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Bush in trouble

Pollsters: Kerry aside, Bush is in trouble

Approval rating keeps falling

“He is in dangerous territory now,” pollster John Zogby says of President Bush.

MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 4:23 p.m. ET May 12, 2004

WASHINGTON - Voters may not yet be ready to flock to challenger John Kerry, but President Bush’s continuing decline in opinion surveys — including one released Wednesday — is a clear warning sign for an incumbent trying to persuade the public to rehire him for four more years, pollsters say.

A new Pew Research Center poll Wednesday showed Bush’s approval rating at 44 percent, down from 48 percent a month ago and 58 percent in January. While the poll gives Kerry a 50-45 lead over Bush in a two-way race with a 2.5-point margin of error, his lead narrows to 46-43 when Ralph Nader is included.

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