john kerry only 53%. ouch.
He's had ups and downs in this poll but he's always been between 51-57% approve and 38-43% disapprove. The problem is he can't just go back to the senate after 2004 and pretend as if everything is as usual. He's never going to be able to shake the loser image that he acquired after 2004. In many ways it's better not to run at all than to run unsuccessfully ( a study of perceptions of Adlai Stevenson, for example, found that most people thought highly of him in 1952 but more people thought poorly of him in 1956, mentioning things like his divorce which occured before 1952) .
I'm more concerned with why Paul Sarbanes is so low.
