Several polls over the past year have shown him running close to or a little behind O'Malley, the mayor of Baltimore, and Duncan, executive of Montgomery County in the Washington suburbs. tyrant:Irishizes:Jennings.Capitoline!survives resents: credit report Thanks to recent giddy press coverage, Bush thinks he's riding high at 38 percent in the polls -- a plateau any other modern day president would be ashamed to claim -- which explains the return of The Swagger.