Less than half of US would vote to return Bush to White House

[John_H]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030730/pl_afp/us_politics_poll

"WASHINGTON (AFP) - Less than half of Americans surveyed -- only 47 percent -- would vote for President George W. Bush (news - web sites) in the 2004 election, according to a Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll published.

Some 41 percent of those polled said they would vote for the yet-to-be-chosen Democratic candidate. There are nine Democrats vying for their party's nomination.

The dip below the key 50 percent mark is "a sign that this thing's not done," political analyst Charles Cook told USA Today"

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Then there is this very interesting paragraph:

"The level of support for Bush was surprising, considering the same poll found that 58 percent approve of the job he is doing in office. According to USA Today, former presidents Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) and Bill Clinton (news - web sites) did not see significant differences between their approval ratings and election support."

This is huge. It's proof that while Chimpy's support is half a mile wide because of the war and only the war--it's only it's about a quarter of an inch deep. People (mostly swing voters, I bet) are perfectly willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as a "wartime president," but when it comes to walking into a voting booth and pulling a lever for him, they ain't gonna do it.

The beautiful thing is that as his depravity becomes more and more apparent even that support is bound to crumble.