YET MORE POLLING WOES for Zapatero, even when they are from a government-owned polling organization (yes, there's such a thing in Spain):

The conservative opposition People's Party (PP) is just two points behind the governing Socialist Party (PSOE) in voter intention in a survey conducted by the government polling agency CIS. Since the PSOE won the March 14, 2004 election, this is the smallest difference between Spain's two largest parties. In July, according to the CIS, the difference was 5.5 points.

[...] The Zapatero administration is at its lowest point since it took power a year and a half ago. Widespread unhappiness at the proposed new Catalan statute and controversy over the proposed education bill are eroding citizen confidence in the Zapatero administration. Other surveys taken by private polling firms published in the newspapers La Vanguardia and La Razon actually place the PP above the PSOE in voter intention.

[...] Citizens' trust in Zapatero is clearly falling. 38.2% of those surveyed have "a lot of" or "some" trust in him, much less than the 56.6% who have "little" or "no" trust in him. The CIS survey, taken between October 21 and 28, said that 25.4% consider Zapatero's performance "very good" or "good," while 36.1 said it was "average," and 24.4% said it was "bad" or "very bad."

The silver lining for Zapatero is that the opposition leader, Mariano Rajoy, has still worse numbers. Just imagine where the PP would be with a more popular candidate...

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