From you own link they say the following a little further down:
A new Washington Post poll published on Tuesday, however, foundBush's job approving rating at 54 percent, and the president was holding a slender lead over Kerry, 50 percent to 47 percent, with independent candidate Nader getting 1 percent of the likely votes.
Why did you pick out the 44%?
See post 39
To bolster a point I had made in a previous post.