If the president's approval numbers fall in the woods ...

We took a look at Newsweek's just-out post-convention poll, and it looks bad for Bush.

Highlights:

	BUSH in March	BUSH	KERRY
trust more with handling the situation in Iraq	15 point lead	46	46
prefer to handle terror and homeland security	21 point lead	48	43
trusted “to make the right decisions during an international crisis”		48	53

A couple of questions.

• If Bush lost a up to 20% on issues of national security and foreign policy over the last four months, why didn't it manifest itself in some sort of public phenomenon? Stuff like protest marches, e-mails*, posters, bumper-sticker, etc. Or is this a "silent shift" of some sort?
  
  
• Will somebody from the press please interview that 7% of independents who say they support Nader? What in the world is going on in their heads?

* - We're sure that at some point in time, e-mail service providers (like Google's g-mail) will have a treasure trove of data that will be useful to politicians - not just marketers.

posted by Quiddity at 7/31/2004 03:11:00 PM