Bush Approval Rating Falls to an Alll Time Low (hate to say I told you so, but)

[freedomburns]

The President's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34%. This puts him somewhere between chiropractors and bankers in terms of public respect. On the bright side, though, he's still beating out HMO managers and insurance salesmen — a good politician always makes sure to poll more favorably than his donors, after all.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/27/opinion/polls/main1350874.shtml

(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.

CBS News senior White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that now it turns out the Coast Guard had concerns about the ports deal, a disclosure that is no doubt troubling to a president who assured Americans there was no security risk from the deal.

The troubling results for the Bush administration come amid reminders about the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and negative assessments of how the government and the president have handled it for six months.

In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September’s poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall.

Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.

For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall.

Just 30 percent approve of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low.

By two to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are going badly – the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq.

Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr. Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve.

In a bright spot for the administration, most Americans appeared to have heard enough about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.

More then three in four said it was understandable that the accident had occurred and two-thirds said the media had spent too much time covering the story.

Still, the incident appears to have made the public's already negative view of Cheney a more so. Just 18 percent said they had a favorable view of the vice president, down from 23 percent in January.

Americans were evenly split on whether or not Cheney's explanation of why there was a delay in reporting the accident was satisfactory.


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poll internals:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_bush_022706.pdf

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He's 37-56 in Indiana. Time to stop calling this disaster President.

Welcome back, Freedomburns.

[freedomburns]

Yup, jfern, even the Hoosiers are catching on to what an incomp this guy is.  An EIGHTEEN point drop in one year??  Holy crap, Batman!


From that poll we find:

The poll, conducted from Feb. 28 to March 2, is based on the responses of 501 Hoosiers statewide.

How bad are the results for Bush? For a Republican in a red state like Indiana, very bad. The president's approval rating has dropped 18 points in Indiana since March 2005.

The president's approval rating equals the 37 percent approval rating Hoosiers gave President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, back in August 1994. And the rating mirrors the national view of the president.


http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060305/NEWS02/603050539

[freedomburns]

Don't forget to notice Cheney's current approval rating...

18%

That's right....18%.

Can this picture get any clearer?  What happened to little Anakin?

[Inmate Trump]

If in years from now, the Republican party-after losing election after election-wonder where they went wrong, one might point them to the years between 2001-2009.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If in years from now, the Republican party-after losing election after election-wonder where they went wrong, one might point them to the years between 2001-2009.

I always get a little shocked looking at your username below Clay. Quite teh change, although for the better.

[Inmate Trump]

I always get a little shocked looking at your username below Clay. Quite teh change, although for the better.

Yes...I wish I could make it so 'GWBFan' didn't show up...ah well. 

[Gabu]

I always get a little shocked looking at your username below Clay. Quite teh change, although for the better.

Yes...I wish I could make it so 'GWBFan' didn't show up...ah well. 

I believe that Dave can actually change your username if you ask him to.  Try PMing him with your request.

[minionofmidas]

If in years from now, the Republican party-after losing election after election-wonder where they went wrong, one might point them to the years between 2001-2009.

You wish... I don't see it, actually. Would be nice, though.

And hey, fb, I don't believe you. I don't believe you hate to say you told us so.

[ATFFL]

Go off the meds again? 

[Speed of Sound]

Hey look, it's freedomburns!

Welcome back!

[Jake]

This same topic has been posted by another one of the whacked out Californian trio already.

[RJ]

I wonder where all the naysayers are who cry "Liberal News Source" to CBS's poll...

[Alcon]

I wonder where all the naysayers are who cry "Liberal News Source" to CBS's poll...

Well, considering the party registration sample, crying that wouldn't be too off-base.  However, CBS' poll has never shown a huge bias, and certainly this sampling error (if it was an error, which I strongly suspect) was probably not intentional.  It happens.

[Gabu]

I wonder where all the naysayers are who cry "Liberal News Source" to CBS's poll...

Well, considering the party registration sample, crying that wouldn't be too off-base.  However, CBS' poll has never shown a huge bias, and certainly this sampling error (if it was an error, which I strongly suspect) was probably not intentional.  It happens.

How would one intentionally introduce bias by deliberately oversampling a certain demographic when one is using random phone calls as a means of getting the sample?  It seems to me that anyone who actually does such a thing should be commended for their extra effort.