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President Bush`s Ratings Fall Sharply President`s Ratings Now 52% Positive, 46% Negative Colin Powell Now the Only Cabinet Member or Political Leader with Very High Ratings ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The last two months have taken a heavy toll on the president`s popularity, but a modest 52% to 46% majority still gives him positive ratings. Two months ago, almost two-thirds of all U.S. adults (64%) gave the president positive ratings and only just over a third (35%) gave him negative ratings. Other members of President Bush`s cabinet, as well as the parties in Congress and Congressional leaders, with one exception, have all seen a huge decline in their popularity since the very high numbers we recorded soon after September 11, 2001. The one exception is Secretary of State Colin Powell. He still enjoys an extraordinarily high degree of popularity, with 76% giving him positive ratings and only 21% giving him negative ratings. These numbers are fractionally better than they were in December 2002, perhaps because of his powerful recent testimony to the United Nations Security Council. While none of the other leaders has seen as big declines since last December as President Bush has, their numbers, nonetheless, are all down very substantially since their peak soon after September 11, 2001. Including results from the latest poll, we see the following declines in popularity since soon after September 11, 2001: * President Bush down from 88% to 52%, a decline of 36 points. * Secretary of State Colin Powell down from 88% to 76%, a decline of 12 points. * Vice President Dick Cheney down from 69% to 45%, a decline of 24 points. * Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld down from 78% to 56%, a decline of 22 points. * Attorney General John Ashcroft down from 65% to 51%, a decline of 14 points. * House Speaker Dennis Hastert down from 52% to 33%, a decline of 19 points. * The Republicans in Congress down from 67% to 43%, a decline of 24 points. * The Democrats in Congress down from 68% to 38%, a decline of 30 points. These are some of the results of The Harris Poll(R), a nationwide telephone survey conducted by Harris Interactive(R) among a sample of 1,010 adults, from February 12 to 16, 2003. Mehr unter: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=CMPTW_inte… |
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