[thoughtomator]

I make of it that we're over a year away from an election, and Bush properly (and unlike Clinton) is mostly unconcerned with his poll numbers. Come the middle of next year he'll pander left and right and the numbers will go back up, if they're not there already.

Check out the size of his campaign coffers.

[RicocheT]

"Bush ... is mostly unconcerned with his poll numbers"

I'm hoping it's because he has the bodies of Saddam and Osama down in a freezer and can thaw them out for the October surprise 2004.

[GodfearingTexan]

I hear you both. My thoughts are that this is a sound poll: likely voters, run during the week (not sure what time of day). I can tell you that Bush DOES care about his poll numbers, though. I feel that things are not "well in hand," despite the full faith I have in Karl Rove. I feel that the news on unemployment is spiraling. We need some level of relief for a lot of these out-of-work white collar men. After you stay unemployed for awhile, it starts to make you frustrated.

Reading some of these IT stories, I'm getting frustrated. I think Bush could make some money off this problem by fixing the H-1B thing and doing something about exporting jobs - on the face of it, I'm not sure what as yet. But he needs to make more noise about it, that's for sure.

The media is going to be after Bush even more if they see blood in the poll numbers. Something needs to be done, and I think we can't sit around much longer.

[GodfearingTexan]

I hear you both. My thoughts are that this is a sound poll: likely voters, run during the week (not sure what time of day). I can tell you that Bush DOES care about his poll numbers, though. I feel that things are not "well in hand," despite the full faith I have in Karl Rove. I feel that the news on unemployment is spiraling. We need some level of relief for a lot of these out-of-work white collar men. After you stay unemployed for awhile, it starts to make you frustrated.

Reading some of these IT stories, I'm getting frustrated. I think Bush could make some money off this problem by fixing the H-1B thing and doing something about exporting jobs - on the face of it, I'm not sure what as yet. But he needs to make more noise about it, that's for sure.

The media is going to be after Bush even more if they see blood in the poll numbers. Something needs to be done, and I think we can't sit around much longer.