CBS POLL: Bush Approval 30% - New Dem Congress 68%

[kpete]

CBS Poll: High Hopes For New Congress
68% Are Optimistic About 110th Congress, But Half Doubt Democrats And Bush Will Cooperate

BUSH'S JOB APPROVAL RATING

Approve
30%
Disapprove
63%

FEELINGS ABOUT NEW CONGRESS

Optimistic
68%
Pessimistic
25%


more at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/04/opinion/polls/main2330862.shtml

[Jade Fox]

1. Tonight I heard Bush referred to as being....

a "relatively unpopular" President by some media talking head. Relative to have a 0% approval rating, I guess.

If a Democratic president had numbers as low as Bush, it would be all the media talked about.

[otohara]

22. No Mo Popular War President

I remember when the MSM was still referring to him as "a popular wartime president" even when the numbers were sinking. Now he's just "relatively unpopular"???? People hate him, and that's what these low numbers indicate. Relatively unpopular, my ass!!!

[ljm2002]

25. No kidding!

Remember when they used to be saying, every time they mentioned him it seemed, "this very popular President"...

Now that he is clearly very unpopular, now it's "relatively unpopular"...

Screw 'em, their bias is so blatant it's beyond belief.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Nice numbers. Put a smile on my face, thanks.

[Bozita]

3. Very interesting numbers: Dems have no Iraq plan, but that's better than Bush's plan

good post!

[RiverStone]

13. Here is an Iraq plan via Russ Feingold:

Just as we begin the 110th Congress-

http://www.feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/07/01/20070103.html

[WiseButAngrySara]

4. Yee-Haw !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....n/t

[Imagevision]

5. Bush will go lower then Nixon's ratings (28%) after investigations become revealing...

[Olney Blue]

6. Who are these 30%? Can't imagine......

[Bjorn Against]

7. What were the numbers for the last Congress, weren't they like 20% or something?

That is one monumental shift.

[tridim]

8. Wow! That optimistic number is amazing!

Makes me feel, optimistic. :) Finally.

[GreenZoneLT]

9. Just wait until his next speech

When he comes on TV and proposes sending another 20,000 kids to Iraq as a "sacrifice?" That oughta drop him into the 20s.

[Hepburn]

11. I agree.

The "sacrifice" BS should just drop him into the 20s.

[w4rma]

10. I know that Bush can get down to 25%. I think he will make it below 25%. (nt)

[Selatius]

12. The Democrats have been given a mandate. Let's hope they don't fuck it up.

Don't abuse that mandate, Dem leaders. You abuse that, then you will be replaced by the people.

[JudyM]

14. Seems like 68% is high based on the election results

Makes you wonder if the election results reflected reality.

[trashcanistanista]

15. This is an

excellent and scary point!

[Stevepol]

16. You don't think the electronic voting machines could be at fault?

Nah. It must be the polls.

Somebody's manipulating those crazy polls.

There are even people who claim that factors like racial and ethnic participation, pre-election new voter party registrations, under vote or over vote percentages, unemployment figures, etc. could indicate how a vote might come out.

Fuhgedaboudit. The electronic voting machines are perfectly accurate and efficient. If you add a paper print-out, it's just going to make things worse. The paper will jam and it will slow things down. Keep it modern.

If you want a perfect election system, keep it cyber.

People are imperfect, machines are not. They do exactly what they're programmed to do. Exactly.

[salin]

18. poll from a sample of all vs. election results from those who voted

while the midterm numbers were up, for a midterm election - they were still around 50% of all eligble voters. Vote scam shenanigans could account for some difference - but I would venture to guess that most of the difference is due to people who have an opinion - but who don't regularly vote.

[JudyM]

19. Interesting possibility. That would mean an excess 18% or so of the nonvoting pop is Dem.

Hmmm...

[salin]

17. Impressive

[Hidden Stillness]

20. Voters' #1 Issue: "Republican Corruption"

I have been following a lot of this on C-SPAN and C-SPAN2, and have been so impressed with the way things are going, and so impressed with the hugely favorable response from the American people, that I actually have hope again. I think our grim, tragic era is ending, and we have learned from it. Democrats have been passing bill after bill in the House, to get rules back against corporate lobbying, other ethics violations, and to restore checks and balances in the system, and all the Republican abusers can do about it is whine pathetically, then go along with it, because it is so popular. You don't even hear the unbroken line of belligerant, sneering anti-Democratic callers on "Washington Journal" anymore, even when that Brian Lamb tries to encourage it. There is a lot of popular support for Pelosi, the new Democratic members of Congress, and the more familiar Democrats, who suddenly now, are not being cast as having "suspect motives" by the corporate media--it doesn't work, it is a new era, and we the people are involved again. It feels like our Government and our country, and not just for the rich capitalist criminals that no one can stop.

Even the standard media hit-pieces against Democrats have a new sound to them, as if they are in a vacuum, with none of the fabricated "agreement" they worked up before, with their assembled "substitute public" on their media. A phony "report" just played on this "Countdown," where Lisa Myers "sincerely wondered" if Democrats were really any diffeerent from Republicans, and that they are supposedly consorting with lobbyists the same old way--even after the new moves to get rid of lobbying, and overhaul the corporate-written "Medicare" drug bill--never mentioned that the corporate media itself is one of the biggest lobbyists of them all, and that when politcians have to whore themselves endlessly for campaign contributions, most of it goes to pay the bloodsucking advertising rates of the corporate media itself. When politcians corrupt the system to raise all this money, it is the corporate media they give it all to. Didn't mention that minor detail, Keefy.

There is a totally new atmosphere in the country now, from women, older people, the Democratic majority, the middle class, and many other parts of the real population, and if Democrats in Congress can keep themselves on track and not get corrupted, but continue the people's work, getting the corporations out of the system, then our whole country will be brought back from the dead.

[Clarkie1]

21. We need to make sure Congress builds on that optimism and doesn't F*** it up. nt

[Future Principal]

23. and the backwash speaks again. 30% he's 4 points ahead of Osama Bin Laden

surveyusa.com has him winning two states (UT and ID) and statistically even in two more (WY and ND). So, he's got a whopping 7 EVs and only 6 are up for grabs. Talk about a mandate.

Oh, and surveyusa has him at 36% which I still think is 4 - 7 points too high.

[Dinger]

24. Aww Shucks, Why Can't He Break Into The 20's?

Just one more point, for cryin' out loud!