Steady State for Bush Approval Continues (43% approval - Gallup)

[sabra]

http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=21019

Steady State for Bush Approval Continues
Latest approval rating at 43%

GALLUP NEWS SERVICE

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds continued stability in public opinion about President George W. Bush, as his 43% job approval rating has not wavered in over a month's worth of polling. Likewise, Bush's approval ratings for his handling of specific issues also show little change when compared to Gallup's most recent readings. Of the seven issues tested, Bush is rated most positively for his handling of terrorism, and lowest for his handling of immigration.

The Jan. 20-22 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds 43% of Americans approving of the job Bush is doing as president. That is the same rating Bush received in three prior Gallup polls, dating back to a Dec. 19-22, 2005, survey. His disapproval rating during that time has been 53% or 54%.

Bush's approval rating has been in the low 40s since early December, after falling to a new low of 37% in November. Public approval of Bush was last at or above 50% in May 2005.

Across the last four polls in which he received 43% approval ratings, Bush has averaged an 87% approval rating among Republicans and 12% among Democrats. That approval rating among Republicans is the highest among key subgroups, while the Democratic approval rating is among the lowest (along with 11% among liberals).

[GR]

1. 36% From American Research Group...I'll Take That One...

43% do not approve of this dictator, would-be king...

[UpInArms]

13. graphic showing Gallup is always on the high side

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Hmm. What about the ARG poll yesterday? 36% AR ??nt

[cyberpj]

3. AND 52% of Zogby poll want impeachment.

Zogby poll: Majority supports impeaching Bush for wiretapping
WASHINGTON, D.C. — By a margin of 52 to 43 percent, citizens want Congress to impeach President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of Pres. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

The poll was conducted by Zogby International.

The poll found that 52 percent of respondents agreed with the statement: "If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."

Of those contacted, 43 percent disagreed, and 6 percent said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a margin of error of 2.9 percent.

[Botany]

4. wrong or is Gallup over sampling republicans again?

36%

January 23, 2006
George W. Bush's Overall Job Approval Rating Returns to Record Low
As American Turn Less Optimistic About the National Economy

George W. Bush's overall job approval rating has returned to its lowest point in Bush's presidency as Americans again turn less optimistic about the national economy according to the latest survey from the American Research Group. Among all Americans, 36% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 58% disapprove. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 34% approve and 60% disapprove.


http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/economy /

[acmejack]

8. Gallup is always full of (sh)it!

They have very little remaining credibility IMO.

[Botany]

18. Years ago when George Gallup started the poll

and for many years after that he insisted that he polls were
valid and the sampling was accurate. However George Gallup
is dead and gone and his once good name is being dragged
through the mud by an organization that has an agenda.

[acmejack]

24. That is absolutely true.

I couldn't agree with you more, there was a time when it was synonymous with opinion poll.

[Botany]

29. My Dad knew George Gallup .....

.....
George Gallup demanded fair sampling and stat. accuracy and built his biz
on trying to get it right no matter where the answer was.
I wish his heirs would buy back his name from that abortion of polling
organization that Gallup is now.

[Cocoa]

5. stuck in a rut = staying the course

just like the economy and Iraq. :rofl:

[NYC Liberal]

6. Wait, when did 57 percent disapproval become a GOOD

thing?

Oh that's right - the last 5 years. George Bush: lowering the bar, on EVERYTHING!

[AX10]

7. ARG and Ipsos Reid have him under 40%.

57% disapproval is a very poor rating.

[sabra]

9. Zogby too.

[catmandu57]

10. I used to trust gallup and cnn

but, I don't now. I don't believe I can ever put anymore faith in either of these companies.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. LOL: Stability

When more than half think you're a douchebag, is stability really a positive word anymore?

:rofl:

[yorkiemommie1]

12. ' 11% among liberals ' ???

:wtf:

[Mithras61]

14. That's easy...

Thinking _Bush is a douchebag means you're a liberal. See? :)



Edited to add: Sorry, I misunderstood the question. Apparently 11% of "liberals" think _Bush is doing a good job. Of course, we have to ask ourselves what % of "liberals" gets their news solely from broadcast media (especially from Faux or CNN), in which case they have a very high likelihood of having multiple misconceptions about the state of things in the world...

[hadrons]

17. '11% among liberals' = 11% of Repukes LYING about being liberals

[robbedvoter]

15. Gallup: Dewey beats Truman.

All polls are BS - but Gallup takes the cake.

[Botany]

20. That was not Gallup.

But a Chicago Newspaper's headline.

Gallup @ one time was very good ...... sadly not any more.

[robbedvoter]

21. Gallup declared it early in the race. Most voted for 3rd party candidate

based on that. Truman had been dismissed thanks to Gallup. I know from people who lived through that.
I'm sure the headline had Gallup to thank for.

[Lasher]

16. Here's Real Clear Politics

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls.html

Right now they're using 5 different polls to come up with a RCP average of 43.6% approval.

[Mithras61]

19. Gosh, imagine that...

5 out of 5 of the most NeoGOP slanted polls think _Bush is doing a fair to middlin' job...

From your link:
President George W. Bush - Job Approval Ratings
= Poll
= Date
= Approve
Rasmussen
1/16 - 1/18
46%

Hotline/FD
1/12 - 1/15
46%

Survey USA
1/13 - 1/15
41%

CNN/USA Today/Gallup
1/9 - 1/12
43%

FOX News
1/10 - 1/11
42%

Golly, do you think there might be a tie-in between the fact that these polls were conducted by media outlets with a conservative bias & the results of these polls?

[Lasher]

23. Guess so.

Hit the link where it says, Click Here to See All Job Approval Poll Data and you will see all the polls listed. I think that's interesting.

[Mithras61]

26. I prefer this one...

I think it gives a better understanding of the results and relationships of the polls to reality.

[Lasher]

28. Yes, I like Pollkatz - Here's their web site

This is the web site where your graphic came from: http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/

[wordpix]

22. if you can believe this stat, it's another indication the sheeple are

still sleeping in their ignorance

[Demeter]

25. How many dead people did they have to survey to get it up that high?

Give us a break, here.

[bush_is_wacko]

27. Well if you poll the same group of idiots over and over again you get

the same idiotic results in this country. Some people are just immovable. I suspect they are polling the immovable ones since the other polls are telling a completely different story. Hi approval rating is way DOWN in several other polls and the American public seems to want to see a trial over the warrantless wiretapping.

[iconoclastNYC]

30. The cup is 40% FULL not 60% empty!

Polishing a turd much Gallup?

[maryallen]

31. What a headline!

With a 43% approval rating?

Steady? The very last human in the USA that should be described as "steady" is GWB.

More like: "Not-A-Clue Bush"

or

"Under-Qualified, Ill-Prepared, Lyin' George."

[CJCRANE]

32. Bush steadily UNPOPULAR

DISAPPROVAL at 54%.

[Voltaire99]

33. A much larger crisis of faith in US politics than merely Bush's numbers...

Democrats, too, are in the toilet on approval numbers.

Clearly, Americans are showing their refusal to believe in the two-party chimera. They're as disgusted with the tyrant as they are with his appeasers.

I take some courage from that response. If the present nadir in American politics continues, we may just see the birth of a *real* alternative to the Republicans.