Polls Show Drop for Bush's Job Approval

[Career Prole]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites)'s job approval slipped into the mid 40s in national polls released this week as he lost some support among men and other groups of core supporters.



Public approval for Bush slipped from 52 percent in a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll over the weekend to 45 percent in that same poll released Thursday. A CBS News poll released earlier in the week found Bush's approval slipping six points to 43 percent.


The Gallup poll found Bush losing support among men, self-described conservatives and churchgoers while the CBS poll found a drop among men and Republicans.


The polls come after Congress and the president intervened in the case of Terri Schiavo, a 41-year-old woman whose feeding tube had been removed. The federal intervention was widely unpopular, even with conservatives and evangelicals.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050325/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_polls

[Deja Q]

1. Who cares what you think!

[wildmanj]

17. who cares

pray tell----when do you think the grown-ups are going to show up :shrug:

[yorkiemommie1]

19. he is looking very chimpy looking in this photo

n/t

[UpInArms]

2. also in the Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/11230244.htm

(free registration or try www.bugmenot.com)

excerpt:

But Bush's dip in the polls also comes at a time that gas prices have been on the rise and the president is involved in an uphill campaign for changes in Social Security.

...more...

so was it the blatant politicization of a very personal matter or is it that they are connecting the dots to their pockets?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

10. Possibly...

It is the fact that people are starting to recognize the real issues that affect the nation(Energy, jobs, economic opportunity, the lingering war) and they also recognize that those are being pushed aside in the service of an idealogy that the increasingly find disconnected and, yes, repulsive.

Just a thought...

Hey, when people start to wake up, they tend to wake all the way up.

[Clark2008]

3. Wow! All we needed was the Terri Schiavo Alarm Clock to wake

up the sheeple all this time!

[Randi_Listener]

4. "I've got a mandate!", wailed Fuckface.

[Megahurtz]

5. HA - HA!!!

HA - HA!!!

:7

[Straight Shooter]

6. So, Little Boots is losing support among men?

I guess that's because it's hard to strut like a big ol' macho man on issues like Social Security and trying to save an "animated corpse," as another DU'er referred to the most unlucky Ms. Schiavo, the current political watering hole for the thirsty Republican beasties who find themselves wandering in a fundie desert.

[amber dog democrat]

27. ahh Caligula !

Just like the son of Germanicus the Chimper does seem to be totally unhinged from reality. lets see if he makes his dog a senator.

[illflem]

7. The Schiavo case is a blessing in disguise

The persistent vegetable in the white house is losing support from all sides due to his arrogance.
Too bad it did happen before last Nov.

[XemaSab]

47. This issue is for him

what the Iraq war was for Kerry.

Both sides aren't seeing full support for their cause, so he's eroding in two directions: fundies and libertarians.

[PearliePoo2]

8. Is the commander-in-thief

finally in a free fall? Are people starting to wake up and see this dangerous moron and his cronies for what they are? What's scary is his potential to panic and do something drastic when his polls are slip-sliding away (like a rat backed in a corner).
I gave this article a "5"

[TheFarseer]

25. What we really need

is for people to wake up to load-mouth partisan idiots like Rush and Hanitty and all the other mindless GW water-carriers

[sambird90]

54. rush and hanitty

i know people that live on every word they say. there our generations Goebbels. how do you convince morons that these men are dangerous.

[Career Prole]

9. If the chimp's base turns on him might it start a feeding frenzy?

Got those mid-term elections coming up!

[ECH1969]

11. Chimp didn't have much choice with Schiavo

If he refused to sign the bill or vetoed it and make the leaders in Congress he needs for his agenda look like horses asses which means they would be alot less likely to support his agenda and at the same time it would majorly piss off his base of support for a very long time.

The people to blame for this are the GOP leadership in Congress. No, I take that back, everyone including the dems that voted for the bill are to blame for this, but it would be to our biggest advantage politically to blame the Repug leadership in Congress.

[Laurab]

48. But he cut short his VACATION!

Maybe he didn't have much choice, but by God, he hasn't cut short his vacations for major world catastrophes. I agree that he was backed into a bit of a corner, but when he flew back to Washington from VACATION - he did kinda overdo it. NOTHING keeps his highness from vacation.

He could have made himself look like a fool by staying at his ranch, but he really overdid it on the drama, making himself look like more of a fool (if that's possible). I think he and the GOP leadership share equal blame in exploiting a tragic personal thing for political gain. It backfired on them, as it should have. I don't see the dems as having exploited it at all. I don't think they'll suffer politically like the repukes will.

