AP/Ipsos Poll: 59% Say Country on Wrong Track, 56% Dissaprove of Job

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

Results were weighted to represent the population by demographic factors such as age, sex, region, race and income.

No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than 3 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all Americans were polled.
There are other sources of potential error in polls, including the wording and order of questions. Results may not total 100 percent because of rounding. An asterisk indicates less than 1 percent.

(June results are in parentheses)

1. Generally speaking, would you say things in this country are heading in the right direction, or are they off on the wrong track?

_Right direction, 36 percent (35)
_Wrong track, 59 percent (59)
_Not sure, 5 percent (6)

2. Overall, do you approve, disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?

_Approve, 42 percent (43)
_Disapprove, 56 percent (55)
_Mixed feelings, 1 percent (1)
_Not sure, 2 percent (1)

3. And when it comes to handling the economy, do you approve or disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling that issue?

_Approve, 42 percent (43)
_Disapprove, 56 percent (54)
_Mixed feelings, 2 percent (2)
_Not sure, percent (2)

4. And when it comes to domestic issues like health care, education and the environment, do you approve or disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling that issue?

_Approve, 42 percent (40)
_Disapprove, 56 percent (57)
_Mixed feelings, 1 percent (2)
_Not sure, 1 percent (1)

More: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050715/ap_on_re_us/ap_poll_method_1

[Moochy]

1. Book of Job?

Poor Job, first God turns on him, now the american people!!

And yet, he's still faitful!

[flowomo]

2. here's a roundup of all the Bush approval polls....

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm


good link to keep on hand

[SmileyBoy]

3. DAAAAAYYYYYY-UUUUMMMMM.....

56 percent. Jesus... Let's roll with this, guys.

[trogdor]

4. still over 40%?

When do we see the first 39% approval rating? Folks have described this as "free fall", but it seems we've either hit bottom, and the remaining 42% are die-hard Kool-Aid drinkers, or they're cooking the poll results.

[Lexingtonian]

7. sort of

Bush still has all his Republicans together, a 38% demographic, even though a whole bunch of them are getting pretty white knuckled at the ride but afraid to get off it. It's a 'faith' (i.e. occultism) thing.

The additional few percent Independents are those who still believe that the terrorism stuff is working out or will work out or something along those lines.

The 'faith' only gets given up when all the major facts fail it and all its major tenets turn out to be unable to have magical effect. Right now they're down to blaming 'Islam' ('jihadism') for their overall failures and still clinging to the efficacy of Willpower as able to save the situation. They just don't know how, or why, or who anymore- the people and things they assert all seem to fail so rapidly. They're amazingly afraid now, all that arrogance and selfconfidence and swagger of the past four years has gone out of them as everything they've done goes to crap. But that's how a cult declines and finally disintegrates- every element of what it is and does and claims to believe comes apart.

[damntexdem]

9. But he's in for a second term, and has majorities in Congress.

He doesn't have to care unless his numbers scare Rethugs up for reelection -- and too many of them have been sipping at the Kool-Aid. He can still do damage.

[AX10]

5. Dismal for a 5th year two termer.

Also, why the Hell is his number still above 40%? :wtf:

[coloradodem2005]

6. Why are any of these numbers still above 40%?

[Rambis]

8. I don't get it either

Does this mean that 40% of "Mericans" are fundie wacko's? I didn't buy it in 2000 or 2004. I think it was a myth a shadow, this huge fundie block of voters that carried the election for *. This is more cooking of stats to perpetuate the lie.