NBC/WSJ Poll: Bush at 39% >>>

[Stephanie]

President facing ‘gray and gloomy’ electorate
NBC/WSJ poll: Small slice of good news for Bush on domestic wiretap issue

By Mark Murray
Political reporter
NBC News
Updated: 7:53 p.m. ET Jan. 30, 2006

Mark Murray
Political reporter

WASHINGTON - Heading into Tuesday's State of the Union address and the beginning of the 2006 political season, President Bush faces an electorate that continues to be dissatisfied with his job performance, increasingly wants U.S. soldiers to come home from Iraq, and believes the Republican Party is associated more with special interests and lobbyists, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

The overall political climate for Bush is “gray and gloomy,” says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart. “In general, people are just not in a happy mood.”

The poll, however, contains a slice of good news for the Bush administration: A small majority approves of the administration’s controversial use of domestic wiretaps without a court order to track calls between terrorist suspects and U.S. residents. But a majority also believes that these wiretaps could be misused.

The survey, which was conducted from Jan. 26-29 of 1,011 adults and which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, shows Bush’s approval rating at 39 percent, which is unchanged from last month’s NBC/Journal poll. (Other recent national surveys have shown his approval rating to be slightly higher, in the low 40s.) In addition, only 25 percent say they want to see Bush take the lead role in setting policy for the country, while 49 percent say they prefer Congress.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11103804/

[wakeme2008]

1. Wait until the Jan. heating bills come in

:rofl:

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. why?

I could have worn shorts and a tank top to school yesterday it was so warm in NY. Heating bills shouldn't be that high this year.

[LeftNYC]

2. A link to all the findings...

the president is getting killed...

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/poll20060131.pdf

[pimpbot]

3. Good news!

"A small majority of americans are too stupid to tie their own shoes" - Study says. :)

[gratuitous]

4. Strike up the Mighty Republican Wurlitzer!

Get the wheezy old tunes cranking, because Dim Son's in trouble again. Watch closely over the next few days, and marvel at how many times you hear about that "small majority" that approves of the government overriding the constitution. Then reflect on what you don't hear about: Support for the war; support for the economic policies (except from the haves and the have-mores); support for the new Medicare drug plan (except from people who don't depend on Medicare to keep living); and on and on.

[npincus]

5. I don't know how to get through 3 more years of this bastard...

[Benhurst]

6. You will and it will toughen you for the eight years to come under

Jeb.

[npincus]

8. oh, Hell no.... as riddled with morons as this country is

I do not see THAT one in my crystal ball....a.k.a. 'Bush-Fatigue".

[Benhurst]

10. ...

But he has started polling for a run.

:rofl:

[npincus]

12. for real?

linky-dink?

[Benhurst]

16. Sorry, but I didn't save the link. I'll see if I can find it. But he

seems to be interested.

[grasswire]

13. Buchanan mentioned it yesterday

He mentioned Jeb as a candidate in 2008.

[quaoar]

I did a thread about this yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2419083

But I didn't have a picture and a gray box for the quoted material. What's the code that does that?

Notice, BTW, that only 25 percent want Bush to take a leading role in setting policy.

[Stephanie]

14. for the box >

you can look it up on the HTML lookup table - the link appears
when you open a new post. the code is as follows:

[div class="excerpt"]

your text

[/div]

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Not good enough. I want to see those numbers drop below 35%

[madokie]

9. I think the person who is to clean and groom this bastard

before they trott him out in public needs to be fired.

[Xenotime]

15. Numbers that low he should be impeached...

I know if I do bad at my job I would get fired.

[Broke In Jersey]

17. We are set if it remains this patheticly low till this November elections!