For one day at least, President Bush was more popular than he's been all year.
The president's lagging poll numbers got a swift boost from Thursday's news that U.S. warplanes had killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted-terrorist in Iraq.
Polling done on Thursday for the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index gave Bush a 44.2 rating, up from 39.1 in the prior days of June and 38.9 in May. The last time the Index reached this level was in December, when it hit 44.3.
Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP, a unit of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, said the sudden rise in sentiment on a range of issues, including America's standing in the world, suggests Bush's bounce is "totally attributable" to Zarqawi.
Bush got a similar jump after the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003.
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Go after employers of illegal immigrants this week and watch them rise again.
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