(60%) Americans Dissatisfied with Bush’s Handling of Iraq (poll / CBS)

[struggle4progress]

Polling Data

Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the situation with Iraq?

Sept. 2005 Aug. 2005

Approve 35% 38%
Disapprove 60% 57%

From what you have seen or heard about the situation in Iraq, what should the United States do now? Should the U.S. increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, keep the same number of U.S. troops in Iraq as there are now, or decrease the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, or remove all its troops from Iraq?

Sept. 2005 Aug. 2005

Increase 11% 14%
Keep the same 23% 25%
Decrease 25% 26%
Remove all 33% 29%
Not sure 7% 6%

Source: CBS News
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 725 American adults, conducted on Sept. 6 and Sept. 7, 2005. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8900

[napi21]

1. Sorry, but a poll of only 725 is so small a sample, I don't think it means

much.

[struggle4progress]

2. More Americans Decry Bush’s Handling of Iraq

Polling Data

Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the situation in Iraq?

Sept. 2005 Jul. 2005 May 2005

Approve 34% 35% 37%
Disapprove 58% 57% 56%

Right now, which is more important for Bush to focus on: domestic policy or the war on terrorism?

Sept. 2005 Jan. 2005

Domestic Policy 56% 40%
The war on terrorism 25% 44%
Neither 1% 1%
Both 12% 13%
Don’t know / Refused 6% 2%

Source: Princeton Survey Research Associates / Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,000 American adults, conducted on Sept. 6 and Sept. 7, 2005. Margin of error is 3.5 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8893


Sample size will affect the MOE a bit: bigger samples yield smaller MOE. And this, of course, isn't an exact science like physics. But it looks like the recent numbers are somewhere around 60% opposition to the Iraq policy ...

[bemildred]

3. What "handling" of Iraq? nt