Another Poll Finds Bush Sinking

[jefferson_dem]

:popcorn:

Another Poll Finds Bush Sinking

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, August 24, 2005; 1:22 PM

There's an old riddle that goes: What do you get when you give a reporter two facts and a deadline? The answer is: A trend.

Well, folks, by that standard, we've got ourselves a trend.

The Harris Poll is out today, showing President Bush's approval rating down sharply over the past two months to 40 percent. Just two days ago, the American Research Group also found it down sharply, to 36 percent.

In both cases, those are all-time lows for Bush that put him in dangerously unpopular territory. And the results lead inescapably to the conclusion that the American people are deeply unhappy with the war in Iraq and blame the president.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/08/24/BL2005082401209.html

[distantearlywarning]

1. Now this is some good news for once!

Are the sheeple finally waking up????

Let's start aiming for the 20's....

[Richardo]

2. Why not blame the president? Who else is there?

Modest proposal: Start referring to it as 'his war in Iraq', not 'the war in Iraq'.

That'll bring it in a little closer for the RW crowd.

[iconoclastic cat]

39. Or maybe, "The Republicans' war in Iraq."

[sniffa]

3. how can the peopLe bLame the president?

it's john kerry's fauLt, if i remember correctLy.

aLthough i'm hearing now, that it's actuaLLy cindy sheehan's fauLt.

[neuvocat]

4. MAybE VALues are to bLAME

[Brotherjohn]

6. It's CLINTON'S FAULT, you doofus!!

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[MADem]

26. Perhaps Big Dawg's manly organ is the true culprit!!!

The wicked Clenis....the cause of the war, the high gas prices, and the decline of moral values...yeah, that's the ticket!!!!!

[jefferson_dem]

7. I actually heard Limpball's break into sweaty hives over the Big Dawg Bill

yesterday. When in doubt...they predictably back to the same reactionary TP. They are so ultra-desperate to pin the bLame on someone...anyone other than their chimp-boy.

[hyphenate]

32. No, no, no--you have it wrong

It's Clinton's penis's fault!! Didn't you get the memo?

[bluestateguy]

5. Not ready to celebrate yet...but the champagne is on ice

Seeing these numbers, I wish it were August of 2006 and not August of 2005, however.

[meganmonkey]

8. I wish I could lose my winter weight

as quickly as bush** loses popularity points!
:rofl:
(and yes, I mean last year's winter weight. and the year before that :P )

[myrna minx]

24. I have gained bu$h administration weight.

I can't wait for the pounds to melt off once he's thrown out of office. ;-)

[LisaLynne]

27. I hear ya!

It's all that munching away frustration or to stop yourself from grinding your teeth ...

[hippiechick]

9. ok, well what's that 65% gonna DO about it ?

.. they should have thought about these things last year when they had the opportunity to soundly vote his ass out of DC .. now we're all sorta stuck with him.

:puke:

[wakeme2008]

10. Add the the Repugs' Iraqi War

The cost of Gas... and the Repugs are in trouble...

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Beetwasher]

11. My Prediction: Gallup Will Show Bush Has a Slight Uptick

or even with their last poll. That's their job. Just watch.

[Brotherjohn]

17. I agree. If there was a poll that was biased, I'd say it's theirs.

I don't even count Fox.

[bucknaked]

12. Typical RW response: "So what, he's not running!"

At this rate though, I hope he's all over the country with endorsements next year!

[Inland]

25. But there's a point to that...... low poll numbers don't control them.

Bush is still president and the republicans are still the majority, and they can pretty much do whatever they want, because they, and not polls, are in charge.

Bush's true believers always knew that his positions weren't backed by a majority. The strategy of the Bush adminstration was to lie and deceive about policy and push it through, so that no matter what else happened, it was too late to do anything about it.

Deficits appear. Too late, tax cuts already gave away all the money to the rich.

Climate change confirmed. Too late, we already put consumption as the top priority in the energy policy.

Iraq war sucks. Well, whaddya gonna do?

And when it turns out that Roberts really is as conservative as we suspected, it'll be too late for that, too.

[hyphenate]

33. Typical RW response: "So what, he's not running!"

He's not running for the office of prez, but I sure hope to hell he's running from the law which hopefully will catch up with him before he crosses the Mexican border into the arms of his friend, Fox.

