Poll: Bush Job Approval Hits New Low.

"People aren't running out of the Bush column, but his support is softening up," said Larry Hugick, who directed the Newsweek poll for Princeton Survey Research Associates.

"He noted that strong support for Bush has dropped in the past month and Bush and Kerry now have about equal amounts of strong supporters.

"Before people are going to jump over to Kerry, they begin to express doubts about Bush," Hugick said. "I think that's what we're seeing."

"Researchers say that another reason Kerry has not pulled ahead of Bush in most polls is that voters still have a relatively unformed view of the Democrat."

It would seem to me that there are a lot of middle of the road folks who don't give a rip about Kerry, but don't want more Bush. And, as it said, there are at the moment equal numbers of strong supporters of both, with Bush's softening.

And, all of this may be a reflection of a bad April, and be moot by the time late October and early November roll around.

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