Approval for President Bush in North Dakota is at 43% according to SurveyUSA. That's pretty low for a state that had 62% of the population casting their votes for him back in November.

Why are they so low? Here's what one North Dakota leftist has to say:

Could North Dakota be rejecting the far-right neoconservative Moral Majority nonsense? It would be refreshing to see a return of Eisenhower-era Republicanism - those guys aren't the ones trying to tell you who to marry or willingly cutting 40,000 kids off of school lunches (though they may accuse you of being a Communist).

That's a typical reaction from the left to low poll numbers for the President, but is it true? Are people really getting down on the President because they're rejecting his "far-right" agenda? Certainly these same people knew what the President's agenda was when they put him in office, therefore I think that it is much more likely that the President is polling low because he's not accomplishing the "far-right" agenda Americans put him office to pursue.

I think that's something to remember when these negative polls are hyped by the left. Negative numbers on the President do not necessarily translate into positive numbers for Democrats. Americans may not be very happy with their President right now, but if there were another vote between him and John Kerry today he'd probably win again. And that 62% of North Dakotans would probably vote the same way they did in the first balloting.

Because people can be unhappy with current leadership and still reject the ideals of modern liberalism.