Bush Approval Steady at 37% (Gallup Poll)

[sabra]

http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=21979

Bush Approval Steady at 37%
Bush has averaged 38% over last four Gallup Polls

GALLUP NEWS SERVICE

PRINCETON, NJ -- There has been little change in George W. Bush's job approval rating in the last week. The March 13-16 Gallup Poll pegs his approval at 37%. This rating is virtually unchanged from the 36% measured over the March 10-12 weekend, and not statistically different from two February polls prior to that.

[wookie294]

1. Not good news

Still too high.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

24. Gallup poll. Nothing else needs be said.

[FloridaPat]

2. You can fool some of the people all of the time....

[MrModerate]

5. Yeah -- apparently 37% n/t

[AndyTiedye]

26. And For The Rest, There's…

Republican Electing Machinez

[LynnTheDem]

3. What a failure he is.

Always has been a total failure. Always will be a total failure.

Too bad so many innocent people have to suffer for his failures.

[MrModerate]

4. Have we reached the tipping point?

Maybe. Maybe that abyss Georgie was talking about the Iraqis looking into was the abyss he himself is about to take a dive in.

As much as I despise the guy, I'm more than a little worried about what happens to America (and the world for that matter) if his presidency is wrecked -- AND he stays in office. Carrying around a rotting corpse in the Oval Office for the next 33 months doesn't sound like a recipe for success on any front.

I'd much prefer a caretaker presidency by whoever avoids getting carried to the hill by the impeachment tumbrels than Schimpanski slowly putrefying in place. Even the worst of them (is it Hastert who's third in line?) would be constrained as to the mischief they could do from such a weakened position.

[w4rma]

9. Nah, just makes folks less likely to listen to his idiocy. (nt)

[AndyTiedye]

27. But Bush** (or Cheney) Still Has the…

:scared:football:scared:
:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

[maxrandb]

6. Fun with Headlines

"Bush Approval 'STEADY' at 37%"???

I've seen this headline writers work before, I think

"Titanic Officer of the Deck to Lee Helmsman: 'Steady as she goes'"

"Napoleon Suffers Minor Set-back at Waterloo"

"General Custer Confident in Troop Numbers"

"Sherman Greeted as Liberator by Georgia Residents"

"Union Reports Minor Skermish at Gettysburg"

"Mission Accomplished"

[gratuitous]

8. That struck me, too -- "steady"

"Uh oh, Doctor. It looks like the patient died." "Tell the family that his condition has stabilized."

[Arkansas Granny]

15. Yep. You've got their spin down perfect.

[EarlG]

13. Indeed

Don't Bush's "steady" poll numbers remind you of his "strong, steady leadership?"

[maxrandb]

17. I've come up with a new moniker for *

"Steadily Pathetic"

[radfringe]

29. they hired "Baghdad Bob" to write the headlines

remember him?


Iraqi Information Minister

[wakeme2008]

7. And Gallup oversamples Repugs but like 6 points so

the real rating is lower.

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. Gallup is a BS polling group

Don't believe it.

[underpants]

11. COMEBACK! COMEBACK!

:eyes:

[UpInArms]

12. circling the drain

[Barrett808]

14. Despite what Gallup claims, the Bush trend is ever downward:

http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com

[truthisfreedom]

28. bwahahahaha! spin is king in this country if they're trying to call that

"steady."

[APPLE314]

16. SOME PEOPLE WILL PULL FOR THE JOKER OR THE RIDDLER

There will always be a certain number of people who sympathize with the underdog. There are also people who short stocks, pick their nose in public, vote republican.....etc. You have to remember that they are also fighting for your right to call them stupid.

[savemefromdumbya]

18. Dear Gallup, your headlines should read "Bush at all time low"

steady - my foot

[chelsea0011]

19. Only when it's above 50% should it be called approval rating,

when it is below it should be dissaproval rating as in..Bush's dissapproval rating 59%

[llmart]

20. Bullshit!

Newsweek has him at 33%.

[CJCRANE]

21. Bush still unpopular

but hasn't tried to sell the ports or let 1000's of Americans drown this week, so his disapproval rate remains steady.

[yellowcanine]

22. Patient's condition stable as coma continues.........

[Media_Lies_Daily]

23. "Steady" before his next big plunge.

[Rainscents]

25. This is Gallop poll, 37% = 27%

There rating of GOP is always higher than others.

[geniph]

30. Bu$h Approval Remains Steadily in Toilet

Despite Our Best Efforts to Spin the Story Otherwise!

[geniph]

31. Patient's Condition Remains Stable

Still No Sign of Brain Activity...

[David Zephyr]

Fox just recently had him "steady" at 40% and then he fell again.

Steady? What a load of crap.

[David Zephyr]

32. Fox just recently had him "steady" at 40% and then he fell again.

Steady? What a load of crap.

[Rex]

33. If 37% is steady, I wonder what 17% would be called?

stumbling?

[eppur_se_muova]

34. Is this like those two-game "winning streaks" sports announcers proclaim?

[stickdog]

35. Titanic rudder steady as she goes. (nt)

[Javaman]

36. Steady, that is, until the next big fuck up. n/t

[hedgehog]

37. That's what I find amazing

There really hasn't been an outstanding screwup. Gas prices? Nope Unemployment? Nope Huge casualty figures? Nope Bush is being done in by the steady drip drip drip of day in, day out incompetence and corruption. There is no one big disaster that you can point to that he can fix and bounce back from. It's all bad, all the time.

[Javaman]

38. Very true, it's like failing every test as opposed to failing one big test

but then again, he's done both. all sorts of little things but to me allowing 9/11 to happen, ignoring all the reports that Iraq didn't have WMD's and failing to help the Katrina victims are pretty big in my book.

bottom line, he is consistent in he stupidity and poor ability to lead.

Read my tag line. :)

[hedgehog]

39. After 9/11 people rallied behind him, but as you said , he has failed

every test. These people are gone for good. He is not going to win them back. The real question now is, will they transfer their disgust to the Congressional candidates in November?

[Javaman]

40. I think we have a fantastic chance of that happening, what concerns me

is in 2008. will morons* stink be such that it carries over and gives the nomination to a democrat? I hope so...

why this worries me is, suppose the repukes realize, although to late, that moron* is well a moron* and want to go to a repuke candidate that is far removed from moron* and is actually a moderate. Unless we have a strong candidate with a powerful message and platform, we could be in for a rough go of it.

The paranoid part of me is that moron* will somehow overturn, ignore, override the 22nd amendment and become prez* for life. It's a truly scary time when even the thought of that runs through my mind as a possibility.

I still believe that they aren't finished by any stretch of the imagination and I'm not talking about bombing Iran. I believe they have more up their sleeves.

I shudder at the concept.

[annofark]

41. IS THIS THE LOWEST RATING OF ANY PRESIDENT?

I am sure I could look it up somewhere...but I wonder who had the lowest ratings of any president. Nixon?

[Javaman]

43. he either or very close, come to think of it, I think nixon was at like

23% but I'm probably wrong

[hedgehog]

42. Here's a scary thought -

My dad just told me that 30% of the people in this country are right wing fundamentalists working to bring about the second coming/rapture/end of the world. He's basing that on discussions of Kevin Phillip's new book about Bush, American Theocracy. If that figure is accurate, that tracks along with Bush's approval rating. The problem is, whoever gets elected next time around is going to have to work with that 30% one way or another. In other words, any president, Democratic or Republican who trys to change things for the better is going to have to drag 30% of America along kicking and screaming.

[HockeyMom]

44. better than dragging 70% along kicking and screaming

which is what we have now.