It's not just they like the job he's doing- I believe Americans just truly like Bush as a person. They started out being prepped by the media to not like him but lo and behold people saw that he wasn't a bad guy after all and indeed one they could respect. It'll be hard for the dems to mess that up.
Unwittingly, you've just opened the window into the Dems 2000 and post-2000 strategery(!). Within the party, they KNEW that, if given time, the public would come to really really like Dubya. Their two chances at derailing him came - first, during the campaign - in trying to paint him as dumb=as=a=post (lacking "gravitas," another HUGE linguistics backfire), and if that didn't work, then - secondly, early in his term - to find some kind of really ugly scandal with which to discredit him. Ancillary among this tawdry pair would be Obstructionism - making sure the "Do-Nothing, Know-Nothing from West Texas" President would be hamstrung from Day One and not get one iota accomplished.
Both strategeries backfired like a fuel-air explosive. Bush shoveled thru several popular incentives in Congress, prosecuted crisply the first stages of the War On Terrah (thankew, Jim Lehrer) and now has made a legacy for himself and the entire Western World in only his 16th full month in office - joining hands with Russia in a strategic partnership and ushering the old Cold Bear into NATO. Presidents DIE for this kind of legacy. X-42(i) couldn't even make a Mid-East peace last long enough for the signers to leave Camp Davey.
Which is causing the kind of absolute desperation you see from Tiny Tommie and the Dems on a daily basis. Every time one of them shows up in public, it's a Press Dialysis. They pull toxins out of their bodies and spew them across the country. And it's STILL not sticking - and it won't, despite what the pundits say. Remember "quagmire??"
I said it here 18 months before the election. Watch this guy. You won't believe how proud you'll be of him as your President. I also said you wouldn't agree with everything he did, but that he is Mr. Big Picture - and you'll like his vision.
Michael