CBS/NYT poll: Bush job approval up to 58%

[ringmastery]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/16/opinion/polls/main588937.shtml

BUSH’S JOB APPROVAL

After Saddam's Capture
Approve
58%
Disapprove
33%

Before Saddam's Capture
Approve
52%
Disapprove
40%

REMOVING SADDAM HUSSEIN FROM POWER WAS…

Worth It
After Saddam's Capture
54%
Before Saddam's Capture
47%
11/03
50%
5/03
65%


Not Worth It
After
37%
Before
43%
11/03
43%
5/03
28%

[mw]

1. Thats not that big of a bump

I just hope that the capturing of Saddam doesn't result in Bush's re-election.

The only good to come out of our troops' sacrifice is the removal of Bush in 2004. It's an indirect way to die for one's country, but it works.

If Bush is re-elected, then our troops will have suffered and died in vain.

[dusty64]

5. No it isn't.

And all that despite the most despicable whorefest I have EVER witnessed re: saddam and our "soaring" economy and the "blockbuster" Christmas shopping season. This will be a very shortlived bump.

[ClintonTyree]

2. The quagmire will continue...................

"transfer tubes" will continue to coming back to the States, mother and fathers will still lose sons and daughters.........nothing has changed. Within a month Saddam will be forgotten and the reality that we're no safer with him captive than we were without will reinforce itself in the people's minds. Bush always gets these little bumps, but you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The crap always settles to the bottom, and that's where W will end up.

[Bombtrack]

3. "was war right thing" is higher

right thing/wrong thing has never been lower than a 15 point gap in for "right thing". And that minimum was after November, the bloodiest month of the war.

It will most likely go back up to mid-sixtys right thing, mid 30s wrong

[izzie]

4. With voters split I see this as being about right.

About half think war and killing will fix things. Would be interesting if we could get the 40 or so percent that do not vote to vote, and are these non-voters in that poll?The president always swings a lot of polls for a while any how.Look at Nixon. Interesting we are seeing more of Bush and will anyone take odds on when he will need to drag out the big guns to get him out of trouble? Every time they have let him speak off the cuff he has got in to trouble and some one must clean up after him. Now he is getting more and more ego driven so let us watch what he can do.