters, 35 percent, approve of the way the Republican-held Congress is doing its job -- the lowest level of support in nine years.

The negative judgments about the president and the congressional majority reflect the breadth of the GOP's difficulties and suggest that problems of each may be mutually reinforcing. Although the numbers do not represent a precipitous decline over recent surveys, the fact that they have stayed at low levels over recent months indicates the GOP is confronting some fundamental obstacles with public opinion rather than a patch of bad luck.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12243327/

[unblock]

1. "can he lead the way" ARG! low poll numbers just a test for great leader?

how about "can he think of a single mistake NOW?"

[quiet.american]

2. Good question. And the answer, as we know is still the same. n/t

[demo dutch]

3. Surprised MSNBC didn't have their little "Poll" on the side of the article

[magellan]

4. The GOP "is confronting some fundamental obstacles with public opinion"

Yeah, it's called what happens when a president habitually lies through his teeth to the American people and his party helps him cover up the treason.