Zogby: Bush Approval Rating Falls To 34%

From Political Wire:

President Bush's approval rating dipped two points in the last three weeks -- to 34% -- "despite the foiling of an airline terror plot and the adoption of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon," a new Zogby telephone poll shows.

Just one third of respondents -- 34% -- said that "the nation is headed in the right direction, while 59% said they think things are off on the wrong track."

Key finding: "The numbers continue to reflect erosion in the President’s political base -- just 62% of Republicans give him positive marks for his job performance, while 38% give him negative marks."

A mere 62% approval rating amongst Republicans. No wonder the GOP is really pushing their bullshit "Democrats Love Terrorists" line. They are in full catastrophe-avoidance mode, and I guess they figure that their base will respond to such a political ploy.

Remember: the Republicans don't have to win these upcoming mid-terms -- they simply need to get close enough to steal some of them. But this might be pretty hard to do if we keep getting news like this during the run-up to the elections:

More Iraqi civilians appear to have been killed in July than in any other month of the war, according to national and morgue statistics, suggesting that the much-vaunted Baghdad security plan started in June by the new government had failed.

An average of more than 110 Iraqis were killed per day in July, according to figures from Iraq's Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue. At least 3,438 civilians died violently that month, a 9 percent increase over the total in June and nearly twice as many as in January.

The rising numbers indicate that sectarian violence is spiraling out of control, and reinforce an assertion that many senior Iraqi officials and American military analysts have been making in recent months - that the country is already embroiled in a civil war, with the U.S.-led forces caught between Sunni Arab guerrillas and Shiite militias.

In fact, it is so bad in Iraq right now that the Bush Regime has abandoned its "stay the course" mantra and is now pushing "win by adapting." Good luck with that.