Summary Box: Most dislike Soc. Sec. plan

[UpInArms]

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D89T9OU00.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down

MAY. 5 6:21 P.M. ET NO SPARE CHANGE: An AP-Ipsos poll found 56 percent of respondents are not willing to follow President Bush's call to give up some guaranteed Social Security benefits to ensure the poor get theirs. A majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents oppose the plan.

AGREE TO DISAGREE: Bush has been saying Social Security is in trouble, and 70 percent of poll respondents agree with him. But 60 percent say they don't like the way he's handling the issue.

ISSUE OF TRUST: When asked whom they trust more to handle Social Security, 48 percent of respondents said Democrats and 36 percent said Republicans.

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[struggle4progress]

1. Poll: Public Doubts Bush Soc. Security Plan

By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
Friday, May 6, 2005

05-06) 09:16 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- <snip>

Bush's job approval is at 47 percent with 51 percent disapproving, and his approval on areas like handling Iraq, the economy and assorted domestic issues is in the low 40s. <snip>

Nine of 10 Republicans approve of Bush's performance, while almost as many Democrats disapprove. Independents were divided. <snip>

"Social Security raised me from a little boy," said Christopher Haskin, a Republican from Elmdale, Kan., whose father died when he was very young. "If it wouldn't have been for Social Security, we never would have made it."

The AP-Ipsos poll of 1,000 adults was taken May 2-4. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/05/national/w233055D95.DTL