[jveritas]

In terms of the duration of low polls I agree with you that is has been longer than any period of low approval in his first term. Although I would like to add that these polls have so much biased as you know and I think if we just chose the "likely voters" the President approval numbers will be around 47% to 48%, not stellar but not as bad as these "adults" polls with have much more democrats or independent leaning democrats polled than Republicans or independents leaning Republicans. Anyway I also believe that "He who lives by the polls will die by the polls" if you want proof ask the 1% of democrats with brains about it.

My important point is we should not react with such a fear and remain optimistic. Fear will not lead us anywhere. It is the democrats who should be afraid because of their so many problems and weaknesses, but most of them are too stupid to realize how weak they are and thus they are not afraid but rather get more crazy and more hateful one day after another. This will always work in our favor.

[HitmanLV]

I don't disagree with you. Regardless of my rep of late, I am an optimist. A realistic one, anyway. It's frustrating because, to be fair, Dubya hasn't inspired much confidence in a while. Even his victories (Alito) are muted by his head scratching failures (Miers).

I'd be more optimistic if he gave me a reason to be. That's all.

Hope (and work) for the best.