Results of AP/Ipsos Poll (Bush Approval Falls To 42%)

[Mark E. Smith]

Genrerally speaking, would you say things in this country are heading in the right direction or are they off track?

Right Track 36%
Wrong Track 59%

Overall, do you approve, disapprove, or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?

Approve 42%
Disapprove 56%
Mixed Feelings 1%

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050715/ap_on_re_us/ap_poll_method_1

[wakeme2008]

1. Hey Bushie Going for the 30% :)

Maybe you should check Clinton's approval ratings.

[Ian David]

8. Wasn't Clinton's approval rating 76% while he was being impeached?

Meanwhile, for someone whose war has a "mandate," they can't reach their recruitment goals.

Funny.

Al Queda isn't having any trouble meeting their recruitment goals.

[Stand and Fight]

13. It was in the high 60s. n/t

[Pystoff]

53. High 60's

But I think it went up to something like 76% AFTER impeachment LOL.

[0007]

28. If 'ya use the 7.5% fudge factor, junior is already in the 30's.

[tk2kewl]

34. unfortunately i think 30 is the rock bottom for him

that is the KKK segment of the population

[Puglover]

2. Finally

Murkins are wising up. The only thing I feel is pissed off bitterness. These morons stuck us with this criminal bastard for the next 3 1/2 years.

[hadrons]

40. easy to admit to 'wising up' when you get punched enough

[Demeter]

44. Not If He Gets Impeached

Don't buy stock in BushCo! That's a tip from the horse's mouth (and we know Bush hates horses!)

[yorkiemommie1]

46. my feelings exactly

... i don't know how i'll hold on that long. i feel like i'm losing it every day.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Free Fall............All the Kings men and all the Kings Horses/band aides

cannot patch this MOFO back again....

[krkaufman]

6. His approval won't be dropping much lower.

You're now hitting on the hard-core supporters and those who won't admit he's worthless because they're too invested in Brand Republican. It's going to take a hard crash to break them.

[Ian David]

9. These are the ones who wouldn't impeach him even if it's proven he lied...

about the reasons for going to war in Iraq.

Because there weren't any blowjobs involved, I guess.

Then again, they don't even seem to really care that a gay male prostitute was having sleep-overs in The White House.

[lancdem]

10. I think it can drop into the high or mid 30s

In polls where this info is available, the percentage of people who strongly approve of his performance is just 30 percent or even lower.

[krkaufman]

14. Yeah, I was think "35" is the absolute bottom

I can't imagine his approval dropping below 35.

[lancdem]

16. If the Plame scandal results in indictments of high-level people

Bush may drop below that, to Nixonian levels.

[javadu]

17. What Were Nixon's Approval Ratings During W-Gate?

I think I was 4 years old at that time.

[lancdem]

19. I think the 20s was the lowest

It makes you wonder why it wasn't zero, actually.

[yorkiemommie1]

48. my husband was w/ nixon all the way

i remember telling him that N would be impeached!

[burrowowl]

56. How long did you live with

your husband? Amazing!

[yorkiemommie1]

57. still am

married 31 years.

last night when i mentioned that CA will only be paid back pennies on the dollar the money Enron stole from us he said we should be grateful to get it. did not seem to upset him that enron execs just voted themselves substantial raises.

[MisterP]

39. that's the proportion of the U.S. that wants Muslims to register their

home and work addresses and/or be herded into camps and/or all slaughtered in the Tenth Crusade

[satireV]

31. Very true! Look at Nixons CURRENT poll numbers.

Even today, Nixon gets 24% of the vote for best president.

I'm serious.

[Pystoff]

54. Compared to *

Shit I'd love to have Nixon over these fuckers.

[reprobate]

36. I think the 30's is a possibility. Even some repugs are starting to bolt.

And if the special prosecutor's report comes out against KKKRove, even if there is no indictment of him, congressional repugs will turn like they did on Richard Millhouse Nixon.

[autorank]

4. And here's the reason why, he never should have won to begin with!

A comprehensive explanation with proof of fraud--text and key links

[goclark]

15. He never WON and that's what the numbers are saying

ROVE was in complete control of everything at the time.

Now the PEOPLE are speaking and letting us know who they really elected.


Bush is going down now, it will take a ROVE miracle to pull it out and R?OVE is sinking too.

[autorank]

37. You are so right. I want Clark named VP when Cheney gets it and

quickly elevated when * has to leave "in order to spend more time with his family."

Screw it, these guys need to go.

NEW LEADERS FOR A NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY

[renaissanceguy]

5. Impeach the bastard!

Bring down the whole cabal. Americans want it.



http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues/472476

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.26198687

[Mark E. Smith]

7. Just bought 3 of yr Impeach Bush stickers

Time to dress up the Saturn.

[indepat]

11. 42% approval: what revelations would it take to drop that number to 39%?

[lancdem]

20. More Rove stuff

Indictments will make it drop even more, I suspect.

