Bush Approval Rating Falls to 44% in U.S.

[struggle4progress]

Angus Reid Global Scan) – George W. Bush continues to lose public backing in the United States, according to a poll by Scripps Howard News Service released by Ohio University. 44 per cent of respondents approve of the president’s performance, a five per cent drop since February. <snip>

Polling Data

In general, do you approve or disapprove of the job George W. Bush is doing as president?

Jul. 2005 Feb. 2005

Approve 44% 49%
Disapprove 51% 44%

Do you think America basically is headed in the right direction or the wrong direction?

Jul. 2005 Feb. 2005

Right direction 39% 45%
Wrong direction 45% 41%

Source: Scripps Howard News Service / Ohio University
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,016 American adults, conducted from Jul. 5 to Jul. 19, 2005. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8213

[Demeter]

1. Not As Good As Blair's Drop

14% in two weeks. Now that's the record to beat!

[against all enemies]

20. Obviously needs to spend more on makeup.

[jojo54]

2. The difference is just not good enough for me yet. n/t

[54anickel]

3. I cannot believe it's only dropped 5% since Feb. Are people just that

dense, are they not paying attention to any news?

[struggle4progress]

6. Well, about 50% of the public doesn't pay enough attention to politics ..

.. to think it's worth their time to vote, so enlightened attitudes towards Boy George may spread slowly ...

[UpInArms]

9. I had a fight (verbal) with a moron yesterday

first he hold me he was retired AF and had one son in the AF and one in the Navy.

I told him that was nice - I just wished we had an administration with better foreign policies.

He then informed (?) me that this was the best foreign policy that we had in 30 years.

After I got through laughing - I told him they were more corrupt than any other administration ever.

He told me that he was unhappy with Clinton because in 1992 his Social Security was messed with.

I said it wasn't Clinton in '92 because he didn't take office until January of '93, and that he was talking about the first Bush administration.

I was then informed (?) that Clinton was in office from 1990. (?????)

I got two (count them 2) bystanders to tell him he was incorrect - but he continued to go on and on about how I was wrong.

Finally, I looked at my watch (he had been blowing his boozy breath on me for about 20 minutes) and informed him that it was 11:00 in the morning and he had obviously already had far too much to drink, that he needed to sober up, learn the facts and get his life together.

(edited for clarity)

[54anickel]

18. You were too kind UIA. But his "state of mind" could explain the poll

numbers. Perhaps a large portion of that 44% are IN A DRUNKEN STUPOR!

[UpInArms]

23. I guess I'll have to attempt a statistical usage

for the stupids - alcohol consumption must definitely be up in that demographic.

:rofl:

Perhaps this is how they can continue to lie to themselves and argue with absolute conviction of their stupidity.

THEY'RE DRUNK!

:rofl:

Won't the detox units be busy after this maladministration gets their prison sentences?

[izzie]

12. They think what they want. Turn on c-span it is wild

Those people only think how they wish to think and a fact never gets in their way.:dilemma:

[yorkiemommie1]

13. i've seen 'em skip over the front page and go right to

SPORTS. My coworker can tell you that state of the baseball teams but not anything else. when i tell her that i read the foreign press, all she asks is , " BUT do they make us LOOK BAD? "

She's the only one, though. The rest are all SOOOO anti-BUSH.

[nolabels]

28. I mostly skip the news and head to the sports section

It is impossible for me to read the latest in propaganda for over five minutes. It gives me that queasy feeling then comes the :puke:

Besides it is not fair for the innocent people around me when I become violently angry about the content in the twisted B.S. produced by some corrupt corporation hundreds and thousands of miles away

[yorkiemommie1]

33. yeah but you know what's going on

this person does not want to know. she picks me up for work and turns off the hateradio before i get in.

i mainly get my news from here on DU.

[nolabels]

40. I know what's going on?

That is an untrue statement. What I know is what is not going on, the truth. It's easier to assume most everything you encounter has fraud or lie factor in it. Sifting out things that sound reasonable and make sense, which evidence and collaborating witness want to give credence is only a starting point.

I don't read the news in my local rag because I proved to myself over a period of YEARS they fucking lying on purpose.

Engaging your coworker on her beliefs and vis-a-versa could also be enlightening for one or both parties, being you are both stuck in the car together.

