Bush Approval Rating at New Career Low (ABC News/WP Poll - 38%)

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=1825264

Bush Approval Rating at New Career Low
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Only 38 Percent of Americans Approval of Bush's Overall Job Performance, the Lowest of His Presidency


April 10, 2006 — President Bush's job approval rating is at a career low in this latest ABC News/Washington Post poll amid continued broad public skepticism about the Iraq war.

Just 38 percent of Americans now approve of Bush's overall performance in office; it's the lowest mark of his presidency, albeit by a single point. Sixty percent disapprove of how he's handling his job, matching the highest disapproval of his tenure.

One of the primary drags on the president's job approval rating has been the public's negative assessment of the war in Iraq, and in this poll 58 percent say the war was not worth fighting  a majority sentiment for the past 16 months.

The president's overall job numbers are little changed from a month ago and are about what they were last fall, before they briefly improved following the December parliamentary elections in Iraq. Also similar to his ratings in the fall, a striking feature of the president's predicament is the intensity of sentiment against him.

[spinbaby]

1. How is it staying so high?

How is it possible that 38% of the population thinks he's doing okay?

[cain_7777]

10. If this country was educated...

the chimps approval should be 2%

[Catrina]

43. It IS 2% among Blacks! I thought he was at 34% last month?

[Kikosexy2]

32. Given...

the mainstream "Liberal" medias credibility since Chimpie's been in office...I'm sure his true ratings have be in the 20s or even lower--it's just that the "bought up" media will not report such...know what I mean?

[Imperialism Inc.]

35. I can't understand it myself, however,

I know several people here in my office that still support him strongly. They aren't very informed people (and I gave up on trying to make them so) they just go from the gut. One is a right wing Christian and dislikes Muslims. The one is former Army but not much of a thinker. If it is military it must be good kinda thing. The other , who knows... I think maybe he is a bit of a racists and also hates "welfare" so hates Dems and therefore supports repub. ... I guess...!??

[MADem]

37. Doesn't ABC skew 3 to 5% points to the GOP side, generally? n/t

[arewenotdemo]

51. "he may be a fool, but he's our fool"

lyrics from Newman's "Rednecks" comes to mind...

[UpInArms]

2. ABC/Post is consistently higher than other polls

they must have some real droids on their survey list:

[goforit]

9. Great chart!!...Shows how biased ABC is. Pew appears more realistic

[KittyWampus]

And American Research Group.

[KittyWampus]

72. And American Research Group.

[CJCRANE]

3. 60% DISAPPROVAL..nt

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. This 38% is BULLSHIT

The media has been wailing about the falling Bush numbers for weeks and yet, the number never seems to change. The number was 38% BEFORE Dick Cheney shot somebody and before the Libby revelation. If things keep getting worse for Bush, why does this number continually hover at around 38%. I do not believe it.

[ClintonTyree]

27. There are many different polls..........

some have historically been more favorable to Bush, other trend toward not so favorable. This is Bush's "best" poll, the one he always does better in. All of them are trending lower. There has been no "bounce" from his latest national propaganda tour. I can see nothing but a downward spiral from here barring any "miracle from above". :eyes: 38% does seem rather high but there's no where to go but down for Chimpy. He and his "agenda" are toast. He's the lamest of the lame ducks. Even his base is abandoning him and in light of recent circumstances ie. Plame, Libby, Delay etc. I think he'll settle in somewhere around 30%. Those 30% are the most brain-dead of the brain-dead. There is absolutely nothing heinous enough that he could do to sway their support. They are the dregs of American society, the ME, ME, ME people that Bush panders to. Fuck them!

[pacalo]

36. I totally agree, Vinnie!

The lowest that has been reported by the media is 34%.

I have a strong feeling that his numbers are actually in the 20's & that the media is fudging these numbers. Bush is out giving daily speeches at controlled townhall meetings looking as though he was pushed into doing it. He clearly looks uncomfortable, his thought process is even murkier than usual, & his confidence seems shaken. Notice all the stammering & inappropriate snickering, plus his face appears red.

I'll bet his numbers are in the 20's.

[Renew Deal]

5. Wait until they find out he's the leaker in Chief

30% approval or worse

[Atman]

6. How is it going UP and being called a new LOW?

Did they miss the minus symbol before the number?

No way in hell. There aren't enough fundie lunatics on earth to give Bush a 38%.

[Mist]

23. I love how *'s numbers are always "falling" to what they were before! nt

[shantipriya]

7. 38% !!!!!!!!

I am ashamed to be living in a country which has those 38%,even after so much new info re Iraq war and the President's lies!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. Relax. They have a pretty conservative viewership.

[NYC]

8. 68% think Bush is dishonest.

32% think he is honest.

Not the same poll, but similar results. Approximately 2/3 think he is dishonest and disapprove of his job handling.

[electropop]

30. and only 60% disapprove.

Does that mean 8% like him, even though they know he's a lying sack of shit? What kind of shit are they?

[MADem]

39. Half the country doesn't even VOTE

Odds are good you've got some toothless wonders in that group who think they are approving of getting their groove on after a weekend evening at the bar.

