Cheney approval sinks to all-time low - Democratic Underground

give him a 35% approval rating?

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Vice President Dick Cheney: Job Ratings

CNN Poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation. Dec. 15-17, 2006. N=1,019 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"Do you approve or disapprove of the way Dick Cheney is handling his job as vice president?"

12/15-17/06
Approve Disapprove Unsure

39% 56% 5%
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Newsweek Poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Nov. 9-10, 2006. N=1,006 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"Do you approve or disapprove of the way Dick Cheney is handling his job as vice president?"
11/9-10/06

Approve Disapprove Unsure

31% 56% 13%

Another tidbit from Wiki - SCARY

Early White House appointments

Cheney at the White House with another member of the Ford administration, September 1976.Dick Cheney's political career began in 1969, as an intern during the Nixon administration. The intern Cheney then joined the staff of Donald Rumsfeld, who was then Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity from 1969–70. He held a number of positions in the years that followed: White House staff assistant in 1971, assistant director of the Cost of Living Council from 1971–73, and Deputy Assistant to the President from 1974–1975. From 1973–1974, Cheney worked in the private sector as vice president of Bradley, Woods, and Company, an investment firm.

White House Chief of Staff Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld meet with President Ford at the White House, April 1975.Under President Gerald Ford, Cheney worked as Assistant to the President as Rumsfeld first oversaw Ford's White House "transition team" and then later became Ford's Chief of Staff. In what was later termed by political insiders as the "Halloween Massacre" <8>, Cheney and Rumsfeld began consolidating political power by replacing or re-assigning high-ranking government officals. An article in Rolling Stone later summed up the changes as, "Having turned Ford into their instrument, Rumsfeld and Cheney staged a palace coup. They pushed Ford to fire Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, tell Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to look for another job and remove Henry Kissinger from his post as national security adviser. Rumsfeld was named secretary of defense, and Cheney became chief of staff to the president."<9> In addition, Cheney and Rumsfeld successfuly pushed for George H. W. Bush to replace William Colby as the Director of the CIA, forging what would become a long-term relationship with the future president <10>.

He was campaign manager for Ford's 1976 presidential campaign, while James Baker served as campaign chairman.

16% is pretty good for cheney!	The_Casual_Observer	Jan-23-07 06:23 PM	#1
Cheney now less popular than Syphilis	htuttle	Jan-23-07 06:30 PM	#2
Dear Dick, time to follow Spiro...	vcotts	Jan-23-07 06:38 PM	#3
Wow. It's that high? Who knew?	mcscajun	Jan-23-07 06:41 PM	#4
I will die laughing....	Kerry2008	Jan-23-07 06:46 PM	#5
Oh, come on	MrRobotsHolyOrders	Jan-23-07 06:49 PM	#6
Who are these 16%?	Nite Owl	Jan-23-07 06:59 PM	#7
Oil barons, Halliburton execs, etc. nt	LiberalEsto	Jan-23-07 07:05 PM	#8
but didn't one of those drone networks	smtpgirl	Jan-23-07 08:23 PM	#14
15 percent	MonkeyFunk	Jan-23-07 07:06 PM	#9
16% Thought They Meant THIS Cheney	AndyTiedye	Jan-23-07 08:12 PM	#11
If Cheney's A-R goes into the single digits	Silence Dogood	Jan-23-07 07:11 PM	#10
36% of Americans have never heard of Cheney	arewenotdemo	Jan-23-07 08:20 PM	#12
It seems the only thing that could help Cheney	boobooday	Jan-23-07 08:22 PM	#13