If you haven’t subscribed to Gallup’s email service, I recommend it. Today’s alert shows Bush trailing both Kerry and Edwards by double digits in a hypothetical election held today. The poll, conducted Feb 16-17, shows Kerry leading 55% to 43%, and Edwards leading 54% to 44% among “likely” voters. Among registered votes, Kerry is leading 51% to 46%, and Edwards in a dead heat with Bush (49% to 48%, with a ±3% margin of error). By all indications, the jobs issue is starting to really work against the Administration here, especially Bush’s retraction of the idiotic statement claiming that the economy will add 2.6 million new jobs this year.
As the AP wire story points out, Bush is the nation’s first MBA president, and the jobs prediction was not endorsed by either Treasury Secretary Snow or Commerce Secretary Evans, both of whom have been more “compliant” than Paul O’Neill ever was. Things must really be getting bad within the Administration if Karl Rove and Scott McClellan are the only ones cooking up economic policy and press releases….
