Rasmussen: President Bush Job Approval (#s are in a tailspin)

[Mark E. Smith]

Friday January 06, 2006 -- Forty-four percent (44%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as president. Fifty four percent (54%) disapprove.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm

Too high by far, I know. But look at it this way - 2 weeks to the day Freeporama was crowing about a Rasmussen number that put Bush's approval at 50%. It was right after his series of speeches that were designed to win back America's support for whatever it is he thinks he is doing with the disaster in Iraq, and both Rasmussen and the Washington Post/ABC poll had registered a significant jump for The Little President.

Sure didn't last very long ..

[mwb970]

1. He'll never see 50% again.

No matter what the nattering Hannities say.

[ecoalex]

20. War with Iran will boost his sorry #s

With Booshco it's all about manipulating the sheeple.

PLACE YER BETS LADIES AND GENTLEMAN

[conflictgirl]

25. I disagree

If he's dumb enough to go to war with Iran, I don't think he's going to have popular support. I think it would further sink his numbers.

[LynnTheDem]

28. If bush attacks Iran, the 20,000+ dead US troops the 1st day

probably won't boost bush's approval rating.

By the 3rd month, when China occupies Wisconsin, I bet bush's ratings won't be in the 40s.

[d_b]

42. LOL

"By the 3rd month, when China occupies Wisconsin, I bet bush's ratings won't be in the 40s."

That's aweomse. :rofl:

[DELUSIONAL]

31. Even the hard core Republicans I know are against attacking Iran

People are well aware of what the war is costing -- both in lives and money.

There are the hard core cult members -- probably 15% who will worship bushie no matter what he does and then another 15% who vote for him because they are voting against the liberals. These are my educated guesses from reading polls and the way the questions are structured.

Also I believe that there is a bell curve of opinions -- that is for the 10% of us who never trusted bushie -- even post 9-11 there are 10 to 15% who will blindly follow bushie no matter where he leads. If he says the sky is green -- his true believers will see a green sky.

[Gloria]

41. It sure would be nice if DC Dems would preempt Bush on Iran....

by following Clark's lead....that we have never even talked DIRECTLY to Iran and that we should be talking to the countries in the region as well as Iran about the region as a whole, including Iraq.

Even the dumbest American could follow that.

I'm afraid if Bush launches a sudden attack we'll see a lot of Dems dutifully following along....

[Michigander4Dean]

40. From your lips to God's ears | nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I just can't believe his numbers are event that high.

I wonder if the GOP is hacking into the polling sites and fixing the numbers.

[Evergreen Emerald]

3. Of course they are

They are controlling every aspect of the media except the internet and they are working on that.

[0007]

38. They don't have too! They are the polling sites.

[Jersey Ginny]

4. Economy helps in the American house of cards

The economy/stock market is chugging along which makes no sense to me, but it is. That's probably good for 15% of his numbers. Then there are just the 20% of the wackos who can't be reasoned with.

[rodeodance]

5. Jr and his aides are making a series of speeches about the good

economy---per msnbc just now.

[Zynx]

7. Just wait until the housing market cracks.

It's already starting too, but when it goes in earnest with a rolling series of bubbles bursting from region to region over the next year and a half Bush will be singing a different tune. It is also peculiar that he waited until what is certainly much closer to the end than the beginning of our economic expansion to trumpet the "good news". The economy has been growing for almost five years. If the economy goes into recession a year from now, he will look awfully foolish.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. He always looks foolish.

Its just the way he looks.

What on earth did Laura ever see in that guy?

[jamesinca]

26. What did Laura see in the guy you ask?

He is hung like a horse, didn't you see the pics of him with the flight suit for the "mission accomplished" speech. Yes Laura is slutty and she passed it on to her slutty daughters. George passed on his drug problem to them. I can't prove any of this, it is just a gut feeling.

[Bridget Burke]

36. Laura was tired of working & his family had money.

She tried teaching for a few years & gave it up for library school. Then she was a librarian for a few more years.

She quit her job the minute she married. The girls came along several years later.

[cpamomfromtexas]

39. I feel sorry for her, I bet when she wakes up each morning

she says "WHAT WAS I THINKING?"

Now that song will be playing in your head.

I tell my husband my biggest nightmare would be to wake up and find myself married to a REPUBLICAN!

[grahamhgreen]

10. What? Don't buy into the spin.

The DOW is at the same level as when Bush took over. He has created no new jobs. Wages are stagnant. AND the Bond yeild curve has just inverted, signalling recession. Some corporate profits are up, but that aint doing you and I any good....

