I know anti-Thaksin Bangkokians who have only bad thing to say about the capital controls. No they are a very small segment of the population. As you know there are so many little things and I think all these things add to the poll numbers. It is the Bangkok bombings and the southern insurgency which are the big ones though.

Right after the coup, he was at 60%. It dropped to 50% after the Chinese New Year bombings. And now it’s down to 35%. The timing suggests that the drop is due mostly to lack of confidence in his southern strategy, rather than economic mismanagement or his inability to pin any charges on Thaksin.