Bush’s ‘problems’ take their toll among core supporters

Approval for President George W. Bush among white evangelical Protestants, his most loyal supporters, has fallen to a new low, with nearly half agreeing in a new poll that they are “tired of all of the problems associated with the Bush administration”.

The survey, from the Pew Research Center, underlines the challenge facing the Bush administration in maintaining the disparate coalition that re-elected him. Although a majority of evangelicals still back him, their approved has declined at the same rate as the rest of the public.

According to Pew, 55 per cent of white evangelicals approve of Mr Bush, down from the start of his second term when he had 72 per cent approval ratings; 35 per cent have an unfavo

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