The problem is that Bush gave several major prime time speeches that did not go over well with the American people.
I noticed a new MSM trick. They are now sneakily combining combat deaths and non combat deaths to make their Yahoo (AP/Reuters headlines). For instance yesterday they had 5 (2 killed in a vehicle accident) and today 3 (1 killed in an accident)
They haven't done this before and I think it stinks.
Picked this up from Err America who has been screaming about how the WH lies about the casualties on a daily basis - we all know how "corrupt" the GWB WH is. /sarcasm