And then, you've got bozos who don't vote who just haven't a clue. Their little lives are doing fine, so they "approve" because they fear change.

[NYC]

50. Maybe dishonest people approve of other dishonest people.

Or they really didn't understand the question.

[arwalden]

11. Would Presidential RECALL VOTES Work? Or NO-CONFIDENCE Votes?

[flordehinojos]

13. how can 38% be a new career low for bush when i've seen his disapproval

ratings listed as 36% before -- and i am sure that whoever is reporting the bush ratings is puffing them up somewhat the man has got to be in the single digits

[Lasher]

15. I think 38% must be a new low in this particular poll.

Maybe you saw the 36% in a different poll. There's a lot of difference in the polls. Rasmussen, for example shows a 43% approval rating today.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm

[flordehinojos]

16. thanks.

:)

[Plaid Adder]

14. Has Pew done a new poll since the leak revelations?

If Pew's approval # drops below 30 before Bush leaves office, I win a bet I have on with my Republican brother.

Come on, baby, Plaidder needs that sewing table...

The Plaid Adder

[catmandu57]

17. Maybe 38% for these numblenutz

I've seen much more accurate polls that indicated 36% and falling, that's been a couple of weeks ago, I think if the same people issued new results the number would be 30%, maybe less.
I don't like abc never have never will if they told me the sun was shining I'd have to look to make sure.

[closeupready]

18. Get a load of that "albeit by a single point" crap.

You know that if it was a single point in his favor, they would leave that phrase out. :mad:

[bluestateguy]

19. Take this as good news

The ABC News poll has been more pro-Bush than the Fox News poll. So this all time low of 38% is a good thing. Don't comnplain about the 38% that still support the spoiled brat. Be happy about the 62% that do not. There will always be the kool-aid drinkers who will support anything he says and does. I suspect he could still drop down to about 30% before all is said and done.

[BigDDem]

20. This just in...

38% of 'Mercans LOVE Kool-Aid.

[Arugula Latte]

24. Welcome to DU, BigDDem!

:hi: :toast:

[Catrina]

47. True, and didn't the Fox poll come out this week at 36%?

[superconnected]

21. So the very most that could possibly support bush is 38%

The real stats are likely 5-10% lower.

[VP505]

22. Gee I

wunder why, cuz, dat George, he da man???:sarcasm:

[berni_mccoy]

25. The ABC/WP poll is typically 10 points higher than the lowest...

Meaning that some of the lower polls have BREACHED 30%... I bet some other polls come out this week with Bush hovering around 29%!!!!

[RDU Socialist]

26. Bush should be as unpopular as Bob Taft in Ohio

if this country was at all rational. Wars based on idiocy, policies based on medieval interpretations of a book, raping of our planet, and corruption as high as massive as the Grant and Harding administrations combined, and somehow more than a third of the country approves of Bush? What the hell does he have to go on? Abortion is still legal in every state but South Dakota (which Bush had no business in getting made illegal). Gays can still get married in Massachusetts. The war in Iraq is killing more and more of our own, and will always be looked upon as a phenomenal mistake.

On an unrelated note, has anyone else noticed the quality of Tafts going down with each generation? I wonder if Bob Taft's son will be caught with a dead hooker in his basement or something...

[BrklynLiberal]

28. 38% of what? People who contributed to his last campaign?

I cannot believe that it is actually above 12% of the American populace and most of those have to be either on the payroll or relatives.

[Demeter]

29. Now If They Measured 28%, It Would Be News; Maybe Even True!

If that's the best they can do with their lies, damn lies, and statistics, they are toast 3 times over.

[NightOwwl]

31. 9 in 10 Dems say war was not worth it.

6 in 10 Independents say war was not worth it.

Where are our Dem "leaders" on this? Where is our representation???

{{{crickets chirping}}}

edited to add: Thank you John Kerry and Jack Murtha for speaking out against this travesty. But that is not enough. The Dem party should be of one voice on this matter. Ya got that Hillary and Joe and all you other DINOS?

[MADem]

40. Who are the idiot one in ten who say it was?

Their portfolios must be heavily skewed towards defense and affiliated industry stocks....

[ThoughtCriminal]

44. Dead-Ender DINOs? - nt

[coalition_unwilling]

45. Lieberman's extended family (eom)

[genieroze]

33. What are they doing, polling people under rocks?

38% my butt. Way to high, as the 38% polled are.

[Mr_Spock]

34. When is it going to hit 0%

I'm getting impatient. :D

[President Kerry]

55. 2% among blacks, +/- 3% statistical error.. you figure. n/t

[Mr_Spock]

57. Yes, he is statistically 0% with blacks

I guess he's not so popular amongst that group...

[bunkerbuster1]

38. Pride plays a big part at this point.

For me, the key is that 20% who still claim they "strongly approve" of Bush's job performance.

That's a pitiful number, but still too high. And I'm convinced the main reason that he gets even that much is due, as much as anything else, as stubborn pride.

think of the diehard Bushies you've encountered in the last couple of years. Aren't they defensive? nasty? snarly, even? of course they are.

