Bush Free Fall Continues in Three New Polls

[RedEarth]

Bush Free Fall Continues in New Polls

Following up on a dismal CBS News survey earlier this week, two new polls by Fox News and CNN/USA Today/Gallup bring more bad news for President Bush. From the Fox News poll:

- 39 percent of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing, only the second time Bush has fallen below 40 percent in Fox polling

- 81 percent believe Iraq is likely to end up in a civil war.

- 69 percent oppose allowing Dubai Ports World to manage U.S. ports.

From CNN/USA Today/Gallup:

- 38 percent approve of the job Bush is doing, a rating “mired near its record low” of 37 percent.

- 47 percent approve how he is handling terrorism, “down 7 points since early February and a record low.”

- 64 percent disapprove of Bush’s handling of Iraq, a record high.

- 52 percent do not find Bush “honest and trustworthy,” tying November’s worst-ever mark.

UPDATE: Quinnipac:

Only 36 percent of voters approve of the job President Bush is doing, while 58 percent disapprove, his worst approval rating in a Quinnipiac University national poll and down 9 points from his 45 - 48 percent approval rating one year ago.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/02/fox-poll/

[ristruck]

1. Hope for the future!!

I actually am more hopeful for our future than I have ever been. The serious problems like Iraq, our penchant for Imperialism, health-care, social security, and campaign finance reform on the home-front now have a chance to be truly dealt with. Why do I say this? Now that many of us have learned our lesson about the false marketing using the flag and religion we can take the rose colored glasses off. The apple pie presidency is a naive notion and the honest non-politicians like Feingold and Kucinich will maybe be heard. Once you get beyond the rhetoric, the platitudes and the facade you start to look at issues. This is at least what I have been doing. (A work in progress) Taking the issues on their merits you begin to really see that we have some major problems. Taking health-care and education as two examples we have a completely uneven playing field. We would not tolerate such unfairness in sports but we look the other way in these areas because of the lack of education on our own behalf.

Clearly we need a national health-care program. The facts seem so obvious when you study the issue. Clearly the methods used to fund education are fostering the continuation of repressed opportunities for the ones who need a chance and all we are doing is stacking the deck against them and then the ignorant ridicule the oppressed while they brandish their cheesy and false form of Christianity.

Here is my point, now that the smoke is clearing the truth is being seen by many more than just myself. We have been duped and we are now looking deeper. Looking deeper at the Republican brand of conservatism is making us ill. Looking deeper at the problems and the potential solutions make us desire progress. It is this desire for progress and truth that has led me to conclude that the progressive movement is what this country now needs and I have become a fan of the ones that made a stand when it was not popular. It may not be totally popular now but the American people are starting to wake up. At least this is my hope. I hope for a better future for my children and I am scared of the people who are now in charge. I just pray that we can rid ourselves of them before they do too much more damage.

[ladjf]

3. But, what about the rigged voting machines?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. As Pleased As I Am With This, I Have Concerns.

It's great to see him do so poorly as it shows many are becoming more aware to his crap. But he isn't up for re-election this november, Congress is. What I'm starting to worry about is that Bush is getting all of the negative focus of the GOP since he's a lame duck anyway, and most of the criminals in congress are still under the radar (except for Delay, but what the fuck ever happened to the Frist Trading scandal?)

We need to find a way to shift the negative focus off of Bush and square onto congress and the poor job they are doing. We need from now till november pound into the american people's minds that Congress is failing, that Congress is incompetent and that we need change there drastically to improve our country in the necessary ways. As long as the focus keeps being on Bush and his failings the repubs just simply have to act anti-bush policy come campaign time and steal our issues from under us. We need to hit them hard by getting THEIR names, and THEIR incompetencies front and center. May the abramoff investigation and Fitzmas part deux be with us in that effort :)