Zogby- Bush Job Rating at 45%

[Lexingtonian]

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1014

Released: August 01, 2005

Despite Big Week for Bush, No Bounce So Far: Bush Job Rating at 45%—Virtually Unchanged from Last Month; Supreme Court Pick Roberts Favorably Viewed by Two-in-Three, New Zogby Poll Reveals

Despite a big week for the President, including passage of his energy bill, a high-profile transportation bill and the CAFTA agreement by Congress, favorable press coverage surrounding his personal commitment to fitness, and a positive public reaction to his first Supreme Court appointment, the President’s approval rating is virtually unchanged from polling conducted in late June.

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The low approval rating is the continuation of a trend that began in late February and has remained constant throughout the first months of President Bush’s second term.

I think their measurements, especially on the 'handling terrorism' metric, are running a bit high (at least 2% everywhere) and amount to an overcorrecting for their bias too far against Republicans last year. But there are a lot of amusing bits of data here.

Remember that criticism levels tend to decline a bit during summers, generally, and gain 3-10% in late August and early December.

[WI_DEM]

1. that's because on the big questions the war on Iraq

and the economy including sky high gasoline prices--he sucks to high heaven and that is what the American people are focusing on--even though those other "victories" are pretty bad in themselves.

[libertypirate]

2. It's BS ... you know why?

The methodolgy on each survey has become shorter and shorter.

[xchrom]

3. ''Supreme Court Pick Roberts Favorably Viewed by Two-in-Three''

lol -- there's the rub.

they might not like bush -- but think it's fine and dandy that he appoints mini-me versions of himself.

[PlanetBev]

4. These polls are a ridiculous waste of time

Even if Bush's poll numbers went down to 13 percent, it doesn't matter. He is in there another 3 and 1/2 years, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. He can and will do tremendous damage, no matter what his poll numbers are.

[EST]

6. Agree--

And, even if the impossible could happen and he were impeached, the incoming rapist would be as bad as the outgoing one.

[Lexingtonian]

5. political moderates

think that Roberts is moderate enough. Political conservatives think he's conservative enough. Quite a bit would have to happen to dispell this impression.

I think the key impression is, and imho correctly, that Roberts doesn't actually tip the balance on the Court in what people do consider crucial- though he adds more bit more weight on the one side than O'Connor did.