They've behaved like buffoons in order to support their Dear Leader, and at this point, it's become something personal, something tied to their own existence. To acknowledge their Preznit's faults would be to acknowledge their own, and they're not ready to do that yet.

Honestly, I think about half of the 20% "strongly approve" because of their stubbornnes. The other half probably think George is sent by God to kill brown people, or something similarly nutty.

[CJCRANE]

41. Bush's Groundhog Day..every day is a new low..nt

[ThoughtCriminal]

42. "Strongly" Disaprove

Some polls have a choice of "Somewhat/Strongly Approve/Disapprove" that reveal something even more striking. "Strongly Disapprove" outnumber "Strongly Approve" by something like 2:1 now. I don't have anything very recent bookmarked, but for example last January in the AP poll it was 41 to 19:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/1/6/164034/3738

When Bush's approval was still in the 40's the media would call that "Almost half" (always round off in his favor). I wonder when (if not already) we will get to over half strongly disapprove?

Edit:

Last month Strongly Disapprove hit 44% in the Gallup poll:
http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=21808

[fshrink]

46. Looking at the bell-curve,

the Idiot should have a firm base with the individuals 1 standard deviation below the average, where he himself probably is. That makes for a minimum approval of about 16%...

[Mrspeeker]

48. That 38% is the ABC news room

Hes really around 2%, for the richest group of people that stand to gain from his every breath!

[abester]

49. I hope you're right

because if even more than one in three thinks he's doing OK makes me sick

[WhiteTara]

52. how does he get an increase in his poll numbers

when they say they are going down. I am so tired of up is down and down is up. Sheesh.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

53. These 38% are the Christian fascist fundies, I'm sure. They make me vomit

I'm sure they could watch Bush having sex with children and still defend him. They'll die defending the a**hole.

[madmark]

54. 38% seems high to me

[Imagevision]

56. 38 % yeah right - yesterday it was 36% and being lower it's at 38%? BS.!!

[Bob K]

58. Poetic injustice

Sworn in as Buffoon-in-Chief,
his legacy is pain an' grief.

With Dracula as his VeePee
they both suck blood from you and me.

No shame, no guilt, no aire of trust,
money's all that they for lust.

A new breed of fascists without a theme
save for a self-enrichment scheme.

The buck stops over there some place,
Any lies or ruse that helps save face.

Rummy, Rove 'n Rice - macabre court jesters
Act like nothing's wrong while the country festers.

Katrina, Iraq an now Iran,
Can't do for our own what for others we can.

Retirement, medicine, education,
What the hell do you want from your nation?

Georgei, Dickie, Donald 'n Condi
We're one-eighty out from Mahatma Ghandi!

[electropop]

59. WaPo: Poll Finds Bush Job Rating at New Low

Poll Finds Bush Job Rating at New Low
38% Approve; 60% Disapprove

By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, April 11, 2006; Page A01

Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush's standing with the public to a new low, at the same time that Republican fortunes on Capitol Hill also are deteriorating, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The survey found that 38 percent of the public approve of the job Bush is doing, down three percentage points in the past month and his worst showing in Post-ABC polling since he became president. Sixty percent disapprove of his performance.

With less than seven months remaining before the midterm elections, Bush's political troubles already appear to be casting a long shadow over them. Barely a third of registered voters, 35 percent, approve of the way the Republican-held Congress is doing its job -- the lowest level of support in nine years.

The negative judgments about the president and the congressional majority reflect the breadth of the GOP's difficulties and suggest that problems of each may be mutually reinforcing. Although the numbers do not represent a precipitous decline over recent surveys, the fact that they have stayed at low levels over recent months indicates the GOP is confronting some fundamental obstacles with public opinion rather than a patch of bad luck.

...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/10/AR2006041000259.html

[Erika]

60. The 38% are those too stubborn to admit their mistake

in voting for the dangerous idiot.

[Left Below]

61. Approximatly 35% of US voters are fundie

aborto-freaks.


It won't drop any lower for the Chimp. His supporters are lower primates.

[stevedeshazer]

62. Things 'r GREAT!! What 'r you talkin' 'bout?

[electropop]

63. WTF has happened to Laura's face?

Looks like the rictus of death!

[DBoon]

68. separated at birth?

[Lorien]

64. Wasn't it 36% not long ago?

Having another Orwellian moment here.....

[Mnemosyne]

65. Orwell definitely. It was 36%, I remember. n/t

[Jane Austin]

67. Different polls, Different questions.

Go here to see all the different polls:

http://www.pollingreport.com/

[Mnemosyne]

70. Thanks janeaustin! Great link! n/t

:hi:

[Jane Austin]

71. No credit to moi!

I got it from fellow DUer Career Prole in an earlier thread.

I've got it bookmarked now.

Tag, you're it!

[Mnemosyne]

73. I've been it before! I can be it again!

:hi:

[Mnemosyne]

66. Liars, skewers of truth. 29% tops. n/t

[madmark2]

69. 38% is ridiculously high