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From a report by Pew Research on the Democratic primaries:

ush's personal image, by contrast, is at the low point of his presidency. His overall favorability rating has tumbled from 72% last April, shortly after the fall of Baghdad, to 53% in the current survey. Moreover, when asked for a one-word description of Bush, equal percentages now give negative and positive responses, which marks a dramatic shift since last May when positive descriptions outnumbered negative ones by roughly two-to-one (52%-27%).

Even more interesting is the detail in the table:

A year ago, positive ("honest") and negative ("liar") were two to one in favor of Bush. Now they are evenly balanced.

This would suggest to me that the Bush AWOL story should still have legs. After all, it all hinges on Bush's word, doesn't it? Along with some documents that seem to be, conveniently, missing—including the crucial DD-214 (back), his separation record.

Drip, drip, drip....