Putting the polling numbers in perspective
         From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@democrats.com>
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Cheney is now seven points behind the public beating of children

http://www.bobharris.com/index2  .  

Thursday, 03 November 2005
 Bush's approval rating has fallen to 35 percent
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/02/eveningnews/main1005982.shtml .  
Maybe America is starting to realize that secret prisons and endless war aren't really the best government we can possibly hope for.
  
 Dick Cheney, in the same poll, has a 19 percent approval rating.
  
 19 percent.
  
 That's two points less popular than cheating on your spouse  http://www.pollingreport.com/workplay.htm and seven points behind corporal punishment http://www.pollingreport.com/workplay.htm  in schools.
  
  That's down in what can be politely called lunatic territory.  As I've been pointing out for years, twenty or thirty percent of Americans believe any insane thing 
http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2003_06_15.html#000779  you can imagine.
 
 Dick Cheney is now 18 points behind the number of people who believe alien beings have secretly contacted the U.S. government 
http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/15/ufo.poll/ .