Zogby Poll: Bush Job Approval Plummets To 44%

[Mark E. Smith]

Zogby: 6/23/05

McCain Would Trounce Hillary in '08 Match-up, 54%-35%; Bush Job Approval Plummets to 44% - Iraq Handling at 39%; Kerry, Bush Would Tie if Election Held Again; Just One-in-Four Approve of Congress' Job Performance, New Zogby Poll Reveals.

http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1005

Typical Zogby marathon headline.

Poor McCain. The fundies will break his heart in the Repug slime-time primaries, and he'll get to sit on the sidelines and watch Wesley Clark pummel that fool Frist.

[deadparrot]

1. Meloves the word "plummets"

when used in that context.

Hope you're right about McCain. I don't like the man, but as a candidate he scares me.

[Skwmom]

2. If they repeat "McCain is the candidate" who can win against

Hillary often enough, he'll be the nominee. Clark is the only one who has a chance of beating him.

[UpInArms]

7. so if McCain runs, will we hear about him being a member of the

cheating Keating 5?

http://www.reason.com/sullum/031105.shtml

In 1991 Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was reprimanded by the Senate Ethics Committee for his "poor judgment" in meeting with federal bank regulators who were investigating Arizona businessman Charles Keating, one of his campaign contributors. Ever since then, McCain has been trying to show he is not a hack politician kowtowing to special interests but a man of integrity and principle.

Yet the main principle served by McCain's crusade for campaign finance "reform" has been the principle of incumbent protection, the same goal that motivates hack politicians who kowtow to special interests. In the end, it's hard to see how McCain's crusade to remove the corrupting influence of money from politics is any more admirable than the corruption of which he was suspected in the Keating scandal. http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special39/articles/1003mccainbook5.html

McCain was one of five senators who met with regulators in 1987 and encouraged them to ease up on Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was under scrutiny for risky investment practices. The government ended up bailing out the S&L's federally insured depositors two years later at a cost to taxpayers of $3.4 billion, and Keating served several years in prison for fraud, although his conviction was later reversed because of juror misconduct.

Between 1982 and 1987, Keating had steered $1.4 million in campaign contributions and gifts to the five senators. McCain had received $112,000 of that, along with nine trips on Keating's jets to the Bahamas and elsewhere.

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[Orion The Hunter]

34. RE: 2008 race

McCain my beat Hilary, but too bad he cannot beat anyone in his own party for the nomination. The far Christian right would not have him as its nominee.

[lovuian]

3. Keep talking Social Security Bush don't stop hon!!! lets go lower

Bush keeps opening his mouth and Iraq war continues and watch how riled Americans get when we go into a Depression!!!

Republicans are in for a rude surprise as well as Democrats!!!

Socialism is making a comeback people!!!

[UpInArms]

4. is it time for terra 'lert yet? ........ eom

[IndianaGreen]

5. McCain will never win the GOP nomination

the Jesus people will never accept him as their nominee.

[billbuckhead]

10. i voted for John McCain in the Republican primary in 2000

Anyone who assault weapons zealots and gun dealers hate can't be all bad.

<http://www.americansforgunsafety.com/the_issues_bill.asp>

[Dover]

6. Just about where it was prior to 9/11 isn't it?

Gee, how will he get out of it this time...?

[BillZBubb]

8. "Kerry, Bush Would Tie if Election Held Again"

That tells you all you need to know. Nothing has changed. Half of the people in this country are absolute morons.

[MidwestTransplant]

9. Pretty pathetic that Kerry only ties at this point. Especially since

Zogby had him winning the election.

[BlueIris]

17. I really don't know what to think about Zogby at this point.

Mainly because of this factor.

[DanCa]

11. only at forty four percent?

How much more can possibly go wrong before the sheeple will wake up.
44 percent is to frickin high. I wish i had the drugs that the republicans have

[marmar]

12. LOL

"I wish i had the drugs that the republicans have"

'Cause it's clearly some mind-altering shit!!!

:smoke:

[KansDem]

31. Just wait. If Rush beats the rap...

He'll be glad to meet you with his trunkfull in any parking lot of your choice.

[Melynn]

13. McCain and Hillary are media darlings

I question if the base of either party will vote for them in the primaries.

I also question the fact that Bush's job approval rating is 44%. I think that Bush's job approval rating is a lot lower.

