Cnn.com was doing a quickvote poll, "Is President Bush doing a good job?" 53% said no. That is the unofficial poll.
In a more official poll, 46% of people said that they would not vote for Bush in the 2004 election. However 66% of the people polled said, "Bush is very or somewhat likely to win the election regardless of how they cast their vote." Those numbers are very far apart. It seems to me that a lot of people have lost faith in our political system. The American public has lost faith in its ability to change the system. I think a lot of that relates back to the situation in Florida. So many voters were ignored in that election, people made the effort to go cast a vote, and then their vote was completely ignored. Why would those people think that they have any voice in our government at all, when the Supreme Court has already told them they don't. But even further, I don't think it just causes disillusionment among the individuals whose votes were thrown out, but among many many more people throughout the country. America has a low voter turn-out rate already, causing more people to stop being involved isn't going to help anything. Another interesting article on cnn.com discussed the number of Americans who are moving to Canada because they don't like our political system. It goes back to the disillusionment, if they thought they had a chance to change what they don't like they would probably stay. But they don't believe they have any power, so they are going to join Canada's political system instead.

Another thing that bothers me, is the fact that Americans aren't more angry about the lies coming from our government. We are dragged into a war with little international support on grounds that prove to be false. Yet Americans don't care. I remember the fuss the media made everytime Bill Clinton so much as walked outside the White House. I can't help feeling that the American public is so tired of scandals that they are willing to overlook a lot (almost anything) to avoid more Grand Jury's and Investigations (and especially Kenneth Starr). I think that is incredibly detrimental though. People should be more outraged about out soldiers being killed in a foreign country when the only reason they are there is based on lies as opposed to our President lieing about the definition of "is" or smoking pot. The things Bill Clinton did might not have been good, but they really affected his personal life and not how he ran the country. The things that Bush has done/does, aren't restricted to his personal relm. He is completely changing America's foreign policy. I suppose if I really thought all Americans (or at least a vast majority) would support that change without being lied to it would be acceptable. But I feel that American's are being hoodwinked into something through lies and sensationalism and their own complacency. America has become Land of the Complacent.