Atrios found this new polling data about Bush's credibility and, as Atrios notes, this is the one area in which Bush usually excels - i.e., the public USED to think they could trust him. Not anymore. It's amazing how after months and months of bad news, the public is finally starting to get it. I don't want to speak out of school here, but we could be in for a Kerry landslide:
New surveys by The New York Times and the Washington Post reveal a perilous plunge in the commander-in-chief's credibility. The Times found that 79 percent of the public thinks Bush either is hiding something about Iraq, or worse, is 'mostly lying' about it. The Post asked whether Bush or Kerry is 'honest and trustworthy,' and the president was judged to be honest by 39 percent. Kerry came in at 52 percent.
