Bush, New Leaders in Congress Receive Low Ratings in New Poll

[Dracos]

President Bush's approval ratings remain low, while the new leaders in Congress are also receiving negative marks for job performance, according to a recent poll by Harris Interactive.

The telephone poll, conducted Feb. 2-5, found that 32% of U.S. adults consider Mr. Bush's job performance "excellent" or "good," while 67% said his performance is only "fair" or "poor." These numbers are little changed from November 2006 when Mr. Bush's approval ratings were 31% positive and 67% negative.Graphic: Bush in the pollsVice President Dick Cheney's job-performance hit an all-time low; 29% of U.S. adults surveyed gave him positive ratings and 67% rated him negatively.
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[BayCityProgressive]

1. a true testament

of our corrupt bankrupt democracy. Not ONE of our elected officials has national approval over 50%. That is absolutely pathetic. If we had a real participatory democracy both parties would be thrown out on their asses.

[lancdem]

3. It'll take a long time, probably many months,

to see a major change in those congressional approval ratings. No matter what the Dems do, they won't shoot up overnight, or even over a few weeks.

[Benhurst]

2. Pure Harris/Wall Street Journal bullshit.

While I'm hardly a fan of the Republican House and Senate leadership, in fairness I would guess hardly any of those participating in the poll could name either Mr.McConnell or Mr. Boehner, much less hold a meaningful opinion about them.

Such polls are worse than useless, they are misleading.

[mrcheerful]

4. Polls are only as good as the question asked in said poll

ever notice poll questions are spun or twisted so a person answering the poll could end up saying he hated the boy shrub but agreed with boy shrubs policies.

[sallyseven]

5. It is a Wall Street Journal Poll

Duh! What would you expect. VP at 28% everyone else said it was 18%. It ia a biased poll they are after all republicans and only call republicans.

[Dracos]

6. Hardly my favorite newspaper

and I use the word newspaper lightly we all know they are media whores,but I still find the polls interesting.If you are correct and repukes only call repukes then chimpy is losing his base but I doubt if that is true most follow him blindly.As for the Dems in congress they need to get a backbone
and stand up to the repukes I can't be the only one who feels that way.