The CNN/Gallup poll found that six out of 10 people believed Monday's hasty handover, at a moment when Iraq remained so perilous, was a sign of failure, compared to just a third who regarded it as a sign of success.
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Of those polled by The New York Times and CBS, 59 per cent said Mr Bush was hiding something in his public statements on Iraq, compared to 18 per cent who thought he was telling the full truth. A further 20 per cent considered the President was "mostly lying".

By a margin of more than three to one, Americans think that the risk of terrorist attacks against the US has increased, rather than decreased as a result of the March 2003 invasion - flatly contradicting Mr Bush's assertions that the removal of Saddam Hussein has made the world a safer place. By a similar margin, those polled say the US involvement in Iraq is breeding, not eliminating, terrorists.

Almost 40 per cent of those surveyed had no opinion of the Democratic challenger. Among those who did, more disapproved of Mr Kerry than approved, a sign that the barrage of negative advertising by the Bush/Cheney campaign depicting him as an untrustworthy "flipflopper" has had an impact.