Ratings for Bush, Congress sink lower
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Like twin Jacques Cousteaus of the political world, President Bush and Congress are probing the depths of public opinion polling as voters exasperated over Iraq, immigration and other issues give them strikingly low grades.
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Division between President Bush and Congress over the Iraq war hardens.
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The American public is deeply ambivalent about President Bush as he begins his second term and his approval rating is lower than any recent two-term presidents, a troubling sign for his ambitious agenda, an Associated Press poll found.
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The collapse of a White House-backed  overhaul of U.S. immigration laws was the starkest sign yet of  President George W. Bush&#39;s dwindling influence during a second  term undone by chaos in Iraq and last year&#39;s congressional  election losses, analysts said.
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The public's confidence in President Bush's job performance and the nation's direction has slipped in the opening weeks of his second term, particularly among people 50 and older, according to an Associated Press poll.
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WASHINGTON (CP) - The US election was down to the wire early Wednesday in a tight race that saw the state of Ohio become as big a question mark as Florida in 2000, with President George W. Bush winning the popular vote from an electorate ultimately wary
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WASHINGTON, Sept 7  - President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival for the White House, John Kerry, clashed Tuesday over the Iraq war and the US economy as a new poll showed Kerry falling behind in public ratings.
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Public approval of the job President Bush is doing now matches its all-time low, an AP-Ipsos poll says. The survey, released Thursday, reflects widespread discontent over how Bush is handling the war in Iraq, efforts against terrorism and domestic issues. It also underscores challenges Republican presidential and congressional candidates will confront next year when they face voters who seem to be clamoring for change.
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George W. Bush has either established a commanding lead over John Kerry or he has lost most of the momentum generated by his party&#39;s convention and fallen back into a tie with his Democratic rival.
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A majority of Americans now say the  war in Iraq was not worth fighting, a view that has driven down  the ratings of both President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald  Rumsfeld, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll  released on Monday.
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Disappointing policy results and peaking public disgust in his private life are behind a plunge in the president's approval ratings
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President Bush may be pushing hard for Congress to give him line-item veto power to remove wasteful spending from the bills it passes, but the idea seems to be sinking on Capitol Hill.
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President George W. Bush's campaign strategy of painting Democrats as soft on terrorism has been stalled by a congressional sex scandal, jeopardizing Republican hopes of holding the House of Representatives, analysts say.
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President Bush's unpopularity -- due largely to the war in Iraq -- seems likely to affect GOP candidates in the midterm elections in November, according to a CNN poll released today. Fifty-five percent of 1,004 Americans surveyed said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who has supported Bush administration policies, according to the poll.
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Public approval of the job President Bush is doing now matches its all-time low, an AP-Ipsos poll says.
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Public views of the national economy are now more negative than at any point in nearly 15 years, and few people believe that the kind of stimulus plan being devised by President Bush and Congress is enough to stave off or soften a recession, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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President Bush has been dogged by a spate of bad news in the final days of the presidential campaign but it is unclear whether that will sway enough voters to affect the election outcome.