Bush's Approval Rating in Rhode Island Sinks to 24%

Days after the death of a local female soldier in Iraq, the people of Rhode Island express their views on Bush and on local Democrats in a Brown University poll

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, already at the top of Rhode Islanders' approval scale in February, climbed even higher, from 63 percent to 71 percent. Approval ratings for the other three congressmen also went up: Rep. James Langevin from 59 to 63 percent, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy from 49 to 56 percent, and Sen. Lincoln Chafee from 48 to 53 percent (Chafee is famous in the Senate for breaking from the Republican party on may key issues and for refusing to vote to re-elect Bush in 2004).

Just 24 percent of respondents described the job President Bush is doing as "good" or "excellent."
(Providence Journal)