CNN: Bush's N.O. speech "did little to help his standing with the public"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush approval rating at 40 percent
Majority disapprove of the handling of Katrina, Iraq

Monday, September 19, 2005; Posted: 3:12 p.m. EDT (19:12 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/19/bush.poll/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's vow to rebuild the Gulf Coast did little to help his standing with the public, only 40 percent of whom now approve of his performance in office, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday.

Just 41 percent of the 818 adults polled between Friday and Monday said they approved of Bush's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while 57 percent disapproved.

And support for his management of the war in Iraq has dropped to 32 percent, with 67 percent telling pollsters they disapproved of how Bush is prosecuting the conflict.

The survey had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Fifty-nine percent said they considered the 2003 invasion of Iraq a mistake, 63 percent said they wanted to see some or all U.S. troops withdrawn from that country and 54 percent told pollsters they favor cutting spending on the war to pay for disaster relief. Just 35 percent of those polled approved of Bush's handling of the economy, with 63 percent saying they disapproved.

[UrbScotty]

1. They're spinning it so hard, they must like Wheel of Fortune (nt)

[deadparrot]

2. Shocker, that.

I predicted he'd hold steady in the polls. I've never been so happy to have been proven wrong. :)

[Bumblebee]

hate to disappoint you but he probably is steady

since he never should have been at 45/46% in Gallup in the previous ones. They are now in line with the other pre-speech polls so it's less of his slide and more of their internal adjustment since they were probably quite embarrassed by how wild their polls were in relation to the other ones.

[deadparrot]

5. Maybe, but I've never though of Gallup as a company to correct their polls

in order to cast George in a bad light. They've generally been towards the high end of the spectrum on everything I've seen. :shrug:

Maybe it's just statistical noise. I'm no statistician, by any means, so I'll just leave it up to them. :)

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Maybe should have buttoned the shirt properly....left the lights on

a bit longer...applied a thick layer of antiperspirant...fixed the clock...

MAYBE we are finally starting to forget ranking the handlers, and starting to focus on the handled...at last?!

[shoelace414]

4. maybe he needs to give another speech on Thursday at 9 central

that way he'll get the people who were expecting the season premiere of ER.