Laura Bush doesn't believe bad polls on husband

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WASHINGTON, May 14 : U S First lady Laura Bush today said she does not believe opinion polls showing her husband's approval ratings at record low levels.

Interviewed on Fox News today, Laura Bush said she did not think people were losing confidence in President George W Bush, despite a series of polls showing support for him at its lowest point in his five-year presidency and among the lowest for any president in the past 50 years.

''I don't really believe those polls. I travel around the country. I see people, I see their responses to my husband. I see their response to me,'' she said.

''As I travel around the United States, I see a lot of appreciation for him. A lot of people come up to me and say, 'Stay the course'.'' Many recent polls have put Bush's job approval rating below 35 per cent. One, the Harris poll, published last Friday, measured his approval at 29 per cent, the first time any survey has put his support below the 30 per cent mark. Two other polls published last week put his job approval at 31 per cent.

In a separate interview on ABC's ''This Week,'' Laura Bush said her husband's popularity was suffering because the country had been through a difficult year.

We've had a very, very difficult year, starting with the hurricane last September, but already because of the terrorist attack in 2001 and then the war on terror since then,'' she said. ''He's the one that has to make the hard decisions. And, of course, they don't please everyone.'' Mrs Bush complained that when her husband's popularity was high, newspapers did not put that on the front page. Now it was low, they took great delight in highlighting the fact.

Asked if she thought the media had been unfair, Mrs Bush said ''No, I don't think it's necessarily unfair. I think it's just, you know, I think they may be enjoying this a little bit.''

Reuters

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