I've had little luck posting all day. I wrote this post about seven and a half hours ago. So it goes...

I have an interview with former Senator/Democratic Presidential hopeful Carol Moseley Braun waiting in the wings right now, so hopefully the people over at blogger.com will figure out whatever problems they're having.

More information about the President's falling approval rating is now available from National Journal (parts of the poll are available here).

As President Bush nears the 100th day of his second term, his overall approval rating is idling below 50 percent, according to a new Westhill Partners/Hotline poll. The president's handling of key issues such as the economy, Social Security and the war in Iraq are garnering even lower marks.

Forty-five percent of those surveyed gave Bush a thumbs up, but that's a drop from his 51 percent approval rating in February. Now, 51 percent of the public disapprove of his job performance, and a majority of the public (53 percent) said Bush had done more to divide than unite the country during his presidency. On the economy -- cited by a 19-percent plurality as the most important issue facing the country -- 56 percent of respondents frowned on Bush's work, while 39 percent approved. More than half of those polled (54 percent) disapproved of his handling of the conflict in Iraq and almost two-thirds doubt that the Bush administration has a clear exit strategy.

Link.

While the polling that showed Bush falling at the end of last month could have been chalked up to the Terri Schiavo measure (though Iraq and Social Security also played a large role then), this Hotline poll provides the first confirmation that the drop in approval is not merely a short-term aberration. It makes this blogger begin to wonder when the President will begin to realize that it's high time to stop promoting radical policies and move back to the center.