ROBERT SIEGEL, host: As always, NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr is keeping an eye on the      latest political polls, and he sees some changes in the public's mood.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: After the 1994 Republican election sweep, President Clinton felt it      necessary to announce `The president is relevant.  The Constitution gives      me relevance.'</s>DANIEL SCHORR: President Bush is not at the point of having to remind Americans that      he's still there, but recent opinion polls indicate that he's reached his      lowest point in popular esteem since he took office.  In a Gallup poll,      the president gets 47 percent approval and 49 percent disapproval.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: Particularly on Iraq, his negatives have deepened.  In a Washington      Post/ABC poll, two-thirds said the American military is bogged down in      Iraq, and 73 percent say that military casualties in Iraq have become      unacceptable.  In the Gallup poll, 56 percent say the Iraq War wasn't      worth fighting.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: On domestic issues, Mr. Bush's standing is not much better.  In the face      of statements by the administration and by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan      that the economic outlook is getting brighter, six out of 10, in a Pew      Research Center poll last month, said jobs are hard to find, and 65      percent of Americans say the country is losing ground on the budget      deficit.  On Social Security, it is about the same.  In The Post/ABC      poll, 63 percent believe that the president's proposal for reform would      not improve the long-term stability of Social Security.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: On only one issue, dealing with terrorist threats, does the president get      positive numbers, but then only marginally.  In the Pew poll, 36 percent      believe the country is making progress against international terrorism;      31 percent say the country is backsliding.  And according to The Post/ABC      poll, for the first time in a long time, the Democrats have a 5-point      lead over the Republicans as a party that will do a better job of coping      with the country's greatest problems.  The political landscape may be      changing.  This is Daniel Schorr.</s>MELISSA BLOCK (Host): This is NPR, National Public Radio.
NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that according to the latest polls, President Bush's approval ratings are at the lowest point since he took office. The polls indicate that the president is losing ground on Iraq and the economy.