[ronnykmarshall]

13. Que that damn Titanic song .....

[cliss]

29. Love the photos, RM.

It seems that there could be something to that idea of Positive Visualization, after all.

I've been visualizing Bush sinking, Sinking, capsizing in the polls.
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I'm just wondering - what's the lowest poll data for a president? Is Bush breaking new records? Or does he have a ways to go yet?

Bush just has to break some kind of record, after all. He's so useless.

[ronnykmarshall]

36. You got sweetie!!

I thinking about a big ass iceberg right now!

[gratuitous]

14. And yet today in the Oregonian

There was a letter from a pro-war chowderhead (surprisingly not from somewhere in Iraq) about the slant of all the anti-war news in the Oregonian -- apparently they had an item on page D19 -- that actually cited the "silent majority" of the population that supports the Dim Son.

Wotta larf. Except for all the dead bodies, of course.

[SoCalDem]

15. Aw, they left out the 't'..."Another Poll Finds Bush Stinking"

:)

[lovuian]

16. The people are feeling the PAIN!!!

and get ready people they are going to feel more pain!!!

[katty]

18. FINALLY!! It took long enough!!

[genieroze]

19. I guarantee he doesn't care. eom

[napi21]

20. Oh you're probably right, Shrub doesn't care, but the Pubs who

are looking to be re-elected do! Wonder how long it's gonna take for them to begin distancing themselves from the unpopular Pres???

[Ernesto]

21. Just what stupid needs to do now is tout his social security rip-off plan.

That should win the hearts & minds of repuke congressmen all of which face next year's election.

[Judi Lynn]

28. Brilliant! Why shouldn't he strike while the iron is hot!

Hope Rove's won't read your post. It could give him more wildly successful ideas.

[renate]

30. oh, I don't know...

...I bet he cares a lot. His entire self-image, all his life, has been based on his being an alpha dog--a charming alpha dog whom everybody not only worships, as is his divine right, but just plain likes. (That old "who'd you rather have a beer with" thing.) Frat boy, cheerleader, Bush Sr's son... his entire life has always been all about adoration and popularity that he sees as no more than his due.

He probably honestly has no idea how to cope when people start to dislike or doubt him... it's literally never happened to him before.

Well, too bad, so sad.

[jefferson_dem]

34. Yup. It's only a matter of time before he starts hitting the sauce

again.

[Jim Sagle]

35. Drinking AGAIN? What makes you think he ever stopped?

[Captain Hilts]

42. I worked for his pollster. He cares. He just has others explain them. nt

[Walt Starr]

22. OMFG!!!! They used the "U" word!!!!

UNpopular

[otohara]

23. Remember The MSM Always Saying "Popular President"

ha, ha, ha,

[hyphenate]

31. HA!

A year too fucking late to do shit about it. May the 20% or so of those now dissatisfied with the asshole continue to suffer at the hands of the maniac as their just reward for being too fucking stupid to vote the right way in the first place. It's going to be a very, very long year to the 2006 elections and an even longer one to getting rid of the corruption at the top.

May the pukes lose the House, the Senate and the white house, and may they never get a majority in all the branches of government EVER AGAIN for the rest of eternity, or at least until some alien race bombs the shit of planet earth a thousand years from now (or the rapture comes and helps get rid of all these idiots who vote for these dumbasses in the first place!).

[gristy]

37. Good article

I liked this part:

While Bush often argues that Iraq is a part of the war on terror, his critics charge that Iraq only became a haven for terrorists after the U.S. invasion.

Bush went on a curious riff on this topic yesterday, while answering a question about Iraqi politics in the wake of a draft constitution.

"We had a policy that just said, let the dictator stay there, don't worry about it. And as a result of dictatorship, and as a result of tyranny, resentment, hopelessness began to develop in that part of the world, which became the -- gave the terrorists capacity to recruit. We just cannot tolerate the status quo. We're at war. And so this is a hopeful moment."

[are_we_united_yet]

38. "...results lead inescapably to the conclusion...."

"...that the American people are deeply unhappy with the war in Iraq and blame the president."

Clinton of course.

[PinkyisBlue]

40. Poll Finds Bush Sinking

Uh oh, time for another act of terrorism to shore up support by the people.

[hnsez]

41. Want to Slam Bush in a Poll?

http://www.harrispollonline.com/AgeCheck.asp?lang=1