Meant to post this yesterday when I picked up the paper and this was the first headline I saw. (What a lovely thing!)
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http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051209/NEWS09/512090369/1056President Bush's popularity in Iowa has sunk to the lowest level of his presidency, with 58 percent of adults frowning on his job performance.
A new Des Moines Register poll shows that disapproval of the Republican incumbent runs a gamut of issues — from his handling of the federal budget and the economy to the situation in Iraq and the federal government's hurricane response.
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The proportion of Iowans who applaud Bush's overall job performance has skidded from a peak of 84 percent in the fall of 2001, when a nation traumatized by terrorist attacks rallied around the president, to 38 percent in the latest Iowa Poll, taken Nov. 28 to Dec. 1.
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In the poll, 81 percent of Republicans and 7 percent of Democrats approve of Bush's overall job performance. Support from Republicans sags, however, in two areas. Slightly fewer than one-half applaud the president's handling of the federal budget and his effort to revamp Social Security.
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Can you believe that 81% of Iowan Republicans still toss their hat into the ring with this failure in terms of overall job performance? They must have no shame.