The Zarqawi killing bump is apparently wearing off. Details at Rasmussen Reports (a firm favored by GOPers and said to be the most accurate polling firm in 2004). REMINDER AGAIN: Polls are snapshots and in the long term like see saws.
Will going after the evil New York Times rally the base and get the numbers back up?
A USA Today/Gallup poll taken Friday through Sunday found Bush’s numbers going slightly down and a majority of Americans wanting Congress to pass a resolution that outlines a plan for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. (In administration/GOP speak that means a majority of Americans advocate “cutting and running.”)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.