How Low Can He Go?--Froomkin--WaPo

[Demeter]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/02/28/BL2006022800641.html?referrer=email

How Low Can He Go?

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, February 28, 2006; 12:42 PM



.....
Elisabeth Bumiller and Marjorie Connelly write in the New York Times: "There has been a decline in Mr. Bush's support even among Republicans. In the January Times/CBS News poll, 83 percent of Republicans approved of the way he was handling his job; in the latest poll 72 percent approve. Approval among self-identified conservatives also dropped to 52 percent, from 62 percent.

"Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.

"In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September's poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall." ...

"Still, the incident (shooting Whittington) appears to have made the public's already negative view of Cheney more so. Just 18 percent said they had a favorable view of the vice president, down from 23 percent in January."