Poll Shows Bush Approval Ratings Sink to Lowest Point in Presidency

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Poll Shows Bush Approval Ratings Sink to Lowest Point in Presidency

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
August 24, 2005

President Bush's job approval ratings are at their lowest point of his presidency as only 40% of U.S. adults have a favorable opinion of his job performance and 58% have a negative opinion, according to a Harris Interactive poll.

This is a decline from just two months ago in June when the president's ratings were 45% positive and 55% negative. Much of this decline can be tied to the public's opinion on important issues. The war in Iraq has climbed to the top of the most important issues list and the economy is now viewed as the second most important issue, according to the poll. At the same time, Vice President Dick Cheney's approval ratings slipped to 35% from 38% in June, while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's approval ratings dropped to 40% from 42%. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the only cabinet member whose approval ratings rose, to 57% from 52% in June.

Both Republicans and Democrats saw declines in their approval ratings. Fewer than one-third of adults gave a positive rating to Democrats in Congress, while 65% gave Democrats a negative rating. Republicans fared only slightly better with a 32% positive rating, down from a 37% positive rating in June.

Americans were also asked in the poll to name the two most important issues that the U.S. government needs to address. When considering the most important issues, 41% of those polled say the war is most important, sharply higher than 24% in June. The second-most important issue is the economy, the poll showed.

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Methodology:

This poll was conducted by telephone within the U.S. between August 9-16, 2005, among a nationwide cross section of 1,217 adults. Figures for age, sex, race, education, number of adults, number of voice/telephone lines in the household, region and size of place were weighted where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online. In theory, with a probability sample of this size, one can say with 95% certainty that the results have a sampling error of +/- 3 percentage points of what they would be if the entire adult population had been polled with complete accuracy.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. Predicted....except for the Rice Fool.... she continues to Con peeps

into thinking she doing a good job.....

[snowbear]

3. The "peeps" (aka "freeps") are sure conned easily!!

Can you imagine being in a room full of them? :wow:

[opihimoimoi]

7. LOL, Luv it....

BTW.......Who Designed them...??

[Mark E. Smith]

2. The more the mad dog right bashes Cindy Sheehan ...

... the faster Bush's numbers fall.

[longship]

4. They're all falling in line.

And they're all falling.

Bad news for CuckooBananas, good news for the country, the world, and anybody else.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. I cannot believe that 32% of the Republicans still would

say they support that Dimwit and his policies. Even they must realize by now that they are being screwed royally. When it gets down to about 8% I figure it will have hit bottom. That will be the real hard core morans.

[Lindacooks]

6. Why on earth would Kindasleezy's ratings go up?

All she does is parrot chimpy and go bustling around in badly tailored suits.

[trogdor]

12. I dunno about that.

Kinda Sleezy is about the snappiest dresser of the bunch, not that that's saying much. Laura Bush is the one who looks like she buys all her clothes at Wal*Mart.

[tanyev]

13. It was that dominatrix outfit with the high heel boots.

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14. Relatively new on the team - in high visibility?

And, the thinking that a woman who is African American cannot be as bad as the old boys

[mountainvue]

8. So does this mean if we finally

get the bastard impeached that we end up with Condi?:puke:

[wli]

9. they'll go further down

There won't be a President in history with poll numbers so low by the time he's ejected.

[Skittles]

10. I suspect it has more to do with gas prices than dead troops

:(

[VIHMH5L50P]

11. America's a little slow, but at least they're finally getting it...

the sob's finally getting exposed but it's come at a hight cost.