Americans still don't like their president.

A new poll has him at 33%. And Atrios is exactly right:

Some days I really just can't stand watching the teevee. They still talk about this stuff as if Democrats are on the defensive and the steely-eyed rocketman is going to wow the public with his plainspoken ways.

People hate Bush and hate this war. It's that simple, and it's been true for quite some time.

The TV punditry's default "x-issue is bad for the Democrats" narrative has no basis in objective reality. It's as if the Democrats just didn't clean the GOP's clock in November because of Iraq and because of Republican corruption and incompetence.

Strange.