Bush's Approval Reaches A New Low 31%- Cheney at 19%

[Jcrowley]

President Bush’s job approval rating has fallen to just 31 percent, according to the new NEWSWEEK Poll. Bill Clinton’s lowest rating during his presidency was 36 percent; Bush’s father’s was 29 percent, and Ronald Reagan’s was 35 percent. Jimmy Carter’s and Richard Nixon’s lows were 28 and 23 percent, respectively. (Just 24 approve of outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s job performance; and 31 percent approve of Vice President Dick Cheney’s.)

Worst of all, most Americans are writing off the rest of Bush’s presidency; two-thirds (66 percent) believe he will be unable to get much done, up from 56 percent in a mid-October poll; only 32 percent believe he can be effective. That’s unfortunate since 63 percent of Americans say they’re dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country; just 29 percent are satisfied, reports the poll of 1,006 adults conducted Thursday and Friday nights.

But the new poll carries sobering news for Democrats, too, still on their post-victory high. Just about everyone believes the Republicans lost the 2006 midterms more than the Democrats won it. Presented with a list of factors that may have contributed to the Democrats’ success, 85 percent of Americans said the “major reason” was disapproval of the administration’s handling of the war in Iraq, 71 percent said disapproval of Bush’s overall job performance, 67 percent cited dissatisfaction with how Republicans have handled government spending and the deficit, 63 percent said disapproval of the overall performance of Republicans in Congress, 61 percent said Democrats’ ideas and proposals for changing course in Iraq. Tellingly, just 27 percent said a major reason the Democrats won was because they had better candidates.

http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/bushs-approval-reaches-a-new-low

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. And, as usual, Rasmussen tacks on 10% or so to most other

poll numbers. idiotson is a pretty consistent 41-42% in the Rassy poll.

[MethuenProgressive]

2. Unemployed, students, nightshifters, spanish, military not polled

Imagine how low his number would be if the poll was truely representative?

[central scrutinizer]

3. "Bushco will be unable to get much done"

Halle-fucking-lujah. Everything they touch turns to shit so the less they "do" the better off the rest of the world will be.

[hadrons]

4. 24 approve of outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s job performance

That my friends, so the absolute bottom ... 24%

[Jcrowley]

5. Nearly the bottom but...

Vice President Cheney has never been as popular as the president, but his favorable rating is down nine points this year to just 19 percent.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/02/eveningnews/main1005982.shtml

[Kolesar]

6. Jimmy Carter is at 56%, adjusted for inflation...eom

[indepat]

7. 31% must not care about the fiscal and environmental destruction, aggressive war and torture,

and shredding the Constitution. The Big Dog is correct: the minds of ideologues are already made up, i.e., don't bother me with the facts, my mind, which never had a critical thought, is already made up. :crazy:

Edit: context