Looking at the numbers and the overall lack of support for his agenda, it's amazing that he managed to fool just enough people in November to win. Overall, no big surprises in the latest NYT/CBS poll though I have to wonder what people are thinking about Iraq which is enjoying higher numbers at the moment. Maybe people are just numb to the daily killing that is going on there. The Democrats have plenty to work with here and appear to be winning on a few fronts. It's time to take this Social Security issue over the top and make sure Bush is licking his wounds on this issue. It's yet another boondoggle for his friends on Wall Street at the expense of average Americans so do not let him get even a small victory on this.
Perhaps Greenspan can quit talking out of both sides of his mouth as he did again yesterday and look at what Americans are thinking. Some highlights of the poll:
- 51 percent said permitting individuals to invest part of their Social Security taxes in private accounts...
- 45 percent said Mr. Bush's private account plan would actually weaken the economic underpinnings of the nation's retirement system.
- 53 percent of those surveyed said that efforts to bring order to Iraq were going very or somewhat well...(huh?)
- 63 percent of respondents say the president has different priorities on domestic issues than most Americans.
- 50 percent said Democrats were more likely to make the right decisions about Social Security, compared with 31 percent who said the same thing about Republicans.
- 58 percent of respondents said the White House did not share the foreign affairs priorities of most Americans.
- Sixty percent of respondents - including 48 percent of self-described conservatives - said they disapproved of how Mr. Bush was managing the deficit. And 90 percent of respondents described the deficit as a very or somewhat serious problem. (ATTENTION Democrats: Issue Alert)
