Bush’s Approval Rating Drops President Bush’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January. Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say “things in the country are going in the right direction,” while 69% say “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” This trend has declined every month since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction. Iraq remains a key concern for the general public, as 28% of Americans said they consider Iraq to be one of the top two most important issues the government should address, up from 23% in April. The immigration debate also prompted 16% of Americans to consider it a top issue, down from 19% last month, but still sharply higher from 4% in March. The Harris poll comes two days after a downbeat assessement of Bush in a New York Times/CBS News poll. The Times, in analyzing the results, said “Americans have a bleaker view of the country’s direction than at any time in more than two decades.”
Bush: "However there are certain liberal agitators out there who'd like you to believe that my admistration is not doing such a good job...of course these are people such as Howard Stern, Richard Clark, and the news." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkqrI3IibYI&search=Will Ferrell " So stick with Bushie, and don't vote, and don't listen to liberals, or Democrats, or other Republicans....that make fun of me, or read the news or watch the news.....except for FOX."
so is mr bush getting close to hitting an all time low for a president? whats the lowest, about 22%? is that low a number even possible? i would think that some people out there would still support bush no matter what he or his administration do. i mean nixon had watergate. bush would have to have something come out now that would rival that i guess.
i know this is a massive 'if' but i wonder how things would be going for bush if iraq wasn't such a briar patch. i mean you look at things and you see the economy is very strong as stated by the fed and the dow is closing in on all time highs but bush is getting obliterated.
I guess Sam is going to have to update his GWB moniker. [edit] Wall Street Journal confirms 29% http://online.wsj.com/public/articl...Lul0aQ57xTm63c_3bKREY_20070512.html?mod=blogs
In the same article, but not quoted at the top of this thread: The political situation has not helped some of the more prominent members of the Democratic Party. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who was Mr. Bush's opponent in 2004, had a lower approval rating than Mr. Bush: 26 percent, down from 40 percent in a poll conducted right after the election. And just 28 percent said they had a favorable view of Al Gore, one of Mr. Bush's more vocal critics.
Kerry & Gore's "approval ratings" (who knew has-beens even had approval ratings? LOL, I thought that's why they were has beens.) are declining because they're the men who lost to GWB29 and if not for the mistakes they made we could have avoided the national tragedy that GWB29 has wrought. It has certainly affected my opinion of them. I disapprove!
My God gwayneco!!!! Look!!!! Former president Clinton bests Bush in honesty poll A new poll being reported by CNN has found that more Americans rate impeached former President Bill Clinton to be honest than would say the same of current President George W. Bush. Clinton, who admitted to perjuring himself about an extramarital affair, was rated as honest and trustworthy by 46% of Americans. Bush, whose popularity continues to decline, was rated honest by just 41% of Americans. Clinton also bested Bush by much wider margins on overall favorability, the economy and national security. http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/situation.room/ That's gotta hurt!
i was flipping channels on the AM dial on the way back to the office this morning...heard Pat Gray on...normally pretty conservative radio host, right? yeah, he was going off on the president. talked about how oblivious the white house was to this.
The numbers are pretty much the same from about ten different polling organizations, including Fox News. In fact the only one that deviates is Rasmussen, a Republican polling firm that puts Bush's approval in the high 30s/low 40s. Are you implying that every single reputable polling organization uses methodology that favors a liberal bias? I love how polls don't matter anymore to the hard core wingers. When Bush's numbers were good liberals supposedly comprised the "lunatic fringe." Now that Bush supporters are on the extreme fringe, polls don't matter. Kind of reminds me of how presidents don't have any effect on the economy except when they do. That's my favorite math ever. But this polling hypocrisy is pretty good too.
