Anyone have a link to Bush's Approval rating? The one that has him at 44%?

[Quixote1818]

[Spiffarino]

1. Rasmussen Report

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

It's at 45% today.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Are there any other polls that mirror these results?

Does anyone have links to any other recent polls? Just curious. Also, is this being mentioned at all by the corporate media?

[Spiffarino]

6. To be honest

I really don't know. I only knew this one becuase of other reports. I've stopped looking at polls. And the MSM. And TV in general. I'm tired of being spoon-fed RW propaganda.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Me, too.

My blood pressure's a lot lower, but I sometimes miss hearing the stuff I used to hear. If something positive for our side leeks through the media sieve, I have to hear it second hand.:)

[osaMABUSh]

2. What's the correlation bt. lame duck's approval and his party's

chances in the next election?

At this point we can only hope Bush is despised so much and his approval is so low by 2008 that the Repubs can't put another one in the White House.

[coloradodem2005]

3. Geez.

I still don't know whether to laugh or go apeshit.

[Spiffarino]

5. It's either buyer's remorse or he stole it

I'm guessing it's a lot of both.

[Lexingtonian]

7. don't forget

that Rasmussen says that Bush runs 2-3% better among 'registered voters' than 'American adults', and that the polls 2004 numbers are rvs but 2005 is Aas.

Zogby (www.zogby.com) has Bush at 49% today, unchanged from a month ago. It seems to me that Zogby has changed their modelling since Election Day to count in more conservatives- they were systematically off by 2% throughout 2004, in a way that favored Kerry.

For all the fun, go to www.pollkatz.com and look at the 'approval' plot for the larger picture and poll results that aren't widely distributed, i.e. to DU.

Personally, I think Zogby is running a bit high and Rasmussen a bit low. The inference about where Bush actually stands from their published claims would be where their error ranges overlap reasonably, in the 47-48% range and down from 50% in late December.

Assuming that Dubya's 'natural' drop rate continues to be about -2.5% per month (as throughout his first term) when unaided by events or campaigns, he got a 'honeymoon' of about a month from his voters. He was at 52% approval on Election Day, says Rasmussen, so Nader and Badnarik seem by majority to have given him 'approval' ratings.

[ynksnewyork2]

8. 51% yesterday

Gallup poll. Was on MSNBC.

[RandomKoolzip]

9. 51%? That's one HELL of a mandate! It's a landslide!

The American people sure sent a clear message to Washington, didn't they?