The Incredible Shrinking President

I'm away on tour in Californ-I-A and am blowing $.20 a minute at Kinko's but I thought I should post this:

President Bush's approval rating has fallen to 45%, the lowest point of his presidency, according to a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll. The finding, in a poll of 1,001 adults Monday through Wednesday, is a dip from 52% in a poll taken last week. Bush's previous lowest rating, 46%, was recorded last May.
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Independent political analysts said the drop may reflect opposition to the White House and Congress intervening in the Terri Schiavo matter.
"You have to wonder if people didn't feel that the president and the Congress couldn't be spending their time working on Social Security and other problems," said Charlie Cook, editor of the non-partisan Cook Political Report.

Whatever objections I or anyone else had to the Democrats' silence on the Schiavo bill, this whole thing has hurt the Republicans and may well prove significant to various Senators/Congressmens' political futures (Bugman and the Doctor come to mind).