Newsweek: Poppy, Carter & Nixon "plunged" lower than Junior in the polls

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

All of this bodes ill for the Republicans as midterm congressional elections approach this fall, although some Democratic strategists are concerned that the censure resolution and impeachment talk may actually make for an unwanted distraction. Registered voters continue to prefer Democratic candidates for Congress over GOP candidates by a margin of 50 percent to 39 percent.

This is the third of four NEWSWEEK polls taken since September 2005 showing the Democrats with a double-digit lead. The Democrats never had such an advantage in any NEWSWEEK poll conducted before the last two off-year Congressional elections, 2002 and 1998. The Democrats now lead in Congressional vote preferences of Independents by 47 percent to 31 percent. Key to the election outcome is whether the Democrats’ big advantage with independent voters will be maintained and how many of these voters will actually turn out in November.

Both houses of Congress are now controlled by the Republicans, but public opinion now favors a Democratic takeover this November by a margin of 50 percent to 34 percent. Among Independents, the Democrats are preferred by more than a two-to-one margin: 51 percent to 22 percent.

Low as Bush’s approval ratings are at the moment, three of the last six U.S. presidents actually had ratings below Bush’s current score at some point in their presidencies. His father, George H.W. Bush, saw his rating decline to 29 percent in August 1992, amid growing economic woes. Jimmy Carter slipped to 28 percent in July 1979 during the Iran hostage crisis, and Richard Nixon plunged to 23 percent in January 1974, the year he resigned his office as a result of the Watergate scandal.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11894249/site/newsweek/page/2/

[Sparkle]

1. Geeze. Did you have to include the pic?

:puke:

p.s. what's with the bush eats beef screen name?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

When I joined DU...

...a "mad cow" story was active in the news.

Junior was in Crawford. He went before the cameras to fluff up his Texas rancher buddies by saying "I HAD BEEF FOR LUNCH TODAY."

Immediately after thinking "Who gives a flying fuck," I thought "This is the stupidest thing he's said to date."

And Bush_Eats_Beef was born. Some DUers wish on an ongoing basis that I'd drop dead. So far, I haven't.

:evilgrin:

[Sparkly]

13. Was that the speech when he also said --

"It's important for the Murcan people to eat," and "Thank goodness we're not dependent on somebody else's meat!"? I still remember that one!!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

14. I don't remember...I just remember him standing next to bales of hay...

...looking like the Idiot-In-Chief.

:toast:

[Sparkly]

16. Yeah, that was the one!!!

It was hilarious. It was like an early experiment in allowing him out without a script!

Husb and I quote that one often. ("Thank goodness we aren't dependent on somebody else's _________!" is always useful -- you can fill in the blank with anything -- and still cracks us up!)

[beltanefauve]

19. "Put food on your family!" n/t

[Clarkie1]

2. "Plunged" is the appropriate verb, and nice pic of the unhappy monkey. n/t

[bluerum]

3. And Kerry was a lock in 2004. Damn dems better not take anything

for granted - its a street fight and they better get that through their thick skulls.

[w13rd0]

9. Kerry was never a lock...

...no Democratic nominee was. Best we ever did in polling is within the MOE ahead, for brief spurts.

[skipos]

11. Agreed. Pre election polling was fairly neck and neck.

The month after the SBV"T" went on the attack, Bush lead by double digits in a few polls. Kerry rebounded after the debates.

[karynnj]

23. Also look at the numbers and put them in perspective

Carter and Bush 1 had incrediblely low approval ratings. Bush 1 in August 1992 was at 29%, his son in August 2004 was around 50%. Clinton did not win 1992 in a landslide and he had Perrot bashing Bush for most of the campaign.

There also was no war, no terror, and a freer media. There was a lot of voter suppression in 2004 that may or may not have quietly occured in 1992. Clinton also didn't have some people who still remembered that a previous Democrat had acted inappropriately in the WH.

Given that the media enabled the Republicans to slime his war service, his long public service career, his character, personality, his wife, and his marriage; it's amazing Kerry came so close.

[Vincardog]

4. will they promise that when jr gets to 23 percent he will quit?

[acmavm]

5. That is the face of a very psychologically screwed up human being

(for lack of a better term) who looks to be on some kind of drug or drinking. The meanness and pettiness of the man just screams out. He is more and more out of control by the day.

[spindrifter]

6. I think this guy has what it takes to plunge below any of

the others. There is no way to turn, no way to run. He will not get a brain transplant, nor will he develop a heart. He's just a tin chimp.

[OzarkDem]

20. He has downward momentum

He has very few tricks left that he can use to improve his ratings. All of his bankrupt policies are catching up with him and he's not going to reverse any of them to improve the situation for average Americans.

He does still have the news media in control, though.

[bluestateguy]

7. That's true they did. What's Newsweek's point?

All 3 of those presidents were driven from office.

Nice company for Baby Bush.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

18. We haven't reached the point in the MSM...

...where it's "OK" for Bush to crash and burn.

There's too much preoccupation with him having another 9-11 "bullhorn moment," or as Chris Matthews says, "regaining his sunny nobility."

[redphish]

8. Looks like he needs some Ex-lax.

[keopeli]

10. What glorious spin Newsweek has

Here are the unexposed facts.

Of the three previous Presidents who had lower ratings:

Bush I - 29% in Aug of 92, just two months before he lost re-election. The next election favored opponents.

Carter - 28% in July 79, during the Iran Hostage Crisis. He never recovered and lost re-election. The next election favored opponenets

Nixon - 23% in Jan 74, six months before becoming the first US President forced to resign. The next election favored opponents.

So, would you say Bush's deflated polls are not as bad as three previous presidents?

How about these:

Like Bush I, Carter and Nixon, Bush the Lesser's low polls are a harbinger of a losing election for Republicans.

Bush the Lesser has good company with other losing Presidents.

Like his predecessors, Bush edges closer to defeat.

[Lexingtonian]

12. give it a year

and Dubya will be fighting Nixon for the bottom.

You realize he loses ~12% of the electorate permanently per calendar year, I assume. This ride is only going to get better for us, and only worse for him and his boys.

[melody]

15. I have faith in the Boy King - I think he can beat them all

He will one day win the title of most hated American politician by the greatest number of people.

Lord knows he's made the grade in my heart already.

[onehandle]

17. "at some point in their presidencies"

Let's see the average ratings, assholes.

Least Popular President EVER.

[beltanefauve]

21. "All of this bodes ill

for the Republicans as midterm congressional elections approach this fall, although some Democratic strategists are concerned that the censure resolution and impeachment talk may actually make for an unwanted distraction."

Once again, the MSM has to throw in some jab against our side, citing some vague, unnamed "strategists". They're still serving their corporate masters as the ship is sinking.

[NativeTexan]

22. Poppy and President Carter never HAD second terms....

.....and the ONLY president in the last 60+ years to be lower than our Village Idiot is "I'm not a crook" Nixon.

[goclark]

24. The difference is Brain Cells

All of the others possessed an IQ over 110 ~ the Chimp's IQ is about the same as his ratings, in the low 30's.