A New ABC/WP Poll

[Bumblebee]

Bush is at 40%, as in other polls recently but very few support him "strongly," and with only 2% undecideds, the disapproval is at almost 60%, again as in the other recent polls. But here is a real eye-opener which will disturb GOP to no end:

At the same time, the Democrats have an eight-point edge in trust to handle the broader U.S. campaign against terrorism, an issue of central importance to Bush and his party, and one on which public preferences have been unsteady this year. A more consistent weakness for Bush, beyond Iraq, has been the economy: Fifty-nine percent disapprove of how he's handling it, with gasoline prices one major irritant.

Two stories -- ABC and WP. I prefer the ABC write-up.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=2283630&page=2

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080701120.html

[jedr]

1. Gas prices will be the undoing of the repubs in the fall;

A few $100 fill-ups will show the rednecks what we tried to tell them at the last election.