[City Lights]

12. He sucks across the board!

It's about time!

[Pithy Cherub]

18. The * pResidential Limbo Poll test.

Lower, Lower, Lower - how low can bush go...:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[opihimoimoi]

21. In the last days of WW2 ...Hitlers poll numbers were around 2%

I guess Bush would reach that if given enough time...Hitler took 13 years to set Germany back a whole bunch...

[DavidDvorkin]

22. And that was inside the bunker!

[bluestateguy]

23. Only 51% approval on the handle terrorism issue

5. When it comes to handling foreign policy issues and the war on terrorism, do you approve or disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling that issue?

_Approve, 51 percent (45)

_Disapprove, 48 percent (52)

_Mixed feelings, 2 percent (1)

_Not sure, percent (2)

You take away that issue and he would be in the 30's, and his numbers there are slipping.

[leftchick]

24. this is the one that still freaks me out

wtf is wrong with people? Can't they see and read how he has totally screwed the "war on terra". Except for the Jihadists of course.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

29. Worst case of terrorism happened on his watch

Can't find the people responsible for it. Has nearly 2,000 American troops dead chasing the wrong bad guys. All the while allowing Iran and Korea to become nuclear threats.

Yet a slim majority still approve of this?

[leftchick]

32. and the nuclear material missing out of Iraq

along with literally TONS of high explosives in God knows whose hands? Our borders and ports and airports are not adequately protected STILL!

Yup I feel real safe!

[yorkiemommie1]

49. he's the daddy figure

...when they get terra-fied

leans across the podium, all squinty eyed and determined-looking, talks the tough ( though idiotic ) talk but it SOUNDS good to their scared, ( and therefore not really thinking ) ears.

[underpants]

25. The only thing that helps W is people dying

Charming

[Yavin4]

26. The Base Presidency

Bush is getting down to just his base, and no one else.

[4_Legs_Good]

27. And yet he was elected

How low can it go? I have to think that at best 36% of the people are utterly brainwashed and will never, ever disapprove of him. It's insane, but true. That means he's only 6% above the sheeple rating.

We HAVE to take advantage of this in 2006 and get the House back. Please, please, let's get the House back!!!!!!!

david

[WCGreen]

45. It shows you how weak a candidate Kerry really

was....

I mean, Kerry never gave the middle any real reason to abandon the president....

People are still in awe of a sitting president......

People out there in the great beyond, beyond DU and other activists sites, just don't get into politics as much as we do......

Reagan beat Carter because of the Hostages but also because he provided a well presented choice....

I'm sorry, unless you were one of us who knows from issues, Kerry didn't present a compelling enough arguement to change......

[Toots]

30. "Polls don't mean anything, wait until the votes are counted" D. Cheney

October 2004 in Bend Oregon...Diebold (without paper trail) was responsible for 31% of votes tallied.

[shantipriya]

33. polls

I hate to say this but I agree with Cheney. Somehow at election time, the voters forget everything and vote basded on party line or racism.Otherwise Bush wouldn't have been re-elected. There were numerous reasons ,both grave and not so grave, voters should have thrown the bums out in Nov.2004 and they didn't!

[TankLV]

52. It's not about who get the most votes.

It's about who gets to COUNT the votes!

The repuke secs of state all did a fantastic job at counting - every single one of them!

THIS should be added to "nationalizing" the next elections.

[Memekiller]

35. Remember the LA Times story of W's "surge"?

They didn't even have a poll, and they were writing about how Bush was bouncing back.

Hacks.

[anotherdrew]

38. down you go bush baby

crittical mass is almost here

[deadparrot]

41. Ouch.

By all means, keep it coming.

[enigmatic]

42. Wow

Not even the London Bombings can get him even a sympathy bounce; this is amazing, but heartening..

[mistertrickster]

43. And the bombings in London didn't help his approval at all. Bush's

lowdown poll limbo . . . how low will he go?

[peace frog]

47. Sinking... sinking...

SUNK. Can't wait to see his approval rate slip into the 30s.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

50. Mixed Feelings 1%

That's a story in, and of, itself. While his ratings slide, conversions of the faithful appear to be immediate, with no stay in purgatory where one would grapple with cognitive dissonance.

Interesting.

[mom cat]

51. So much for Bush's bounce from the London bombings. He is bouncing

like a lead balloon.

[RummyTheDummy]

55. But the bad news is.....

We all know what they do, or what they let happen, when their numbers go into a tailspin. God help those who may find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[wli]

59. they're just going to kill more of us for propaganda

A few nukes to thin out his own herds (bet money on blue cities in mostly-red states), followed by enough propaganda to build up a pretext for an invasion of Venezuela, Iran, and maybe Tajikistan or Belarus (the Afghan pipeline has to go somewhere).

Also, consider offshoring of manufacturing in the context of military production vs. attacks on the continental US.

[6000eliot]

58. Not low enough, if you ask me.