[yorkiemommie1]

45. she won't listen

she gets up and walks away or just dummies up in the car.

[nolabels]

49. It sounds like you want to preach to her

Listen to her, put yourself in her place. Try to think the things she is thinking and then bounce them ideas off her. Most of all forget the politics if you can. For some politics are a polite as subject as sex or romance. Some people get these far fetched ideas in their head and don't want them to be known for fear of being hurt or ridiculed by others for them views. You probably are all ready on the other side of the views she sees safe and the only way will ever change that is if you lay it aside. In other words you might find it easier breaking into Fort Knox to steal gold than getting know too much about her.

Trying to change others when you are unwilling to change your self never really works in the end anyway. I try to get to know them when I can and then if that place is there for that little bit of charity I can give it. There is that conservative verse, 'Charity is most effective when used least as possible' to paraphrase. Sounds painful but sometimes the only way you might get satisfaction (if you need it) is to put all your marbles in the game

[yorkiemommie1]

51. i've never talked politics w/ her

never. not even during the election.

this is just what i observe her doing. we have a very small and closeknit staff and if the conversation goes to * she is gone. her interests lie in things like the scott peterson trial, game shows and her church.

some people, like my dh, just are not reachable.

[indepat]

4. The 44% must like spiraling twin deficits and debt, pre-emptive war(s),

the USA Patriot Act which guts the Bill of Rights, unilateral abrogation of international treaties, despoilment of the environment for corporate profit, loss of international prestige and goodwill, a highly regressive tax scheme, a weak jobs market, a greatly weakened dollar, the Downing Street memos, the Rove saga, and the prospects of perpetual war under a "war" president.

[NNN0LHI]

5. 44% in U.S. are smoking crack n/t

[DBoon]

7. I would divide the 44% into these 3 groups:

1. Hardcore right wing ideologues
2. People whose personal fortunes are doing very well, and don't care/aren't affected by world events.
3. People who don't care about politics, don't pay attention, and just like to give nice upbeat answers to the person on the phone asking all those questions.

or:
1. Deluded
2. Self centered
3. Clueless

[CookieD]

10. Well said. n/t

[PassingFair]

11. The Three S's

Superstitious
Selfish
Stupid

Take one, two or a combination of all three; voila! A * voter!

[iconoclastic cat]

26. I swear, I'm going to put that on a bumper sticker.

"Superstitious, selfish, stupid...voila, a Bush voter!"

I might have to explain "voila" isn't a stringed instrument.

[against all enemies]

21. Bush is all three groups. He is impressive!

[countmyvote4real]

25. And they have to have some sort of phone service. n/t

[Roland99]

47. I'd say you hit the nail pretty squarely on the head there

I guess the radical religious extremists fall into #1.

[Patty Diana]

43. IT'S THE LYING, CONNIVING, DECEIVING, FASCIST, CORPORATE

US MEDIA THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS NUMBER. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, I BELIEVE IS TO EXPOSE THE MEDIA. AFTER THAT EVERYONE WILL BE ON THE NET LOOKING FOR THE TRUTH THAT FITS THE FACTS ON THE GROUND. IT'S A TOUGH ISSUE TO EXPOSE THE MEDIA FOR WHAT THEY ARE___IT'S JUST SO UNAMERICAN, THAT THIS MEDIA MANIPULATION HAS IN EFFECT RIPPED THE VERY HEART OUT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. PEOPLE ARE CATCHING ON, BUT NOT ENOUGH OF THEM YET.

[NNN0LHI]

54. Thats the kind of yelling I like a lot

Great spirit there. I hope it catches on.

Don

[Lord_StarFyre]

8. Can I Say to those just now waking up to Dumbshitula

...Welcome to the party Assholes...

Geez, you'd have needed to be in a coma due to brain death since Novemeber 2000 not to realize what a complete disaster this knuckle dragging chimp has been.

How many of these recent wakees were blissfully parroting the bullshit from the Swift Boat Liars just a mere 10 months ago?

[Skittles]

55. yeah

I cannot even feel happy about it because I am damn bitter - look at the cost of these folks' ignorance

[bluestateguy]

14. It's going to take awhile to get it down below that

We're dealing with some of the real Kool-Aid drinkers here, and it's going to take a lot more bad news to get that number down into the low 30's where I want it.

