I heard the news on the polls but they didn't explain what questions were asked, they only explained their intrepretation of the results. As I recall, they indicated 50% "supported the president" compared to 46% support for Kerry. They called it even and said the difference was within the margin of error.

The odd thing was that the same poll evidently indicated that a significant majority of those polled (60%?) felt the country is headed in the wrong direction! Perhaps "support for the president" doesn't necessarily translate into votes.

As for an assessment of what Bush has done is concerned, I don't think it's fair to say that he's done nothing. He's done a great deal:

• He ignored warnings about al Qaida's intentions before 9/11.
  
• He sidetracked the war on terror for his mad obsession with Iraq.
  
• He's arranged for huge windfalls for the defense, energy and pharmaceutical industries.
  
• He's arranged it so corporations are no longer burdened with paying many of their employees for overtime.
  
• He's made front page news by being photographed with firemen before cutting funding to fire departments by more than one thousand million dollars.
  
• He's loosened controls on air and water pollution.
  
• He's cut funding for the nation's schools.
  
• He made big headlines promising $15B to help fight AIDS in Africa then cut it from his budget.
  
• He's trashed the US (and probably world) economy for a generation at least becoming the biggest spender ever.
  
• He's cut child abuse programs by 18%.
  
• He's helped reduce forest fires by clear-cutting the trees.
  
• He's allowed the Saudis to jack up oil prices with the promise to cut them just before the US election.
  

The list goes on and on. To say Bush hasn't done anything is far from accurate. It's just that everything he does moves us in the wrong direction, makes us less safe, makes our economic outlook more dismal, removes prospects for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

      - Mark