Mmm, maybe Startup. Maybe. That does make a certain amount of sense.
On the other hand, another big terrorist attack here in the US might suggest that Bush, for all of his Homeland Security initiatives and spending and foreign wars, has not made us one bit safer here at home in the end.
Support for his handling of Iraq has dropped to new all-time lows lately. He's trying very hard to hang on to the perception that at least he's made us safer from terrorism here at home. If that turned out to be shockingly untrue do you think the borderline supporters would still believe that? I don't. I think it would shake the country to it's foundations all over again, and he'd be blamed by many that now still support him.
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After initially expressing robust backing for the war, the public is now evenly divided over whether the United States military should stay for as long as it takes to stabilize Iraq or pull out as soon as possible, the poll showed.
Asked whether the United States had done the right thing in taking military action against Iraq, 47 percent of respondents said it had, down from 58 percent a month earlier and 63 percent in December, just after American forces captured Saddam Hussein. Forty-six percent said the United States should have stayed out of Iraq, up from 37 percent last month and 31 percent in December.
Support for Mr. Bush is stronger in other areas vital to his re-election, including his handling of the threat from terrorism, which won the approval of 60 percent of respondents.
Even so, just short of a year after Mr. Bush stood on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln last May 1 and proclaimed the end to major combat operations under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished," his approval rating has slid from the high levels it reached during the war.
It now stands at 46 percent, the lowest level of his presidency in The Times/CBS News Poll, down from 71 percent last March and a high of 89 percent just after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Mr. Bush's approval rating for his handling of Iraq was 41 percent, down from 49 percent last month and 59 percent in December.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/politics/29POLL.html
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