[area51]

41. low 30's

If the republinazi media would actually tell the truth, I would expect the Kool-Aid drinkers to only number 10%. :evilgrin:

[ConfuZed]

15. Time for another terra attack...

Remember he was down when the bombing in london happened.

[54anickel]

16. Nah, IF there was a link between the London bombings & Beelzebush

(and that's a huge IF with lots of tinfoil around it) there's no way the Poodle can take another one since he's down 14% in 2 weeks.

[bassman79]

24. It's coming don't worry...

Let's just hope they don't nuke a city.

Just to clarify:

They = BushCo

[cornermouse]

17. Still too high.

[reprobate]

19. And yet most people I talk with are terribly angry with bush and repugs.

I seem to sense an anger building up in most people I talk to. I no longer run into bush sympathisers anymore. Most working people I talk with have a seething anger at what has happened to the nation sinde 2000.

[Straight Shooter]

22. Also, much anger from small business owners.

There is a local store I cannot even go into anymore because the owner is so angry with bush, and apparently I'm one of very few people who even realize what a disaster he truly is, that the last couple of times I've been in there she went on a 30-minute rant about how bush is destroying her livelihood and her future with his policies. Plus, she's Christian and thinks he's full of sh*t.

I wish I had 30 minutes of time to give her just for dropping in, but I don't. If she were on the Internet, I'd send her to DU :7

[Iowa]

34. They're still out there in my area...

There are still a ton of yellow ribbon car magnets, although it has decreased. One thing I have noticed is a dramatic decline in the big US flags attached to both the right and left front car windows. Those are the ones that crack me up the most. I've always thought those flags were sported by the guys with the very tiniest appendages; those flags were like Viagra to them. Instant manhood. It must have been exhilarating while it lasted.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

27. I think that 44% represents "cooked books." That CAN'T be accurate.

[LisaL]

29. If people had any sense, Bush would be close to 0.

[iconoclastic cat]

30. We need to make sure that these people take out their anger on Congress.

Specifically, the Repubs and DINOs.

[Chicago Democrat]

31. 44% eat shit and like it!

(humour)

[jsamuel]

32. Isn't the 51% the bigger deal here?

Isn't this the first national poll to show that the MAJORITY of Americans DISAPROVE of Bush?

[Chicago Democrat]

35. nope.. been below 50 all year

sucks and keeps on sucking

[jsamuel]

37. huh?

51% Disapprove... that hasn't been that way from what i understand, it used to be under 50. So it is the first that shows a majority. Maybe I just misunderstood your post.

it should read "yep...been below 50 all year"
or
it should read "nope...been above 50 all year"

[Chicago Democrat]

39. my bad

foggy here

[McCamy Taylor]

36. 51% disapprove? Can we get a recall?

[dchill]

52. George Bush = Gray Davis?

n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. 96% of those polled in July felt strongly enough

to either approve or disapprove of Dumbyass, as opposed to 93% of those polled in February.

Interesting, though, that only 84% felt strongly enough in July to determine that we're either headed in the right or wrong direction. In February, 86% percent were certain enough to answer the question.

Something just doesn't seem right about these figures.

[DeepModem Mom]

42. kick

[Rambis]

44. Drunk and stupid is no way to go through life boy!

I hope to God they are drunk because they might sober up some day. There ain't no cure for stupid.

[louis-t]

53. Oooh, you struck a nerve.

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." Dean Wormer.

[maxrandb]

46. Hey, Dems in the Senate

This is a pretty good indication that fighting back works against these pricks.

It's also a good indication the Mr 40% doesn't get "whoever the hell he wants" on the Supreme Court for life.

"Attention Joe Lieberman, Calling Holy Joe, Hello, Hello, anyone home there Joe Mo?"

"S-T-A-R-T

A-C-T-I-N-G

L-I-K-E

T-H-E

O-P-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N

P-A-R-T-Y!!!!"

[natrat]

48. fuck this shit-it's been falling from 44 for months

[underpants]

56. Your right-it has been at or below 44 for a while

Basically since the Schiavo thing blew up in their faces.

Several polls have had W at 42 over the last month at least.

[Zorra]

50. It's the war. n/t