Chicago Trib (frontpage): Illinois still sour on Bush

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0505160171may16,1,6246344.story?coll=chi-news-hed

TRIBUNE/WGN-TV POLL


Illinois still sour on Bush
Social Security plan, Iraq war eroding core support in state

By Mark Silva
Washington Bureau
Published May 16, 2005


WASHINGTON -- President Bush's handling of the economy and sagging support for the war in Iraq have caused his support to erode further in Illinois since last fall, when he won re-election but lost the state to his Democratic rival by a wide margin.

Approval of the president's overall performance--41 percent in a statewide Tribune/WGN-TV poll--has slipped even in Chicago's collar counties and Downstate, which were once more likely to back Bush. A similar poll last October showed Bush's job approval rating at 45 percent.

And while most voters throughout Illinois are convinced that the solvency of Social Security poses a problem that should be addressed by next year, fewer people express confidence in the ability of either Bush or leaders of either party in Congress to fix the problem, the survey reveals.

Most oppose the president's plan to allow younger workers to invest some of their Social Security taxes in private accounts, according to the poll.

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