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Date: Friday, January 19, 2001 6:16 AM
Subject: [CTRL] Ashcroft approval rising
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>Ashcroft approval rising
>Poll also finds Bush numbers remain consistently favorable
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>By Jon Dougherty
>© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
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>As Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into Attorney General-nominee John
>Ashcroft stretched into Day No. 3, a new poll says Americans are giving the
>former U.S. senator higher approval ratings than before the hearings began
>earlier this week.
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>On Tuesday, the committee opened hearings with contentious questioning from
>veteran senators about Ashcroft's Christian opposition to abortion, his
>pro-Second Amendment views and his opposition to one of President Clinton's
>nominees to the federal bench.
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>According to Portrait of America, 43 percent of Americans now rate him
>favorably, compared to 36 percent Jan. 9.
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>In Thursday's poll, POA analysts said 25 percent of Americans were "not
>sure" how they viewed Ashcroft, compared to 35 percent last week.
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>Meanwhile, POA said, "President-elect George W. Bush's job-approval rating
>remains virtually unchanged."
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>Bush, who will be inaugurated tomorrow in Washington, D.C., has an overall
>favorable rating of 50 percent among Americans, who rated his performance as
>president-elect as "excellent" or "good." Forty-six percent said his
>performance has been "fair" or "poor."
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>"This rating has remained mostly unchanged since the U.S. Supreme Court
>decision on the election," analysts said.
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>Rasmussen Research conducted this national Portrait of America telephone
>survey of 750 likely voters on Jan. 15, 2001. The margin of sampling error
>is plus or minus 4 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.
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>The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold three hearings with Ashcroft
>this week.
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>The featured witness Thursday was Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie
>White, an African-American who was nominated to the federal bench by Clinton
>in 1999. His nomination was opposed by Ashcroft, who called him
>"pro-criminal" in his opposition to the imposition of the death penalty in
>key high-profile cases in Missouri.
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>Democrats and certain advocacy groups, including Rev. Jesse Jackson --
>embroiled in a new scandal of his own -- according to reports on Thursday,
>have tried to label Ashcroft a racist, despite his support for 26 out of 28
>minority nominees as a U.S. Senator.
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