Bond Report: Treasurys wrap 2005 with gain, inverted yield curve - Banks - Financial - Financial Services - Bond Market - Currencies - Economy: "Dec. 30, 2005
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - Longer-term Treasurys moved in two directions in a shortened trading session on Friday, pinning their yields below short-term yields this week for the first time since 2000.
.................................

These yields bookend the heart of the so-called yield curve, the graph line that plots the range of yields from shortest to longest maturity. It inverted on Tuesday for the first time in nearly six years invigorating the debate over its accuracy as a harbinger of economic downturn, even recession.
................

"We continue to interpret this type of move as an indication of slower economic growth. The historical record speaks for itself. In the past 30 years, the yield curve has inverted five out of the eight times the Fed has been tightening monetary policy," he wrote in a commentary. "Each of those five times an economic recession has ensued one year later - our fear ... is that this time will be no different."

[trogdor]

12. Stocks were flat for 2005

I think the indicies went up something like 3% for the year, so if you had a bunch of stock mutual funds in your IRA/401K, you got screwed. The SPREAD between the year's high and the year's low was only about 9%, so if you tried to time your purchases, you probably got frustrated and wound up screwing yourself more often than not. I sure didn't make much money on index funds last year, that's for sure.

[grahamhgreen]

34. Indices have gone nowhere since Bush got in office...

[spooky3]

15. The Dow index did not go up at all last year, and it is about where

it was when Bush took office. That means everyone who is saving for retirement, who should have seen a 40% increase on their investments in that time (historically the stock market has returned 8% per year on average), has seen NOTHING. That's what kills me about his supporters. They do better when Democrats are in office (published empirical studies have shown this) but they are too stupid to see it.

[StClone]

29. Stocks barely increased from 2004 into '06

http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/1y/_/_dji

[reprobate]

32. Actually the stock market slipped by half a percent year end.

They can spin all the numbers they want, but the market has been stuck for a couple of years at least.

My CPA says that most of his clients are really bitching about the performance of Mad George's stock market performance.

Seems like nobody likes the poor guy anymore.

[TheWatcher]

35. No it isn't. You are wrong.

The economy is in a shambles, and the Stock Market has absolutely nothing to do with your life or YOUR economy.

The manipulated Casino that is our Stock Market, does not employee people like us in a job, pay our bills, keep food on our table, pay our bills, or sustain our daily lives.

The Stock Market keeps "chugging along" because of massive money printing and direct manipulation/intervention by The Fed, The Large Brokerage Houses, Mutual Funds, Money Center Banks, and basically Big Money. It's a fools game that is indeed benefiting Big MOney, but the majority of this country is not seeing much benefit. In the end, the Middle Class and Poor are being destroyed in the single biggest transfer of wealth our country has ever seen. The Robber Barons would be proud.

And if you look at any chart past October 2003, The Market has gone basically nowhere for two years. It is taking massive liquidity injection just to keep it afloat, although if Bernanke succeeds with his Helicopter Money and Monopoly Runaway Printing and Succeeds in his mad Hyperinflation plan, you might see a new Stock Market Bubble (Engineered to offset the Housing Bubble Crash), but you also might see $7.00 Bread and $10.00 Milk. And you won't benefit from that Stock Market Bubble, because the juicy part of the meat on that bone is reserved for Big Money, and you'll never see it.

I have no idea what scares me more. Our economy collapsing, or that somehow, no matter how obvious it gets as to what consequences lie just around the corner, these Jackals somehow delay the inevitable day after day and keep their illusion of a stable economy alive while the rest of us suffer Death By A Thousand Cuts.

It's a Shell Game.

Don't Buy Into It.

[catmandu57]

6. It's rasmussen

rasmussen is just another finger of the reptilian party, their numbers are always inflated, don't be influenced by what they say, unless they report really low numbers.

[Saturday]

8. Chris Matthews recently

crowed loudly about the President 'recovering' in the polls. I wonder if he will mention this slide. I just wonder. :sarcasm:

[DainBramaged]

11. Chris Matthews will blame the Left for Abramoff today

while showing a large picture of Nixon 2.0's peanut sized member and smacking his lips. When his contract expires I expect him to go dancing to FUCKED News, giving the world even more to hate them for.

[goforit]

30. Chris Mathews is due for a good dose of his own karma.

[ticapnews]

13. THIS I S HUGH!!11!!!

I'm series!

