So, we are in a funk because of the failed presidency of George Bush -- hence the lame duck status. USAToday/CNN/Gallup poll has more bad numbers for Team Chimpy:
The public has lost confidence in the Bush administration's ability to protect the nation from terrorist attacks, the poll shows, but 61% are still confident it can.The poll has Bush approval at 47%. Not good times for the White House...and they are not changing course apparently.
Satisfaction with the way things are going in the war on terrorism is at a new low: 52%, down from 75% in September 2002.
"On one hand, we have been lulled by the fact that there hasn't been an attack here since 2001," says Stephen Wayne, a political scientist at Georgetown University. "But on the other, we're generally in a funk about a lot of things — the economy and the war — and these numbers reflect it."
Thirty-nine percent of Americans, mostly Republicans, now say they favor the war in Iraq, down from a high of 72% in April 2003, the day after the statue of Saddam was pulled down in Baghdad.
