Bush job rating hits record low in NBC/WSJ poll

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's approval rating has dropped to 29 percent in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday, his lowest mark ever in that survey, which also found only 23 percent approved of the job Congress was doing.

Bush's approval rating slid 6 points from 35 percent in April, NBC said, citing a decline in support within his own Republican Party. Sixty-six percent said they disapproved of Bush's job performance.

In the poll, 62 percent of Republicans approved of Bush's job performance, down from 75 percent in April. Thirty-two percent of Republicans in the latest poll disapproved of Bush's performance, up from 21 percent in April.

NBC tied the drop in Republican support to Bush's efforts to promote an immigration reform measure that many conservative Republicans oppose. Polls have also shown a decline in Bush's popularity due to the war in Iraq.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1340797820070614

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Cutting spotted owl habitat will help that a lot

:eyes:

[flash gordon]

2. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

I was just watching John Stewart's The Daily Show, they reported on the fact that we are now giving weapons to the in surgents to fight Al-Qe-eda?

All of corporate the press today have been repeating the same talking point, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", has now come full circle.

Remember we funded and equiped Al-Qe-eda to fight Russia in the eighties, and we funded and quiped Iraq to fight Iran in the seventies. Now, we are we have them fighting each other. Witch some might think this is a good idea. You know the old saying, "you can always have one half of the poor kill the other half" applies. I guess if you're a sadistic son of a bitch like Cheney.

One problem is that we don't know who is who. The other problem is that we have over 150,000 service members standing in the middle of a free fire zone.

I got to give our trusted media (?) and leaders(?) credit. They did say this might back fire. You think? Or, is this how the Cheney/Bush administration plans to keep the war unmanageable and unwinable to justify staying the course?

My brain hearts.

[Straight Shooter]

7. good points

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[caledesi]

13. Excellent post. Welcome to DU. NT

[against all enemies]

26. one problem with your history

in the 70's iran under the shah was our friend, hence why they are now the only nation now flying f-14's (not positive on the exact model of the plane) it wasn't until after the revolution in 1979 that we started funding Saddam in his war against Iran. Saddam wanted to use the turmoil caused by the revolution to expand Iraqi territory.. Saddam was funded earlier as he was staunchly anti-communist and purged the Iraqi Communist Party with our approval.]



edit: oops, using the computer at my families house and accidentally posted using my dads name...




tchunter

[Double T]

3. Single digit approval for bush is attainable as he continues.........

his 'hard work' alienating just about EVERYONE!!

[ginnyinWI]

4. It's as if he were trying to lower it.

He's been worse than his usual stubborn, rude self lately. He simply doesn't care what people think. They call it "bunker mentality", and he's got a bad case of it.

Have all of his handlers just cut him loose? Or are they unable to stop him? He has nothing to lose, I guess. But he does. He needs the repubs in Congress. And they aren't listening anymore.

[chknltl]

5. Well he IS the "Uniter" ya' know.

We are becoming more and more united each day. :patriot:

[saigon68]

14. I knew he was the "Decider"

[bluestateguy]

6. He'll bottom out at 15% if he pushes the immigration bill

For the record, the all time, ALL TIME low for any president in any national poll is 21%, which was Jimmy Carter's rating in July, 1980, in a Gallup Poll. Bush could beat him.

[superconnected]

23. Why was Carters rating that low then?

I really don't know.

[Art_from_Ark]

29. It had a lot to do with the Iran hostage situation,

including the botched rescue attempt in late April 1980. The TV news programs were devoting half of their air time each night to reminding us that the American embassy hostages still had not been released

[Miss Chybil]

8. Not very many Republicans left, are there? nt

[Frank Cannon]

9. If Bush's approval rating is 29%, my IQ is 180.

I don't know a SINGLE person who approves of the job he's done. Not one.

Even the Republicans with "Bush/Cheney" stickers on their cars know what a useless piece of shit he is. They just don't care.

[MUAD_DIB]

22. That's a pretty smart post you have there.

I agree with you. What's to stop the media from edging up * poll numbers just a little?

They've carried water for him a long time. Maybe they are just deflating him little by little to make his sagging numbers look reasonable.

[CJCRANE]

10. 66% disapproval n/t

[Barrett808]

11. Prof. Pollkatz graphs show lowest rating ever:

http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

16. If this graph demonstrates nothing else

it's that the Bush Admin needs another Terrorist attack. It's like sweeps week for them.

[Barrett808]

17. I don't know, I think another attack on US soil would pretty much doom the Bush mob

I suspect even the Backwash would turn on them.

[krispos42]

19. Not even that

9/11 was seen as an unprovoked attack. I think if something happened again, it would be just like "Well, thanks a lot for provoking them!" attitude, hopefully followed by a resignation or impeachment.

[Demeter]

12. Lowering the Presidential Bar Since 2000

Limbo lower now....limbo lower now....how low can you go?

Like to see dubya squeezing under two Coke bottles....

[Roland99]

15. Honored to rec this one onto the Greatest Page!

:D

[benld74]

18. Let's play the Bush LIMBO!

DA DA DA DA DA DA DA
DA DA DA DA DA DA DA
DA DA DA DA DA DA DA
DA DA DA DA DA DA DA
How LOW can he GO?

[pat_k]

20. To bad their failure to impeach is driving Congressional approval thru the floor.

Perhaps the political damage will wake them up to the fact that Americans are crying out for them to actually DO SOMETHING real -- and under rule by signing statement the ONLY thing that is not impotent gesture is to impeach Bush and Cheney. Tragically, their http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=337814">collective denial and delusion has probably led them to conclude that their approval is plummeting because they've "overreached."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pelosi12jun12,0,7184922.story?coll=la-home-center">Approval of Congress lowest in a decade

[barb162]

21. And congress is even lower at 23%

Sad.

[superconnected]

24. Had pelosie not sold us out, it may have been higher.

[barb162]

27. I don't know the underlying factors of the poll and didn't pay

too much attention other than to the headline. And I don' know if the pollsters asked the people why they made their decisions. There sure is widespread dissatisfaction!

[Peace Patriot]

25. Anybody notice the 23% approval rating for Congress? So much for the '06

(s)elections brought to you by the rightwing Bushite electronic voting corporations who are now counting all your votes with "trade secret" proprietary programming code, so you don't have to.

Why bother with democracy, when war is so much more profitable?

Next time Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid say they "just don't have the votes" to stop the war, and to impeach Bush/Cheney, and instead must escalate the war and let these criminals continue to kill, loot and lie to us, ask them, what DID they expect from the following corporations counting all our votes under a veil of corporate secrecy...

DIEBOLD: Until recently, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004"; and

ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things).

But you are not likely to get a straight answer.

23%! Tut-tut. Worse approval rating than Bush. It's time to...

THROW DIEBOLD AND ES&S ELECTION THEFT MACHINES INTO 'BOSTON HARBOR'!

[candice]

28. Jeez, it's been a long long time since the Supremes appointed the Loser...