NBC/WSJ Poll: 2% of African-Americans approve of *'s leadership!

[lady lib]

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/

Transcript below:

RUSSERT: And Matt, the most astounding number in this: 2 percent – just 2 percent - of African-Americans give George Bush a positive rating for his performance as President. The memories of Katrina very much in their minds.

LAUER: Is that what this is all about? I mean, obviously that is just a startling number, 2 percent of African-Americans. Is this all about the aftermath of Katrina?

RUSSERT: Well, the imagery of that along with the economy and fuel prices and Iraq, but that event, Matt, really did have a searing effect. George Bush and the Republican Party has tried very hard to reach out to African-American voters, but this is a very dramatic setback. I cannot find a pollster who can remember any President ever getting just 2 percent approval from African-Americans.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/13/two-percent/

[cassiepriam]

1. That high, huh?

[FrenchieCat]

3. Yep....ain't that a shame!

2% is mighty high in my book!

[cassiepriam]

6. I don't see how it can even be 2%.

[Mr Rabble]

22. Margain of error!

[FrenchieCat]

27. That must be it!

:hi:

[mzmolly]

2. Perhaps this fuels some of the racism among the rapture right?

Thanks for the info.

[ps1074]

4. Condi Rice, Ken Blackwell, Alan Keyes, Colin Powell... did I miss anyone?

:rofl:

[Seedersandleechers]

10. That supreme court justice person, Clarence

[CottonBear]

12. Rev. Jese Peterson and J.C. Watts.

:(

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

13. I think you should take Colin off the list.

but we could ad Page (spelling? He's Sec of Education-or was)

[cassiepriam]

34. ya Colin is iffy. Don't think there is any love lost there.

[Ian David]

21. I don't think Bush is on Powell's Xmas Card list this year

Maybe Clarence Thomas still loves him.

[tech3149]

26. Rod Paige? n/t

[Sandpiper]

5. Isn't 2% within the margin of error?

In which case, it could actually be less than that.

[bluestateguy]

7. Yes, so it could be as low as -1%, or as high as 5%.

n/t

[lady lib]

8. "Ebola has a higher approval rating than 2%. "

(That's comment #16 at the bottom of the page.)

LOL!! :rofl:

[damntexdem]

9. This is terrible! Disgusting!

What's wrong with that two percent?

[buff2]

11. 2% is way too high

This idiot refuses to meet with the NAACP and wouldn't be caught dead in a room full of solid blacks. What the hell is WRONG with these blacks that support him? God,they are being a traitor to their own race.

[win_in_06]

14. One of those 2% works in my office!

I feel special to know one of such a minuscule group.

[lcordero2]

15. I didn't know that preachers made up 2% of the

African-American population.

[xultar]

16. There's always the effed up 2% in any group. Effin 2% Negroes.

always messin up $hit and being beholden to the massa.

[tamtam]

33. Exactly

Bow down to massa Bush because he's a good Christian man. I don't even bother with them anymore. They are the minority of the minority at 2% and still have the nerve to be judgmental and self righteous.

[shantipriya]

17. Bush approval

It should be 2% of the whole population,not just African-Americans.The guy has no intelligence,curiosity and knowledge of world or US history to be a low level State Dept. bureaucrat,let alone the leader of the Free World.I don't understand how can seemingly intelligent people (Russert) think that he is a leader.
The country will pay a terrible price in human and economic resources for electing mediocre people to run the country.

[wiley]

20. It should be less than 2% of the total population

But the Republicans probably have at least that percent of spineless, unethical, selfish cronies in jobs they want to keep.

[opihimoimoi]

18. Next years elections are gonna be SPECTACULAR...GOP will be

in SHOCK....thanks to BushCo.

[flordehinojos]

19. tim russert is

an asshole, just like bush.

matt lauer, i don't give two pennies worth for him.

and 2% of african americans approving of bush ...that is way too much of a percent of blacks approving of bush .

[quiet.american]

23. Yes, and a relative of mine is one of them

She may at times barely admit that Bush is an idiot (that's as far as she'll go), but she voted for him and, as she's testily informed me, "all the Bushes before G.W. were excellent, excellent people - very accomplished."

:yoiks: :crazy:

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

24. George Bush doesn't care about black people.

It seems they don't care much for him, either...

[rodeodance]

25. horrible-but it took deaths for them to realize this.

[FrenchieCat]

28. So now the question is.....

What will it take for the 39% of those White folks to get it? Death doesn't seem to work for them.....

[lady lib]

30. Hopefully, as the $$$ drains from their wallets at the gas pump,

the kool-aid will drain from their marinated bodies. It's just so frustrating for me that financial loss is the only way that some people find enlightenment.

[savemefromdumbya]

29. just 2%

:rofl:

[Orion The Hunter]

31. Well I guess that is why the RNC is trying to make inroads with blacks...

..since they have nowhere to go but up

[Orion The Hunter]

32. Margin of Error

To be fair, the margin of error on the poll is 3.4%. So Bush’s actual approval among African Americans could be anywhere from -1.4% to 5.4%.

Yeah I am thinking its closer to that -1.4% number....

[lady lib]

35. Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post has MORE INFO:

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, October 13, 2005; 3:09 PM

-snip-

A few months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found Bush's approval rating among blacks at 51 percent. As recently as six months ago, it was at 19 percent.

But Bush's bungled response to Hurricane Katrina -- seen by many blacks as evidence that he didn't care about them (see my September 13 column ) -- may have brought support for the president in the African American community down to nearly negligible levels.

-snip-

"African Americans were not supporters, but I don't think that they outright detested him -- until now," Hart said. "The actions in and around Katrina persuaded African Americans that this was a president who was totally insensitive to their concerns and their needs."

Hart said he has never seen such a dramatic drop in presidential approval ratings, within any subgroup.

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