If 20% "strongly approve" of you, the U.S.S. Mandate has effing SAILED.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Gallup_Bush_disapproval_rating_lowest_of_0308.html



More than 4 in 10 Americans strongly disapproving of the job George W. Bush is doing as president, according to the latest CNN/Gallup poll, the highest of any president except Nixon in the waning months of his presidency. Just 40 percent of Americans believe Bush can manage the country effectively; Bush registers a 38% approval rating with a 60% disapproval rating.

When Americans were asked a follow-up of whether they strongly approve or disapprove of Bush, more than twice as many Americans say they strongly disapprove (44%) as say they strongly approve (20%) of Bush. The strong disapproval rating is the highest Gallup has measured for Bush by a percentage point, and is the highest for any president since Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.

Nixon is the only other president to register strong disapproval ratings above 40% in Gallup Polls. Nixon had a 48% strong disapproval rating in February 1974, and a 46% rating days before he resigned from office in August 1974. Gallup first asked about strength of approval during the Lyndon Johnson administration, and has asked it periodically for every president since.

Forty-nine percent of Republicans now strongly approve of Bush, the lowest expression of solidarity with Bush by his own party to date. A majority of Democrats, 68%, strongly disapprove of Bush -- as they have each time the intensity follow-up has been asked since September 2003. For the first time, a majority of independents, 53%, now strongly disapprove of Bush.

President Holds Press Conference

November 4, 2004

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/11/20041104-5.html

And it's one of the wonderful -- it's like earning capital. You asked, do I feel free. Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened in the -- after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election -- and I'm going to spend it for what I told the people I'd spend it on, which is -- you've heard the agenda: Social Security and tax reform, moving this economy forward, education, fighting and winning the war on terror.

Victorious Bush vows to reach out to Kerry voters

:spray:

Updated: 8:19 p.m. ET Nov. 3, 2004

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6363692/?GT1=5809



WASHINGTON - “America has spoken,” President Bush said Wednesday as he claimed a second term and appealed to voters — even those who opposed him — to back his agenda. “I’m humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens,” Bush told hundreds of Republican supporters who gathered two blocks from the White House after a long night of poll watching and uncertainty. “With that trust comes a duty to serve all Americans. And I will do my best to fulfill that duty every day as your president.”



Bush tried to reach out to the 55 million voters who chose Democratic Sen. John Kerry instead of him. Many of those voters said they were not so much enthusiastic backers of Kerry as rather strong opponents of the president’s policies, including the invasion of Iraq.

“Today, I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent,” Bush said. “To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust.”



“A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation,” he added. “We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.”

[Avalux]

1. Doesn't matter. They are laughing at the approval polls -

laughing while they push through bills, ignore the constitution and break laws without any accountability. It doesn't matter what the people think anymore - we have been abandoned and hung out to dry. The joke's on us.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. If the repukes win in 2006,

then we know that the voting machines have been corrupted totally.

[deminks]

3. So, why does he still have his finger on the button?

Just askin'.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. It's the base...it's all about the base.

You're absolutely right.

And it's just a matter of semantics. If Bush has his finger on the button because 99.9% of all Americans love him and sleep with a picture of him under their pillow, or Bush has his finger on the button because you will NEVER chip into the die-hard 30 to 40 percent that make up his "base"...what's it really matter of he has his finger on the button?

It doesn't matter.

But for whatever comfort it brings us, we can absolutely rule out a "mandate."

:patriot:

[BlueIris]

5. Had to kick on principle.