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Is Bush's Alleged High Approval Rating For Real?
(James G. Wieghart, TheHill.com, September 29, 2002)
The big mystery out here in the land of woods and lakes is: Who are the pollsters polling when they keep coming up with such high numbers for President Bush's approval rating? . . . Like most Americans elsewhere, people around here rallied around the president and his War on Terrorism after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon. But serious questions are now being raised as to the pace and scope of that war, and the effectiveness of the steps taken thus far to make Americans more secure from terrorist attacks. . . . Despite all the hoopla about beefed up security at airports, nothing much has changed except longer lines at airport security checkpoints and random checks of passengers that most often single out women with children, elderly couples and business travelers rather than suspicious-looking characters. . . . What frightens people around here most of all is Bush's obsession with expanding the war into Iraq, a move that our European allies, except Great Britain, and all of the Arab countries strongly oppose. No one doubts that Saddam Hussein is attempting to build an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. But the fact that he is surrounded by others who have already developed such weapons, including Pakistan, India, Israel, China and Russia, not to mention the nearby naval forces of the United States and Great Britain, makes this presumed threat sound a bit feeble. . . . The real test of the public's view of the Bush presidency will come in November when the people who really count, the voters, go to the polls to elect a new House and one-third of the Senate. . . . And from here in the heartland, it looks as if the Democrats will not only keep control of the Senate, but win control of the House as well.

posted by LoZo 5:32 PM