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. McCain will be the one to beat, but why do the GOP and pollsters keep

harping on Hillary Clinton as the likely Dem presidential candidate? Also note that the man - John McCain - is called by his last name, as a mature professional, but the woman is called by her first name, as an immature amateur. (What is Barbie's last name?) Much as I would hate to see her as the Dem candidate, I'm really irritated at the condescending way she is named in the press. She's not a high school kid, she is a US senator.

[anitar1]

19. They are denigrating Hilary because they loathe

her. Also they think they stand a better chance of winning if she runs.They have demonized her so much that their base believes every word of it.

[fasttense]

20. Just the corporate media doing its best to degrade women. n/t

[bushisanidiot]

28. This is their chance to demonize women who work outside of the home

they are frothing at the mouth to call her a "bitch" out in public, accuse of her being a lesbian, accuse her of committing murder.. every desperate outrageous thing they can think of. it's like when i played basketball with my brothers-in-law who didn't really want me to play.. they through the ball a lot harder at me and threw elbows that they don't throw at each other to intimidate me into thinking i couldn't handle the heat.

repukes hate women.. period. even the repuke women hate women. go listen to how they talk about women at freepland. ANY news story where a woman has been raped, it's her fault. ANY news story where a woman was beaten to death by a man who didn't want to pay child-support.. it was the woman's fault and the systems fault for making the man support his children. they do honestly hate women.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

33. Clinton vs McCain would probably score higher points

as opposed to Hillary vs McCain. I still believe many would vote for Senator Clinton because they would see a twofer presidency.

[K8-EEE]

15. Ha Ha Ha, McCain Can't Get The Nom, The RW Wacks Don't Like Him

They will only nom freaking neocon wackjobs.

[HockeyMom]

21. You are right

Freepers don't like McCain. They are calling him a RINO and CINO.

Many are saying if it is a choice of him or the "hilderbeast", they will stay home. Hmm, that might be GOOD.

[Erika]

16. How low must Bush reach before we impeach him?

He's let down every segment in America except for the rich.

[Rainscents]

18. Yea, right wing wacko owns die-bold machines...McCain, you're toast

before you even get start it.
I think it'll be between Jeb or Frist for Republicans and Hilliary or Clark for Dem's for '08.

BTW... before this is all over, Bush's rating will be in mid to lower 30's. This is my gut instant.

[Massachusetts]

22. "Zogby Poll: Bush Job Approval Plummets To 44%"

Who the Hell are the 44% that support this clown?

[BlueIris]

23. The solid crop of still-blind Republicans in this country, I guess.

Those folks are still not quite ready to give up the ghost. The illusion of Bush's impossible victory continues to allow them to cling to their irrationabl prejudices, including the falsehood that they've backed a good horse for our, and their children's future.

[underpants]

24. That's because of the Dems moving the goalposts

or some BS like that

[bspence]

25. Kerry blew it, and so did the Democratic leadership

Can we somehow get a decent candidate? One who can raise issues and excite people?

Let me say it now: If Hilary gets the nomination, we're going to lose in 2008. Even if she doesn't run against McCain. She has zero charisma, and I never get a feeling of honesty from her. Not that I think she's dishonest, but I get the vibe that she's just being a carefully worded politician. I don't like that and voters don't like that.

[ckramer]

27. Rerun pre-2004-primary Howard Dean type of candidate

Democrats need a gutsy new leadership.

The question is who ?

[AzDar]

26. See, Zogby..you can't have it both ways. If you were so astonishingly

WRONG about the 2004 Presidential election polls (yeah, right)...We reserve the right to discount ANYTHING that comes from your organization. I believe it's called a 'credibility problem'.

[ckramer]

29. Unfortunately

there are still 44% of the Americans who are duped under the anti-progress republican dark forces.

[marbuc]

35. Considering 30 to 35 percent are

neocons or theocrats that will always buy into the anti-gay marriage, anti-woman/minority, anti-science, with-us-or-against rhetoric, these numbers are encouraging. We are making inroads in mainstream America, and need to continue to reach out to rational folks.

[lonestarnot]

30. Oh but I am still sure it's just turdy tree and a turd!

[Supersedeas]

32. wwwwwwaaaaaa, I want my radical Judicial nominees and I want them now!!