[teryang]

12. This cynical pandering is alienating Republican lawyers and

...physicians. This manipulative and unethical PR campaign is offensive to the medical profession and also offends those legal professionals under the delusion that we still had a Constitution.

The attack on Social Security and the concurrent Schiavo bullshit is patently offensive to the overwhelming majority for a multitude of reasons. However doctors and lawyers are among the last die hards among the middle class. The last of the middle are being alientated in this totalitarian/class war waged by fraud and disinformation for the corporate rich. A lot of conservatives are saying count me out. Only the dumbest people even pay attention to the news media anymore.

When I hear Schiavo, I say "who?"

Tom Delay is not a thought leader. Neither is JebFRAUD. The average professional person is over this shit and starting to openly criticize the last election and either regret their vote or criticize those that voted for fuckya.

[dxstone]

50. a serious case of the giggles...

"Fuckya"... haha!... love it!

[ananda]

13. does it matter any more?

The Bush WH seems unconcerned about polls these days. I think I know why. They do not feel responsible to the people, only to corporate donors.

It's a neofascist corpocracy, not a democratic republic that we have.

Sue

[leveymg]

21. I'm not even sure the WH even listens to Wall Street, anymore

Chimp boy has been TERRIBLE for equity values. The U.S. stock markets have stopped responding to the massive red-ink infusions from the US Treasury. Schiavo is a metaphor for the Bush Administration and the US economy. Braindead and flat-lined.

The US current accounts imbalance has become so severe that exporters can not continue subsidizing the price differential for goods sold at a discount in the American market. It costs them a third more to sell here rather than in Europe.

Those holding US dollar valued investments are looking to dump them, only there doesn't seem to a safe harbour.

If Bush lets Sharon bomb Iran, all hell is going to break loose. That will not be good for stock indexes.

Something or somebody's gotta go. I predict regime change soon with the backing of a large percentage of the elites.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

14. He's already got his second term, he isn't going to give a shit

If he's remembered as the worst president of recent times with the lowest poll ratings - it won't bother him because he certainly doesn't care what the people think. In four years time:

He'll have undermined social security, strengthened influence of the military-industrial complex, awarded more tax givaways and no-bid contracts to his corporate buddies, deepened federal deficits, further damaged the environment and undermined civil liberties. Even if his ratings fall to Nixon levels, he'll feel "mission accomplished".

[lebkuchen]

15. The RWers in congress do, believe me

Here's hoping they all go down in flames with the Garden Gnome.

[Career Prole]

16. Repuke congress-critters aren't limited to two terms.

And all of them have the same base as *, and owe their popularity at home to being pals with *.
McCain was the only one who ever had significant differences with * and even he became a bushbot during the last presidential campaign.
As I mentioned above, if all you can campaign on is being pals with * and having voted in lockstep for everything he holds dear then that might just throw a big old monkey-wrench into your 2006 campaign...and * hasn't done diddly to S.S. nor is he likely to.

[rodeodance]

18. seems like a big slip to me Bet Rove in on this one!!

[rocktivity]

23. You're forgetting about Jeb

President Mightymouse's sins will be visited upon Jeb's ambitions to follow his brother into the White House. In fact, I believe that one of the GOP outcomes of the Schiavo case was Jeb's first exposure to the national spotlight (which would explain this New York Times article). I say that the more Georgie sins, the better!

:headbang:
rocknation

[byronius]

20. I get this feeling the Muddled will suddenly wake up

and find themselves trying to belatedly expiate their guilt on our side of the Voter Fraud Civil War barricades. Too damn late -- but I guess it's never too late, until we're all dead and gone. Too bad about the irretrievable loss. Humans.

[joefree1]

22. Don't blame me, I voted for Kerry

Sigh, sometimes being proved right is no consolation.


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[lancdem]

24. I just saw on James Wolcott

about Bush's rating being down to 45 percent in the CNN/Gallup poll. Wow!

[Fluffdaddy]

26. I'm so damn done with Polls

Fat lot of good polls done us a few months back :(

[NNN0LHI]

28. Bush approval hits record low

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5630307

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's approval rating has slipped to a new low in the latest
national survey with pollsters suggesting federal government intervention in the Terri Schiavo controversy may
have been a factor along with growing concern about the economy.

The USA Today/CNN/Gallup survey released on Friday found 45 percent of the 1,001 adults surveyed Monday
through Wednesday thought Bush was doing a good job, compared with 52 percent during three previous surveys
in late February and early March.

