E Pluribus Unum

by Mark Adams

Hectic weekend to say the least, dinner for 35, being a bunny, wife's B-Day, filling in for a sick employee . . . but the blogs must roll!

Ara loves him some polls, so here's the latest via Mystery Pollster channeling Gallup and providing a state-by-state map that is so blue it could be mistaken for the Gulf of Lowered Expectations or the Sea of Mendacity:

President Bush's job approval rating returning "to last month's all-time low": 36% approve, 59% disapprove.

Deep inside the numbers is what's really interesting. Another poll reported by Firedoglake shows overwhelming, frothing hatred of Bush by almost half the nation.

The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll showed 47 percent of voters "strongly" disapprove of Bush’s job performance, vs. 20 percent who said they "strongly approve."

These numbers are too close to the numbers reflecting our lack of optimism for the Iraq misadventure to be any kind of coincidence with Gallup saying 57 per cent believe Iraq is not "winnable."

Once it became all too clear that we lost the "Hearts and Minds" of the Iraqi people, Bush lost the hearts and minds of his own citizens.