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Bush Job Approval Dips Into 60s

U.S. President Bush was able to keep his job approval rating above 70 percent two months longer than his father did a decade ago, but the current president slipped to the mid-60s this week amid growing nervousness about the economy.


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U.S. President Bush was able to keep his job approval rating above 70 percent two months longer than his father did a decade ago, but the current president slipped to the mid-60s this week amid growing nervousness about the economy.

The president's sky-high post-Sept. 11 ratings above 70 percent lasted for more than 10 months. Now he has to do his best to avoid his father's continued slide. Then-President George H.W. Bush's ratings dropped below 50 percent a year after they had skyrocketed in 1991 during the Persian Gulf war.

The younger Bush's ratings had hovered just above 70 percent in most polls for the past few months. Now a Newsweek poll shows his job approval at 65 percent and an Ipsos-Reid poll done for the Cook Political Report and an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll have him at 67 percent.

Bush's ratings soared to 90 percent and stayed high for an extraordinary period ``because the war on terrorism was going pretty well as far as people could tell,'' political scientist Rohde said.

``Now things are going worse on the domestic front, particularly with the economy and the stock market,'' Rohde said. Bush has a cushion, however, he said, adding: ``His ratings now are higher than they would have been if there hadn't been a Sept. 11.''

Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said the White House was not concerned about the new poll numbers.

Source: Agencies


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