That’s Bush’s current approval rating according to CNN/Gallup/USA Today. I thought he hadn’t been above 50% in at least a year.
So what’s up with that? It’s certainly not because he’s solved the deficit problem (he hasn’t) or because the war in Iraq is going well (it’s not). He couldn’t even get intelligence reform passed when his party controls both houses of Congress! Indeed the American people must be a little bit delusional. “We voted him back in, therefore he must be doing a good job.” Definitely not reality-based.