Sabato's Crystal Ball

Competition vs. Division

October 2nd, 2003

Larry J. Sabato, Director, U.Va. Center for Politics

Bush Popularity Dive
Several recent national surveys have had President Bush slipping to his all-time job-approval low, such as the CNN/Gallup/USA Today poll released Sep. 22 that had Bush at just the 50 percent approval level. Is this unusual, a product of the lagging employment rate and the disaster in Iraq? The Crystal Ball tries to [...]