The same survey found the President's job approval rating falling to 46% after hovering around 49% to 50% since the November election.

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Pollster John Zogby: "The President has had wonderful opportunities in the past four months to build a majority coalition, but he has not done so. Even with elections in Iraq and democracy spreading in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Palestine—all consistent with the President's goals in his inaugural—the President's numbers have plummeted.

"The good news for Mr. Bush is that the Democrats have no majority coalition either. Even though they receive good marks for healthcare and jobs, where is their alternative plan? They even outscore the President on foreign policy. What foreign policy? We are right back where we have been for the past two years: an evenly-divided nation and neither side hugging the center to get a majority. This isn't gridlock and stalemate, this is the politics of checkmate. The only winners in this poll are the third parties—who would get more votes today than on November 2.

"As for the War in Iraq, our polling just before the war in March 2003 showed support would plummet with the loss of hundreds of American lives and thousands of Iraqi civilian casualties."

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