FOR WHOM THE BELL POLLS. The president's approval rating takes a dip-from 50% last month to 41% now, a New York Times CBS poll finds. A good 54% believe that the president, as president of this vast, godly and powerful country of ours, has the secret powers to lower gas prices but chooses not to use them just to lose voters in November on purpose. In the matter of foreign policy 47% believe we should sustain Israel in an attack against Iran's nuclear capabilities, while 42% are new found pacifists.