Amos:

Actually, I believe this spurious link to approval ratings was introduced by you in these posts:
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From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 07 - 12:46 PM
From Salon on-line, an essay by Garrison Keillor:
Daddy issues

Our president is resolving unconscious Oedipal obsessions by lashing out at foreign countries -- and it's time his father stepped in.

By Garrison Keillor

Jan. 3, 2007 | As the new Congress convenes this week and Speaker Pelosi .... and then he doggedly stuck by them until his approval ratings sank into the swamp.Subject: RE: BS: Popular views of the Bush Administration
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From: Amos
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 12:38 PM

The Australian "theage.com.au" opines:

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Bush's popularity hits new low



US President George Bush's popularity fell to a new low following his state of the nation speech this week, Newsweek has reported in its latest poll.

With two years left in the White House, only 30 per cent of the 1003 people polled said they approved of Bush's job performance, down from a high of 83 per cent approval at the beginning of 2002.
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From: Amos
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 09:26 AM

Paul Krugman has an interesting essay on why Bush is the extension of the spirit of Reagan's administration in today's Times.

An excerpt:

"Why is there such a strong ............... to leave office with an approval rating about as high as that of Bill Clinton,