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The survey also included troubling news for Vice President Dick Cheney, whose popularity has slid amid a Defense Department audit of the activities in Iraq of Halliburton Co., the oil services concern he used to lead, and his court battle to prevent revealing the identifies of some of the participants in his task force to develop an energy policy for the Bush administration.
Only 39 percent of respondents felt ?positively? or ?very positively? about Cheney, the lowest level he has ever recorded in the NBC/Journal survey, which has assessed the vice president?s support several times a year since he took office in January 2001.
Cheney?s public image has increasingly come to be seen among Republicans as a possible drag on the ticket, although Bush has been adamant in his insistence that Cheney would not be replaced. A USA Today/CNN poll last month found that 42 percent of Americans ? including 28 percent of Republicans ? thought Cheney should be dropped.
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