The president's previous low since taking office in January 2001 was 46 percent in May 2004.

Bush's involvement in the Schiavo case in Florida "may be a major cause" for the 7-point drop, the Gallup
Organization said.

more

[CO Liberal]

29. "45" Matches His I.Q.

:-)

[jazzjunkysue]

44. Yeah, but the testers gave him 30 points for being born to a powerful crim

crime family.

[deadparrot]

30. Here's hoping for a similar trend

over the next 3.5 years (mercy, is it really that long?)

He doesn't care anymore though. If he's even aware that this poll exists, he doesn't give a shit because he doesn't have a selection to win.

[AndyTiedye]

31. Uh Oh, Time For Another TerraLert(TM)

or maybe even another Reichstag Fire

MIHOP

[BayouWoman]

32. Bush Job Approval Drops 7 points

Polls Show Drop for Bush's Job Approval

Fri Mar 25, 2:21 PM ET White House - AP



WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites)'s job approval slipped into the mid 40s in national polls released this week as he lost some support among men and other groups of core supporters.


Public approval for Bush slipped from 52 percent in a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll over the weekend to 45 percent in that same poll released Thursday. A CBS News poll released earlier in the week found Bush's approval slipping six points to 43 percent.


The Gallup poll found Bush losing support among men, self-described conservatives and churchgoers while the CBS poll found a drop among men and Republicans.


The polls come after Congress and the president intervened in the case of Terri Schiavo, a 41-year-old woman whose feeding tube had been removed. The federal intervention was widely unpopular, even with conservatives and evangelicals.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20050325/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_polls

[anarchy1999]

33. Hoorah, and FINALLY!

n/t

Too long and too late, but it is good news just the same.

[Tuttle]

34. word to the wise

avoid World Trade Centers and Pentagons during this lull.

Tut-tut

[Les BOOGIE]

35. We're still stuck with him for 46 months & he can do tremendous

damage in that time

[wryter2000]

36. That's what I'm talkin' ABOUT. n/t

n/t

[libodem]

37. Good!

I'm glad....hope he sinks to Zero..and is impeached along with his whole cabinet

[BuyingThyme]

38. Does anybody know how many points they spotted him this time?

[against all enemies]

39. Ever think it might be the 7% loss could be the religious nuts unhappy

with his response to the Terri case? He is still the king of the morons and there are many to lead.

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. that is part of it

the other is many libertarians gonig WOW... they want to have a say in MY Death BED...

HELL NO

[bluestateguy]

41. Now the Democrats may find some balls

The Democrats seem timid to attack Bush when his numbers are over 50%, but are more willing to take the gloves off when he slips in the polls.

Unfortunately, it usually takes a persistent criticism from the opposition party to drive those numbers down permanently. If the Democrats stay silent many Americans will assume that all is just fine in this country and that Bush is doing just fine.

[Coventina]

42. Another LIHOP or MIHOP is on the way.....

:scared:

[jazzjunkysue]

46. Molli Ivans: "Bush was born on third base, and thinks he hit a triple."

[Roland99]

43. Got my vote for a '5'

[goodboy]

45. nominated....KICK

[yojon]

49. Ut oh.....

Better raise the terror alert-o-meter to red or something.

[dxstone]

51. I'm wrapping myself in duct tape...

Even as we speak...


SOON ALL YOUR BASE
ARE BELONG TO US!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

52. Just the right time for a terra attack!

"Oh, yeah, btw, that exploding oil refinery in Texas-- WE WERE WRONG ! IT WAS TERRORISTS! YAH YAH YAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

[osaMABUSh]

53. Are you better off now than you were 4 months ago?

Memo to America: Kerry was right

[BlueIris]

59. Ha! n/t

[zann725]

55. Question is: "How low can he go?"

Oh hope eternal!

[bemildred]

56. Yippee, 43 for 43, and only going down. nt

[progressoid]

57. One of the first headlines I read today - What a great thing to see

I wonder if the RW hacks will even address this. Probably not - important Terri Shcaivo things to yell about instead.

[malaise]

58. Call me when it reaches

10%. It shouldn't even be five percent if people weren't so easily led by the 'impresion managers' at MSM.

[Glenda]

61. What newspaper for you?

I'm seeing it in the Boston Globe as well

[HockeyMom]

60. 52%?

I thought it had already slipped into the 40s on the basis of his 60/60 tour?