WSJ: Bush's Job-Approval Rating Slips Slightly, Poll Shows (40% approval)

[sabra]

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Bush's Job-Approval Rating
Slips Slightly, Poll Shows

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
February 16, 2006

President George W. Bush's job-approval ratings have fallen off slightly from January 2006, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll, while Congress's ratings have remained about the same.

Any benefit President Bush may have gained from his State of the Union speech didn't last long enough to be measured in the latest poll, as Mr. Bush's ratings are now 40% positive, down from a positive rating of 43% in January, and 58% negative, up from 56% negative.

Elsewhere, approval of the way Congress is handling its job is mostly unchanged, with 25% of U.S. adults giving Congress a positive rating and 71% giving it a negative rating.

Also, roughly one-third of U.S. adults, or 32%, say "things in the country are going in the right direction," and 59% say "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track." In January, 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction and 54% said it was on the wrong track.

[Straight Shooter]

1. And yet the Repub Senators keep bulldozing over our rights.

It's just mind-boggling.

[Spiffarino]

4. As long as they think they're unstoppable, they'll keep doing it.

VVPB, people.

Voter.Verifiable.Paper.Ballots.

[napi21]

2. OK, EVERYBODY, Let's go...

GIVE ME A 30, YEA YEA

GIVE ME A 20 YEA YEA

We need CHEERLEADERS!!!!

[superconnected]

7. I want to see him under 10. Of course him killing people and taking

away their medicad won't do it. How can we convince these idiots that the biggest criminal they ever met is in front of their faces?

[Mithras61]

19. Won't ever happen...

There's a good 25-27% that would think he's doing a dandy job if he was killing babies and using their bodies to practice his football moves on national TV. They'd claim that it was all taken out of context and doesn't prove that * hates babies.

[WePurrsevere]

9. You're right...

:bounce: :woohoo: or great and I love them sometimes the occasion truly calls for a few

Here's hoping Bush's journey to single digits increases day by day. B-)

[Beetwasher]

3. Ha! And That's Pre-"Deadeye"

I wonder what Deadeye's numbers look like.

[superconnected]

5. Unfortunately, I work with the stupidest republican supporter

in america, so I know where the 40 percent comes from. Her and her family.

She couldn't wait to tell me Cheney took responsibiltiy this morning, even though she denied he was responsible yesterday.

Today she was lamenting that she wished she could vote for dumbya again because it felt so good.

She even told my gay co-worker that gay is like eating to much. They could choose not to.

Oh, and she told us, that a woman who had a severly deformed child that wasn't going to live chose not to get an abortion because it's the only 9 months she would have with the child. That's why she's against abortion in all cases, and for all women.

I'm positive, they polled her and her family. Nobody else is that stupid!

[marmar]

6. That's frightful...

I work with a similar woman, but she's been as quiet as an anorexic mouse this week.

[superconnected]

8. oh my co-worker won't shut her mouth for anything.

I'm always wispering "how does her husband put up with it", to my other co-workers.

[greekspeak]

15. Being a kool-aid drinking asshole is like eating too much

They could just choose not to be one. I would throw that back in this piece of shit's face and let her choke on that for a while. Of course, it sounds like if they put an hour long marathon live Kitten eating contest with Shrub, Cheney, the cabinet and the pukiest senators around, she would probably say that there are too many kittens in the world and they don't have souls anyway.

[Bluestar]

10. Slip Slightly? 3 Points in a Month--More than Slightly!! n/t

[0007]

16. Yeah? How can it slip from 37% to 40%?

[godai]

25. Yes, represents nearly a 10% decline. Why is this considered "slightly"?

40/43= 93%, a 7 % decrease. Actually, that extent of decline is huge. Still, there're those 30% (right direction) who would support *, even if he SHOT someone!! Oh, yeah, Cheney actually did that.

[Star]

11. Can the dems take advantage of this?

If they can't, then we need to find new dems who can.

I'm so tired of seeing these poll numbers down so low, but they still get away with everything they do.

I really thought the media would stop being such enablers once his approval numbers went down, but it hasn't happened yet. Wonder when it will?

[Writer]

12. Bush approval rating slips from "shitty" to "a bit more shitty."

Story at 10. ;)

[niallmac]

17. Yeah. Following B*tards popularity rating is like

checking the septic tank dip stick. What's the point? It always stinks.

[LynnTheDem]

13. 59% say "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track."

Gee ya think?

[AndyTiedye]

14. Off The Track, Careening Through the Station, and Crashing into the Street

[zann725]

18. He's been "slipping" at or under40 for months now. PLEASSEE!

His approval ratings can NOT be much higher than his co-partner in crime, Darth. I'm guessing 30 at tops, though below that...well below, would be no surprise...particularly post-Katrina.

[SpiralHawk]

20. S.O.S. for the S.S. ChimPee

slowly sinking...

Cause: Overloaded with corruption, ineptitude, and malfeasance.

[Hissyspit]

21. WSJ: Bush Job-Approval Rating Slips

Bush's Job-Approval Rating
Slips Slightly, Poll Shows

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
February 16, 2006

President George W. Bush's job-approval ratings have fallen off slightly from January 2006, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll, while Congress's ratings have remained about the same.

Any benefit President Bush may have gained from his State of the Union speech didn't last long enough to be measured in the latest poll, as Mr. Bush's ratings are now 40% positive, down from a positive rating of 43% in January, and 58% negative, up from 56% negative.

Elsewhere, approval of the way Congress is handling its job is mostly unchanged, with 25% of U.S. adults giving Congress a positive rating and 71% giving it a negative rating.

Also, roughly one-third of U.S. adults, or 32%, say "things in the country are going in the right direction," and 59% say "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track." In January, 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction and 54% said it was on the wrong track.

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[leftyladyfrommo]

22. I don't see anyway he can get his ratings up

Not after all the scandals and Katrina and now Cheney.

It's just all over the board that these guys are just a bunch of crooks and cronies. The only way out is to vote them all out.

[Hissyspit]

23. Except that they keep stealing the votes. n/t

[Moderator]

24. DUplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2111978

[llmart]

26. I'm sure it's less than that.....

two words "interactive poll" - means it's not very accurate.