The president's numbers have gone from 50% two weeks ago to 54% now! That's great!

Inside the mind of a FReeper

[Hissyspit]

14. kick

[sabra]

16. can't wait for Scotty to quote this @ the next Gaggle... :-)

[zann725]

17. Again, this IS a "Rasmussen" poll...which skews Rrrright anyway.

Subtract about 10%, and you might have a more accurate estimate.

[PATRICK]

19. And they can make a bump

to kickstart a "rise" in Bush's polling numbers by fudging a lot of things including moving up the margin of error. Until other polling follows and the "bump" suddenly disappears.

Which brings to question that here on DU why react to polls unless we think they are trustworthy and not just the first MSM poll that is put out there? Bad enough we or the Dems don't do other types of polling to check for ourselves what is really going on instead of this sordid media game. dealing with liars who defend the liars. Cut out the middlemen, albeit they are responsible for blowing smoke in the public's eyes. Prove what is really going in people's minds and how much is due in fact to the media disinformation that bounds and surrounds their favorite polling.

It probably won't be flattering toward anyone including the ordinary joe, but it is a step to getting out of the chaos and conflict purposefully inflicted on the nation for the benefit of the crooks in charge.

[inchhigh]

18. Somthing I've been watching...

I've noticed that the numbers don't always add up to 100% which is not a big deal in itself due to rounding. They usually add up toonly 99%. In rare instances they add up to only 98% and so far in every one of those cases his numbers have been dropping. It seems like they purposely keep the Disapprove number down for a day or two until the trend is undeniable and then they finally add that 1% back in.

Just interesting, IMHO.

Frankly, I think the whole poll is hooey but you KNOW his numbers are REALLY bad if Rass says they are bad.

[rocktivity]

21. His numbers always creep up when gas prices go down.

They acutally sank below $2/gal where I live. But right after New Year's Day, the honeymoon's ended--they jumped fifteen cents overnight, and not to cut down on drunk drivers.

:headbang:
rocknation

[cliss]

22. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that....

Bush's numbers are dismal. I believe they're in the high 'teens, or maybe low 20's. I just have this feeling.

Remember a while back, when Bush's numbers went down the toilet? Bush couldn't do anything right. He flailed about, like a fish on a boat dock. Error after goof after botch.

His numbers stayed around 39 - 37 - 38, but they NEVER went below that. Does anybody else think that is strange? It's like his numbers have a FLOOR, and they never go below that.

And I think they know the truth in the White House. That's why they've been coming out with every tactic under the Sun to fix his numbers. Speeches every day, press conferences, "major" speech, Bush flying here and there, Photo-Ops, smiling people.

All for nothing.

[Jackpine Radical]

23. What difference do poll numbers make in a dictatorship?

[Norquist Nemesis]

24. That 'floor' are the hardcore "I hate Democrats and Liberals

are Communists/Socialists/Nazi/Traitors" base of Bush. Think Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and you'll see who's in the approve camp.

[appleannie1]

27. That floor might have a trap door

that opens if China totally swings away from the dollar leaving this country in a recession or even depression.

[Zynx]

33. In national politics both parties have bases around 38-40%.

In straight up elections between the two parties, neither party has done much worse than 38%. Only major third party influence can drive either below that point. I would say it is quite plausible Bush has a hard floor in the 35-38% range.

[Dunvegan]

37. I've found mysterious client clearing number "990N" to be interesting...

More info HERE:

"The entire S&P price action in the futures is being controlled by one counter party. All the guys hate them: their CME clearing number is 990N and they clear through Gelber trading.

That one account is solely responsible for the current level of the S&P. They are the ones that are throwing the S&P up overnight. Then they are the ones that are sitting on the bid all day long, supporting the market action.

Time after time after time 990 just sits there on the bid. Don't they ever go away. They just absorb the entire market and then push the price wherever they want it to go.’ Gee, I wonder who that counter party is?

Intervention at it’s finest, your tax dollars at work, providing the ultimate tax to us all."

[StellaBlue]

43. Hey, wait a minute - why do we even TRY to analyze these numbers?

And shake our heads and say, "I don't BELIEVE that many people like the idiot - how can it BE?".

Wel, duh (AHA moment here for me), the numbers are plain WRONG. As in Bill O'Reilly wrong. As in Diebold wrong. As in Florida 2000 wrong. They're coming from the same corporate media that gave us * and Justice Elito.

I wish I could conclude with, "They mean nothing." But, unfortunately, that's not true. :(