TIME Poll has Bush At 36%

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TIME Poll: The Foley Scandal Has Hurt the G.O.P.
Two-thirds of those aware of the scandal believe Republican leaders attempted a cover-up, according to a new survey
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Posted Thursday, Oct. 05, 2006
Two-thirds of Americans aware of the lurid e-mails set to congressional pages by a G.O.P congressman believe Republican leaders tried to cover up the scandal — and one quarter of them say the affair makes them less likely to vote for Republican candidates in their districts come November. Those are among the findings of a new TIME poll conducted this week among 1,002 randomly-selected voting-age Americans.

The poll suggests the Foley affair may have dented Republican hopes of retaining control of Congress in November. Among the registered voters who were polled, 54% said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic candidate for Congress, compared with 39% who favored the Republican. That margin may be fueled by the rolling scandal over sexually explicit e-mails sent to teenage pages by Republican Representative Mark Foley. Almost 80% of respondents were aware of the scandal, and only 16% approve of the Republicans' handling of it. Those polled were divided, however, on whether House Speaker Dennis Hastert should resign over his handling of the Foley affair, with 39% saying he should resign and 38% saying he should not.

Iraq, meanwhile, is continuing to be a problem for the Republicans. Only 38% of respondents in the TIME poll now support President Bush's decision to invade Iraq, down from 42% three months ago. A similar number believe that the new Iraqi government will succeed in forming a stable democracy, while 59% believe this is unlikely. Almost two-thirds (65%) of respondents disapprove of President Bush's handling of the war, while 54% believe he "deliberately misled" Americans in making his case for war — a figure that has increased by 6 points over the past year. President Bush's overall approval rating, according to TIME's poll, now stands at just 36%, down from 38% in August.

[LiberalArkie]

1. I asked a couple of Republican friends of mine today that very question

Do you think they tried to cover it up? They both said sure, what's wrong with that.

I tend to forget that it is Democrats that find things like that wrong. My Republican friends do
not see that Halliburton did anything wrong in Iraq. "If someone will pay you $1000 for an ice scream cone, why not get it". No ethics, or different ethics. I keep getting side-tracked by the Republicans ethics because they never see any thing wrong. "Greed is good" type ethics.

My point is, just because some people feel that the Republicans got caught may not mean anything at all.

[rfranklin]

3. Same ones who feel that the Jews deserved the Holocaust...

for being too Jewy.

[rfranklin]

2. Still too high! Should be about 2%...

And that's the people who are in a vegetative state whose answers can only be divined by Senator Doc Frist.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Terry Schiavo used mind telepathy to let Frist know she was a big Bush fan

Amazing, isn't it?

[Parche]

5. next week

Do I hear 29% by next week!!!!!