NYTimes: Surveys Show Continuing Decline In Support For Bush, Iraq Operations

[Hissyspit]

http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/01/18/cq_2141.html

Surveys Show Continuing Decline in Support for Bush, Iraq Operations
By Greg Giroux
Published: January 18, 2007
When President Bush delivers his State of the Union speech Tuesday, he will be speaking for the first time to a Congress wholly controlled by Democrats — and to an American public that threw the Republican Party out of congressional power last November in large part because of dissatisfaction with his handling of the Iraq war.

Two public opinion surveys released this week reveal just how skeptical, if not hostile, most Americans are to a Bush administration proposal to send more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq — even with the stated objective of stemming sectarian violence that has created chaos in that war-wracked nation.

According to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, 59 percent of respondents opposed “sending additional U.S. troops to Iraq to help stabilize the country,” with just 36 percent favoring the policy that Bush announced to the nation Jan.10 in a televised speech. The telephone poll of 900 registered voters was conducted Tuesday and Wednesday.

These figures mirrored Bush’s overall job ratings in the same poll: 35 percent of respondents registered approval and 58 percent disapproval, figures that are among the worst of Bush’s six-year presidency.

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While an overwhelming majority of Democrats and most independents have long voiced dissent against the war, the Fox News poll underscores the increasing erosion of support among the long-loyal constituency of self-defined Republicans. Nearly a third in this group said they oppose Bush’s plan to increase the U.S. troop commitment.

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[anitar1]

1. His numbers have to be lower than that. why don't they tell

the truth?

[EST]

3. They have a dog in the fight.

"According to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll"

[maleficentia]

10. Maybe its

a telephone poll of 900 registered FOX viewing voters.

[Erika]

2. Americans have said no to Iraq

Bush might say yes to keep his oil buds in profits. But we've said no. He's killed enough of our kids.

[racaulk]

7. Indeed!

He's killed enough innocent Iraqis also. Enough is enough! :mad:

[Peace Patriot]

4. The NYT is now using Fox News polls? I guess this shouldn't surprise us,

since the NYT was no better than Fox News back in 2003, when some honest reporting might have prevented the slaughter of 100,000 innnocent people, and the frigging disaster that that has now caused.

Anybody here believe that Bush has 35% of the American people wanting more death in Iraq? I saw some other poll the other day that it was 13%. I think these Fox numbers are fiddled. And the NYT just swallows it whole.

Where's Judith? She would call this a "surge." Wow, 35% of the people fooled again! We're making progress, Ahmad! We're winning! Now where did you say you took that poll?

[Raster]

5. K&R! Of course bush* will continue to say yes to more troops, more violence, more death.

In his mind, that is *HIS* only option. To do anything other than surge and stay the course would be admitting he made *a* mistake and was wrong. bush* will continue to say yes and use other war-extending tactics to drag out his Middle East mess until someone else takes office and has to deal with the carnage. Even though the clear majority of Americans say NO!, bush* will continue to defy both logic and the will of the people.

[bdamomma]

6. bush will be giving his speech on Tuesday, this hopefully

will fuel more discourse between them and us, for that big demonstration in DC on Jan. 27th. Now is the time to not stay silent.

[Beetwasher]

8. "...skeptical, if not hostile..."

Oh, they ain't seen nuthin' yet.

[theHandpuppet]

9. You know what scares me?

That there are actually 36% of the American people who support this lunacy! WHO THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE??? :argh:

[disndat]

12. It's a Faux News poll

so more likely, it is 15% pro-Bush and 85% against if a real poll were taken.

[The Wizard]

11. Waging war without popular support

didn't work in Vietnam and it won't work now. Johnson and Nixon were taken down because they failed to yeild to the will of the the people. We do not live in a monarchy yet, much to the dismay of George III..
Declare victory, bring home the troops, embrace them and fully fund veterans programs. That's the only way to address the Bush disaster. This is Bush's war.

[Patrick J Fitzgerald]

13. After Cheney Resigns

I expect we will see a temporary rise in the polls for President Bush.

http://patrickjfitzgerald.blogspot.com

[liberal renegade]

15. I wish he'd hurry

because I can't take much more.

[liberal renegade]

14. They'll never get all the blood

washed off their hands. Anybody who supported these bozos and their criminal crusade to save the iraqi people from Saddam, are in fact accessory's to the crime of murder, IMHO.

Commander Cuckoo Bananas poll numbers should read -100%