Poll: First lady embraced, president not	民調顯示：美國民眾愛總統 更愛第一夫人
A survey finds that 73 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of first lady Laura Bush. Far more Americans think highly of first lady Laura Bush than they think of her husband, a poll released recently said. Fewer than half of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of President Bush and his top aides, about the same number who said that last summer, the poll found. But nearly three out of four (73 percent) said they have a favorable opinion of Laura Bush, the CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll said. Thirteen percent described their opinion of her as unfavorable. The telephone poll of 1,003 adult American adults was conducted December 16-18 and has a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Asked their opinions of the president, 46 percent said they were favorable, a figure statistically equivalent to the 48 percent who gave that response in a July 25-28 poll. In the latest survey, Bush earned an unfavorable rating from 53 percent of respondents. Vice President Dick Cheney earned favorable ratings from 41 percent of respondents and unfavorable ones from 50 percent; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld received favorable ratings from 42 percent of respondents and unfavorable ones from 45 percent. A CNN/USA Today Gallup Poll，which was also conducted December 16-18 found Bush's approval rating -- which measures how well the public believes a president is doing his job and is different from his favorability rating -- stood at 41 percent, while more than half, or 56 percent, disapprove of how the president is handling his job. (Agencies)	一項最新的民意調查顯示，美國人愛第一夫人甚于愛總統。 調查發現，不到一半的美國人說他們對總統布什和其他高級官員的看法還不錯，人數跟去年夏天所做的調查差不多。 然而，將近四分之三（73%）的民眾說他們很喜歡勞拉·布什，只有13%的人持反面意見。這次調查是由美國有線新聞網、今日美國以及蓋勒普公司共同發起的。 此次電話民調從12月16日進行到18日，共有1003個美國成年人參加。抽樣調查誤差在3個百分點左右。 在問到對總統的看法時，46%的人認為“不錯”，這和今年7月25日至28日的民意調查結果大致相當，當時有48%的民眾給出了正面的評價。 而在這次電話民意調查中，有53%的人說“不喜歡”布什。 副總統迪克·切尼得到41%的滿意票，50%的不滿意票；而國防部長唐納德·拉姆斯菲爾德的滿意票和不滿意票分別是42%和45%。 另一項由美國有線新聞、今日美國以及蓋勒普公司共同策劃的總統“支持率”調查也在12月16日至18日進行，調查發現布什的支持率仍然是41%，而有56%的民眾對布什總統的工作表示不滿。支持率和滿意率不同，支持率指的是公眾對總統的工作及其執政能力的評價。 (中國日報網站編譯)