[Anti-MSM]

Bush's approval rating stands at 40 percent among all Americans and 43 percent among registered voters, a small but statistically insignificant increase in the past two weeks.

If the President is at 43% of registered voters, he's probably at least at 45% among likely voters!

[AZ GOPher]

I completely agree. How come WaPo omitted Bush's approval rating from "likely voters"? They published it for all persons surveyed as well as for "registered voters," the latter of which showed a 7.5% increase from the overall surveyed level (to 43%).

Hmmm, lemme extrapolate: Bush garnered an approval rating of 45-46% from "likely voters." That would explain why it wasn't mentioned in the actual article. If it were flat or lowered, you can bet it would have been put in there, with a dire remark such as "Discouraging for Republicans is that the likliest of voters view Bush's performance in office the most pessimistically of all. . ."

[jveritas]

More like 50% among likely voters.