Vice President Cheney’s popularity has declined fairly steadily since October, and more than one fourth of Republican primary voters think President Bush should choose a new running mate, the University of Pennsylvania’s National Annenberg Election Survey shows.
In October, 43 percent of the public had a favorable opinion of Cheney and 26 percent had an unfavorable view. But in the last two weeks of February, from the 16th through the 29th, 33 percent had a favorable opinion and 36 percent an unfavorable view, a drop of ten percentage points. On both occasions the margin of sampling error was plus or minus two percentage points.
