Bush Job Approval (Bush Rasmussen #s DOWN Full Polling Cycle After SOTU)

[Mark E. Smith]

Saturday February 4, 2006 - Forty-five percent (45%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Fifty-four percent (54%) disapprove.

Data for this report is collected via nightly telephone interviews and released on a three-day rolling average basis. Today is the first update in which that all interviews were conducted after the President's State-of-the-Union Address.

Today: 45% Approve 54% Disapprove
Feb 3: 46% Approve 53% Disapprove
Feb 2: 47% Approve 52% Disapprove
Feb 1: 48% Approve 51% Disapprove

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

Is this a first? A president's approval rating going DOWN after a State of the Union address?

[Warpy]

1. The rhetoric over the health care savings accounts is starting to

sink in among all those folks who are barely keeping body and soul together, are being gouged six ways from Sunday by insurance companies or haven't had insurance for years, and who realize that being required to buy insurance on top of putting money they don't have into a savings account for ordinary expenses is JUST PLAIN NUTS.

Plus, the boob had no plan to get us the hell out of his pet war.

[kcdoug1]

2. so much

for the SOTU "Bounce"

[ashling]

10. Sounds like a swing tune

The SOTU Bounce with Georgey Bush and the Terra Tones:

"How low can you go?"

[54anickel]

3. Eww, and Strongly Approve is only 25%, that's pretty much down to his

base only.

[alarcojon]

19. I think it's even lower than his base

I've always thought his base was in the low 30's.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Wonder if the corporate media will finally get the message

Bush is a loser.
(Guess it'd be too much to hope for that they might also begin to wonder how a politician who's this unpopular could have won the Whitehouse without cheating)

[bluestateguy]

5. Maybe we should encourage Bush to take to the stump more often

nt

[madrchsod]

8. it`s worked well for this guy

the guy running against him has raised more money because of that photo...it`s a political kiss of death

[Old and In the Way]

14. Last year Lieberman, this year Cuellar........

Is this a new facet to the Bush SOTU? Public outing of Republicans under cover?

[ktlyon]

9. no

I think we are already paying for his trips to speak around the country. He speaks everyday somewhere. He flies in at our expense and speaks to selected supporters. It is all spin and I am tired of paying for it. It may even be illegal.

[madrchsod]

6. ahhh...

the orgazismic glow is fading away and the wet spot is getting cold...

[rooboy]

7. The only person who can advise Bush and his followers now...

is Jim Jones.

[fshrink]

11. I'd love that trend to go on for 45 days!

Hey, it's early in the morning. I'm silly.

[RedEarth]

12. poor george .... people didn't buy into your line of bullshit

I still find it unbelievable and tragic that 45% of the public still approve of this fool.

[boobooday]

13. Stop treating the American people like they are MORANS

Who can't see through your lies and more lies about lies.

What was that saying? I know it was in Texas, maybe Tennessee too . . . or maybe it was a song, by The Who . . . in any case, it applies here . . . Fool me . . . can't get fooled again?

[qazplm]

15. its fairly unprecedented

I mean most of the bumps have been very temporary but there was at least SOME bump for SOME period of time.

This is a steady trendline down (and we know rasmussen is consistently higher than just about any other poll in calculating presidential approval)

[joefree1]

16. Wow, get that man on TV

In ever state where we want to win in 2006. He's gone from recruiting for the terrorist to being the best thing for Democratic candidates.

Can you say Worst Ever? I knew that you could.

[EVDebs]

17. Lies based upon planning 30 yrs old....reach critical mass...

the center cannot hold...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2432151

""Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. ""

from The Second Coming, by Yeats
http://www.well.com/user/eob/poetry/The_Second_Coming.html

Rove was who Yeats had in mind there, btw.

[spooky3]

18. this is within the margin of error but it does not look good for *

no matter what.

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. Someone else had him at 39%. What happened?

[hatrack]

26. ARG had him at 39% - Rasmussen always pulls high Puke numbers

I think (though can't remember precisely) that it's one of those things where they simply poll about 5% more Pukes than Democrats and then (surprise!) end up with poll results that lean right.

[jazzjunkysue]

21. Cue the band: ("Hail To The Thief")

[mvd]

22. Just imagaine how low he really is, then!

It was a poor speech. He smirked so much that he came across to more than just us as pulling one over on America.

[ignatius 2]

23. He said by 2025 we will cut dependence on foreign oil by 75%. The

very next day, the secretary of energy said Bush was not speaking "literally." BWAHAAHA!!!! Weapons of mass destruction..not speaking LITERALLY?..Osama..get him dead or alive..not speaking LITERALLY?Mission accomplished..not speaking LITERALLY?

His credibility is way past gone and we will need a speaking literally for dummies guide to know when he is embellishing or just downright lying.

The king is a delusional fool and many are finally seeing the light of truth!!

[Mark E. Smith]

24. Drops Again Today To 44%

We could be looking at the worst reaction to a SOTU speech ever.

[Army]

25. 50% in Iraq

Support attacking troops. So more of them support attacking us than Americans support the Coward in Chief. Veddy interesting.

[VirginiaDem]

27. If bush is dropping to 45 and then 44 after the SOTU

in Rasmussen, he's in big trouble. I've got a theory (alway the optimist, I am): the silver lining to Alito's nomination temporarily reuniting conservatives after the off-year elections and Harriet Myers had started to drive them apart is that Republican Senators and Representatives have now spent the last month and a half tying themselves further to the president rather than breaking away. The biggest advantage we have in a nationalized election is this one of ties to Bush. And now is when the candidate recruitment is finishing off and the fundraising is in high gear. We're out recruiting them and out fundraising them (at least relative to normal cycles).

Republicans are fasting approaching the point of no return when it will be too late to distance themselves from a sunk president.