Lowest Rating for Bush in Eighth September Poll (41% approval FOX poll)

[struggle4progress]

<snip> ... The current approval rating of 41 per cent is the lowest for the sitting head of state in a national Opinion Dynamics/Fox News poll. Bush had his best showing in November 2001, with an approval rating of 88 per cent.

Earlier this month, Bush also registered all-time lows in surveys released by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Zogby International, Ipsos-Public Affairs/Associated Press, Newsweek, Hart/McInturff/Wall Street Journal/NBC News, TNS/Washington Post/ABC News and New York Times/CBS News. <snip>

Do you approve or disapprove of the job George W. Bush is doing as president?

Sept. 14 Aug. 31 Jul. 27 Jul. 13
Approve 41% 45% 47% 47%
Disapprove 51% 50% 44% 47%

Source: Opinion Dynamics / Fox News
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 900 American registered voters, conducted on Sept. 13 and Sept. 14, 2005. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/9028

[goclark]

1. Fox always ups the numbers --he is in the toilet and they

know it.

[marmar]

2. Absolutely...

The Fox poll reflects Fox reality. The real numbers are clearly really bad. Shrub's mad PR dash this week apparently didn't work.

[goclark]

7. It's FLUSH time for the Chimp

:hurts:

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

15. sung to the tune of "Springtime for Hitler" ....right?

Flush time for Chimpy and Che--e--Ney,

[geckosfeet]

12. Hmmph. The numbers are good. IMO he can't get to 0 fast enough.

[wakeme2008]

3. They and Gallup over count Repug voters

so IMHO I subtract 5 points from both :)

[merwin]

19. For all polls such as this, look at it as the number of points + or -, not

the actual score.

Different polling companies use different methodology. Fox bends the numbers towards the high end, but they lose the same amount of points every poll.

[Mark E. Smith]

4. They Forgot the ARG Poll!

36% approval rating, and the first poll to show Kenny Bunkport's precipitous drop from the upper 40s..

http://americanresearchgroup.com/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. You know he's down bad

When faux news rates him this low.

[Arkana]

6. If Faux is admitting to 41%, he's REALLY in the toilet.

I would guess around 34-35%.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

14. you're right! another LBN thread has him at 35% right now!........... N/T

[WePurrsevere]

8. Since this was done before his speech on Thursday...

I wonder how much lower they actually are now especially if Fox over samples and slants towards Republicans.

[aquart]

10. Which is no longer safe for them to do, poor dears.

[darkism]

18. Yes, must remember this is before the bullshit speech

EDIT: Nevermind, it didn't "give the fuckstick a bounce." Yay!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1789093&mesg_id=1789093

[skids]

9. Chart! Chart!

Someone post "The Chart" please! :bounce: I like steep slopes. Looking forward to watching Diebold stock crash tomorrow.

[spooky3]

11. go to www.pollkatz.homestead.com

and click on the link to the chart you want to see

[Straight Shooter]

13. Many people said they voted for bush so he'd clean up his mess.

Do you remember all those people who thought that bush was making a mess of things and it was up to him to clean it up? Well, guess what, suckers, bush never cleans up his messes. We told you so.

That is a contributing factor to his decline in approval. Those suckers are finally catching on that bush can't do anything right.

[autorank]

16. struggle, you'll love this from Rasmussen -- approve 35%

http://rasmussenreports.com/2005/Katrina_September%2018.htm

You read this Excellent + Good = Approve: Fair + Poor = Disapprove

35% approve of this guy, Wow, that's high!

Great post.

[enigmatic]

17. 35%

He's even starting to lose the cultists, too. Ouch.

[struggle4progress]

23. The unsinkable Titanic. eom

[Erika]

20. Aides afraid to tell him he had to cut his 5 week vacation short

by two days had a lot to do with it.

[struggle4progress]

24. Best if ain't nobody gits between W and his vacation-time.

He was back at Camp David this weekend, y'know:

Published Sunday, September 18, 2005
Bush Paints Hopeful Picture for Storm Recovery in Speech
By JENNIFER LOVEN
The Associated Press

... He was spending the weekend at Camp David, Md. -- the first extended down time since Katrina struck nearly three weeks ago ...
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050918/NEWS/509180420/1039

[Roy]

21. These numbers are good news and will probably sink lower

But, will it translate into anything if the dems don't soon start wrapping this clown around the necks of the other candidates and porentials?

Howard Deans 'culture of corruption' (and incompetence) would seem to be a good beginning.

After all, Bush won't be running for anything other than running after campaign donations, and these donors need to be shown that these guys won't be in power and will be unable to deliver the sweetheart deals.

[0007]

22. I'd say those are rather high poll rating for junior.....