More Polls Show Falling Approval For Bush
by RonChusidAfter the CBS News poll showed Bush’s approval at a new low, the right wing Bush Worshippers started claiming that the poll was a product of liberal bias and denied that its results were true. It looks like this “liberal bias” has spread all over, including to Fox News, as several more polls show falling approval for Bush.
The USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows “Bush’s job-approval rating is 38%, 1 percentage point above the lowest rating of his presidency. His disapproval rating is 60%. The proportion who strongly approve of him has fallen to 20%, its lowest ever. The proportion who strongly disapprove has risen to 44%, the highest ever.”
The Quinnipiac Poll has Bush’s approval down to 36%.
The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll shows Bush’s approval rating “fell to 38%, the lowest level recorded for him in the poll.”
Even Fox News has bad news for George Bush and the Republicans. “For only the second time of his presidency, the poll finds that President Bush’s overall job approval rating has fallen below 40 percent — today 39 percent of Americans say they approve and a 54 percent majority disapproves.” Among other findings, “the poll shows Republicans have lost ground on the issue of terrorism, and by a wide margin voters now think it would be better for the country if Democrats win control of Congress in this year’s midterm election.”
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Let the campaigns begin. Donations, please.
Let’s just hope disapproval of Bush translates into disapproval of Congressmen who support him.
Evacuee,
I have seen polls where people say they would rather have people in Congress who are NOT like Bush.
The problem is that such generic polls for Congress are’t necessarily predictive of voting as many people may think that they would rather have Democrats in control of Congress but still think their own Republican Congessman is ok and vote for him. We won’t know for sure how the opposition to Bush and the GOP Congress affects the final election results until people actually get out to vote.
The trick for Dems is to defest the Senate and Congressional GOP’sattempt to appear to be back pedaling away from Bush. This goes triple for the ports deal,but I’m sure it won’t stop there.
At least for the incumbent GOP representatives, their Dem challengers will have a voting record to flog them with.
Is anybody doing the same thing for the conservatives as they do for the Liberals – only calculating what % of their votes are Bush rubberstamps? Add their legislation and committee work (or lack thereof) and it will be very hard to get much distance from the Bush.
SInce the purple folks are turning very blue at this point, it will be interesting if the GOP can reverse the color changes with all the slime they are covered in.
I wonder if the GhostBusters could do anything with them.
Bottom line here folks: George W. Bush sucks. It’s staight and to the point; it’s the theme, he’s the issue.
Every commercial, T.V., radio, billboard and newsprint should bring that theme home to every voter.
That me you an example: Port security and George W. Bush sucks. Take that particular issue and campaign on it. The House is ours for the taking – if we’re lucky, the Senate goes, too.
Blue Washington
Sounds like a campaign plan to me!
Blue Washington,
I do think we need the national campaign to keep hitting the disasters of the Administration, but Ron is totally backed up by statistics of how voters re-elect their own no matter how much they dislike the whole.
So if we use Bush as the leader of the failures, we have to link the followers to Bush by how they voted for or against this stuff. And the longer they’ve been in, the more we should look up how they voted on the YEARS of requests by the Army COE to rebuild NO port and MS levees.
It still blows me away. The fifth largest port in the world, considered our most valuable in terms of creating our wealth and sustaining it, and it wasn’t kept in top condition. 90 years after it took us 10 to build the Panama Canal – with really minimal equipment compared to what we have now – and we couldn’t rebuild all of that in time to keep Katrina from destroying thousands of acres, homes and waterways. One of the major uses of the Canal was to move American goods from the heartland out of NO to the pacific. And materials from the pacific to the NO and heartland industries – through the Port of New Orleans.
One of the other things we have to start emphasizing is that mental midgets do NOT belong in Congress or the White House. If you want to have beer with them, keep them in your own state and have beer with them. Send the smart ones to DC. They aren’t the partying types. The country, the government and the world are too complex for the cognitively challenged to be responsible for.
I think the opportunity to take both Houses is real, with a lot of thought, preparation and work. The message could be that Bush can’t lead us any further into the quagmire if he doesn’t have a Congress full of followers.
What the Dems really have to do to win the hearts and minds of the American people is to talk about America’s strengths when under Democrat party leadership (yes and do a little flag waving too ala JFK)and allow the American people to see the negatives of the current ruling party by contrast.
The dems have to get the American people to see and buy-in to a preferred optimistic future while the Republicans continue to use the only tactics they have left that works for them – scaring the hell out of everyone.
Even their rabid personal attacks will pale in the light of a shining future as envisioned by a charismatic democratic candidate. We must offer America a choice, a worldview of endless fear and war or a worldview of hope, peace, and prosperity. I think America is ready for the latter.
Addendum to my previous post:
Democrats have allowed the neo-cons to drag them down to their level of fearmongering and repubs have soundly beaten the dems with their experience in that area. Dems will not be able to scare voters into voting for them. J Q Public needs reassurance, a goal, and a sound plan to implement and reach that goal. The republicans offer a fearful and uncertain future (vote for me or else,) the dems have an opportunity to now to build an attainable dream and repair some international fences. All they have to do is get folks to buy in to the vision
Pamela, Ginny in CO,
I think a national campaign is the correct thing to do. You are correct, incumbents have a built in edge. I’m speaking of the House – I think there are enough Republican seats and open seats that can be grabed to tilt things our way. There’s a strategy to it (looking at opinion polls in a particular district and how close did the incumbent win last time, that sort of thing). I think JK’s KAP is looking at strategy when he asks for donations to certain candidates.
But again, push the Bush sucks theme, GOP corruption in Congress, port security, warrentless wire-taping, Katrina, SS.
This is how the GOP pretty much pulled it off in ‘94. Perhap we could even get the Senate along the way? Perhaps.
Oh yeah, the DEMs could campaign against Hillary, like the GOP did against Hillary-Care in ‘94! HAHAHA – I forgot, she’s a DEM, isn’t she? I can’t tell sometimes!