Poll Woes For Bush (CBS Poll) Kerry/Edwards 50% - W/Cheney 42%--W Approval@ 47%

cbsnews.com ^ | 02/28/04 | CBS/AP

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The four Democrats still officially seeking their party's presidential nod will debate Sunday for the last time before Super Tuesday, even as a new CBS News poll shows President Bush's approval rating slipping below 50 percent for the first time in that survey.

Some 47% of Americans now approve of the way the President is handling his job, while 44% disapprove.

The same poll shows a John Kerry/John Edwards ticket beating one headed by Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in the fall election, by a margin of 50 percent to 42 percent.

Whether that difference is due more to the appeal of Kerry and Edwards together or suggests weak voter support for Cheney couldn't be determined in this poll.

In addition, it shows both Kerry and Edwards running about even with Mr. Bush in the fall if they ran without the other on their ticket.

Americans continue to express doubts about the situation in Iraq, and point to the economy and jobs as the issues they are most concerned about.

Still, voters said they expect a Bush win in November, although that view is less pervasive than it was in early January. Now, 48% expect Mr. Bush to win, and 42% see a Democrat winning the presidency. In January, 55% expected the president to be re-elected, and just 31% thought the Democratic candidate could prevail.

Kerry holds a wide lead over Edwards in the poll as the choice of Democratic voters both nationwide and in the ten states that vote on Tuesday.

That lead for the nomination is especially strong among those Democrats who say beating the president is more important than agreeing on the issues.

Both Kerry and Edwards have gained public favor since the Democratic campaign began. More Americans hold favorable views of both men than have unfavorable ones.

And in a sign of how much the Democratic race has changed since the first weeks of the year, one-third of Super Tuesday voters say they are former Howard Dean supporters. Today, most of those voters back John Kerry.

"Countdown to Super Tuesday: The Democrats Debate," sponsored by CBS News, WCBS-TV and The New York Times, will bring together Kerry, Edwards, Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich in the CBS Broadcast Center in New York.

[SunkenCiv]

In addition, California was made possible by government programs -- water projects (hydroelectricity, irrigation, drinking water), defense spending (bases, manufacturing), aerospace (including integrated circuits), nukes...

The attempt by the (non-)Democrats ru(i)nning the CA legislature to further **** the budget in order to shove a large tax increase down everyone's throat was exposed and led to the defeat of Gray Davis and possibly to CA's 2004 Electoral College votes going Republican.

[SunkenCiv]

Put Cheney in an advisory role, off the ticket he goes

I doubt this will happen, and I can think of good reasons it should not happen. Number one, the partisan media shills will state (as if a fact) that Bush is on the defensive due to slipping poll numbers, and that whomever he picks (Dennis Miller? We've seen worse choices. Henry Wallace comes to mind) will be pandering or some such crap.

Number two, Cheney would have to have a health crisis to avoid the problems in number one, or at least claim to have some, and everyone already knows that he's had plenty in the past. There's no way anyone would buy it, or worse yet, it will be made to appear that the true state of his poor health has been deliberately obscured.

Number three, Cheney will destroy anyone put against him in any VP candidate debate.

Number four, Cheney is a hawk. If GWB puts anyone else onto the ticket, chances are it will NOT be a hawk. Those who claim to believe that GWB is a RINO (and I figure all the folks who do are just DemocRATs throwing bricks through the windows) will be even less inclined to show up election day.

Once GWB has been reelected and sworn in, Cheney can step down for health reasons, Bush can appoint whomever he wants to replace him, and the Republican majority in congress will approve.

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LOL!!! Craven Broadcastin Station Poll??? Are we supposed to take this network seriously. What a bunch of boobs.

[wgeorge2001]

As for your comments about me being wrong, you are overlooking the fact that California alone carry's 50% of the weight of illegal immigrants. The rest are disbursed across 49 other states. You don't see an certain amount of inequity in that, a monetary exposure? While Californians were trying to explain that to the rest of the nation, and our leaders, they were told that illegals were not that big a problem and to live with it.
I'd love to see your state take five to six million freeloaders. Then we could see how your conservative leadership would pay the bills.


Oh,pain. How can this be explained to the foolish liberal attitude. Many immigrants come to California because of the self destructive policies enacted and maintained by hard line money loving,power loving,immature politicians (most all democrats) who spend taxpayers monies without moral or disciplined forethought of future generations.
The democrat party is much like a rich drunk thief having a night out and spending the cash he/she stole on the people he/she stole it from.
Near as I can tell.