Talking Points Memo has the latest from Rasmussen Reports which does daily tracking of Bush's approval rating using a rolling three-day average:
The latest Bush bounce is over. Today, 41% of American adults approve of the way that President Bush is performing his job and 57% disapprove. That’s exactly where the numbers were before the President’s 9/11 speech.Thursday (which was the first three day cycle post 9/11), Bush's approval had risen to 47. Since then, it's dropped 6 points. Rush Limbaugh maintains that Rasmussen's approval rating has always had Bush higher than most:
although I should say that I think Rasmussen has always had the president's approval numbers higher than any of the other national polls.The post 9/11 period was supposed to show a surge that would carry Bush and the GOP through to November 7th. WRONG.
