Gallup: Bush Approval down to 44%

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds a decline in George W. Bush's job approval rating. After standing at 49% approval in the prior two CNN/USA Today/Gallup polls conducted this month, now just 44% of Americans say they approve of Bush, a new low mark for the president. The poll also shows a drop in Bush's favorable rating to 48%, which is the first time it has dropped below 50% since Gallup began tracking this opinion in 1999. Four in 10 Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, which is essentially unchanged from early July. The poll shows continued positive momentum for the Democratic Party in terms of national party identification and ratings of the two major political parties, both of which were evident before the drop in Bush approval occurred.



http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=17584

[AX10]

1. Most other polls show him at 40-42%

disapproval rating: 54%-58%

[WhiteTara]

12. Gallup has been trying to keep chimpy floating

for years, and so, I bet we can assume in truth that the polls are actually down in the 30's because of the +/- 3 or 4 points.

[not fooled]

13. yeah, floating...

...like a piece of shit in a toilet bowl. Time to flush!!! You're going DOWN, a-hole

[dArKeR]

23. Floating in his own ----...

[Lori Price CLG]

14. Yup, time for him to stop floating and *sink.* n/t

[catzies]

2. Great. Couple this w/Crawford trip (again) & stem cell debate (again)

and we have :scared: deja vu to August 2001.

[longship]

3. Don't forget to apply the Margarine of Error

Margarine of Error


For a Gallup poll, take the margin of error and adjust the results towards the Democrat side to get the true result.

If the poll is 44-51 +/- 3%, adjust the poll to 41-54. Remarkable that it then comes closer to agreeing with other unbiased polls.

[K8-EEE]

4. Have You Noticed That FoxNews.com Dropped This?

They used to have a cheery "how's the president doing" link on their front page, LOL, but they fair-and-balanced like dropped it....

[ClintonTyree]

7. Figures......

can't let their mindless drones read the truth.
"Fair and Balanced". FUX News has single handedly made those two words the most ridiculed words in the English language.

[bluestateguy]

9. Fox I think has him at 47%

And I have been told that Fox's pollster (Gorman, I think his name is), is a Democrat. Fox also had Kerry up 2 on election eve.

I think that Fox's polls are no more likely to be off the mark than Gallup, Zogby or anyone else. However, when the polls are good for Bush the bobbleheads on Fox really play it up, while they bury any poll that is bad for Bush.

[K8-EEE]

10. No What I Mean Is It Used To Be UP On Their Front Page

For a long time, I don't know where it went the "how's the president doing' link to the polls....it used to be front and center where as now, you have to serach for it.

[lancdem]

15. Fox's approval numbers are not usually too bad

but their disapproval numbers are regularly too low. I'm not sure why.

[ClintonTyree]

5. Crash and burn..........

you son of a bitch!

He'll always have that 40% of brain dead, died in the wool misfits that hang on his every word. They'll never be able to break the spell the Theo-Cons have on them, they aren't mentally equipped for it.

[Mark E. Smith]

6. Gallup might be a little higher than other polls...

... but it is the one that will get talked about by Big News. And anyway you look at it, 44% ain't good.

[AX10]

27. For an incumbent in his 5th year, this is very bad.

FDR in 37', Eisenhower in 57', Nixon in 73, Reagan in 85, and Clinton in 97', all had a very strong fifth year in office. Bush 05', not good at all.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. It's zero % around my house!

[AlCzervik]

11. i like the 41 better from Quinnipiac but since this is Gallup the real

number is probably more like 36% approval.

[sakabatou]

16. Anything happened in early feb that gave bush 57% approval?

[54anickel]

18. Weren't the "successful Iraq elections at the end of January?..n/t

[54anickel]

20. Speaking of those elections. Whatever happened to the stories

about how they planned to influence the outcome?


http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/17207
The utter fraudulence of Washington's commitment to democracy

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

17. Four in 10 Americans are satisfied...it's a MANDATE! Political CAPITAL!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

HOOK 'em, horns!

Or maybe not.

:evilgrin:

[Jack Rabbit]

19. Great news. And after applying the Gallup/CNN hanidcap . . .

. . . he's really in the high thirties.

[llmart]

21. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.........

I thought he was a "popular wartime president". Geez, whatzamatter Georgie Boy. Things ain't going so well?

Guess we at DU can all say a collective "told you so."

Friggen American public took this long to see through the dunce-in-chief.

[Kolesar]

22. But the S&P 500 is at a four year high

Pessimism in the land and joy on Wall Street.

[Rainscents]

24. I thought a poll done by Gallop/CNN/USA the other day and that poll

shows Chimp rating around 48%... Gallop is such a shill and they can't even keep track of their poll numbers. This is reason why, I don't believe any polls shills poll. These asshole think we all so very stupid.:grr:

[UTUSN]

25. Well, THAT's a Lie n/t

[DanCa]

26. He's really in the mid thirties

The msm is just lying to protect thier fair haired boy again.

[deadparrot]

28. Holy hell. A 5% drop in a Gallup poll? nt

[wildcat78]

29. State by state?

Is this an average of the state by state ratings? I'd love to see these numbers by individual states. I bet here in Ohio its really low. And, I wonder how this'll play in '06.

[lonestarnot]

30. Nope, I'm sure it's still holding at turdy tree and a TURD! n/t

[splat@14]

31. I don't care if its 70% as long as he's in prison.

[yorkiemommie1]

32. georgie must work harder

to get them ratings up... huff 'n puff, georgie, get cracking! make

mommie and daddy proud of you!

[Occulus]

33. pollkatz Z-scores and raw approval images

found at http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com