(Pollster) Bush's image a problem for GOP ".....the point of no return"

[truthpusher]

"Voters "are not ready to throw the bums out, but the tinder is on the forest floor, and there could be a forest fire," Riehle said."

article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2006-05-04-raasch_x.htm?csp=34

Bush's image a problem for GOP at home, all Americans abroad
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Posted 5/4/2006 5:57 PM ET
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WASHINGTON —

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GOP pollster Lance Tarrance, who has been among his party's top public opinion experts for three decades, provided a bleak picture of Bush's standing with the public in a May 2 briefing sponsored by the Cook Political Report.

Buried in job approval ratings that have fallen into the low-to mid-30s are indicators of a more corrosive effect on a presidency. Tarrance said the number of Americans who strongly disapprove of Bush has accelerated so fast — and their feelings appear to be so deep — that Bush may now be in the worst shape of any wartime president.

In an April 27-30 poll by Tarrance and Thomas Riehle, half of respondents said they intensely dislike Bush and his policies. Tarrance called that result "fairly frightening" for a president trying to push immigration reform, sustain an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, and help his party hang on to narrow control of the House and Senate in November elections.The high-intensity dislike of Bush is "almost the point of no return for any president, and that's where Bush is right now," Riehle said. Their polling also showed Democrats with a historically high advantage over Republicans when respondents were asked which party they wanted to control Congress after November.

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Kohut and Stokes say their surveys of 93,000 respondents around the globe since 9/11 have shown a "startling" and "precipitous" rise in anti-Americanism in all corners of the world. Much of the animus, they said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, stems from the war in Iraq, the United States' policies toward Israel and the Palestinians, and the entertainment industry's export of violent and degrading images of American culture.

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Voters "are not ready to throw the bums out, but the tinder is on the forest floor, and there could be a forest fire," Riehle said.

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link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2006-05-04-raasch_x.htm?csp=34

[DBoon]

1. better Bush at "the point of no return"

than the rest of the world

[Ezlivin]

2. The sheeple will likely be easily scared back into supporting GW

As soon as we have our next scheduled terrorist attack or we begin the War on Iran.

[pnwmom]

4. Or maybe people will finally feel betrayed, like they did in New Orleans

[Ezlivin]

7. Perhaps

I'm doubtful anyone has the attention span to notice.

Wait a second, there's another blonde missing.

Television has created a generation of people incapable of focusing on one thing for more than a moment.

[AX10]

3. The highest "approval" rating Bush can get now is 40%.

60% percent will always oppose him. Democrats are most certainly not going to support him, and the moderate/independents have given up on Bush. Bush will most likely be stuck in the 30's until his term ends.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Why is he so bad? Because the Republican Congress allows him to be.

No oversight, no accountability is a hallmark of this Congress...no wonder he thinks he is yje Imperial Decider. That could change in a hurry if enough Republican Congresspeople would move accross the aisle and give the Democrats the power to stop this insanity. If not, every one of them should pay the political price in November.

[katinmn]

6. His image isn't the problem

It's the corruption, the torture, the war-mongering and the corporate takeover of the governnment, stupid.

I see too many headlines and news stories that suggest Junior has a PR problem, or a communication problem. Sheesh. No wonder corp reporters get zero respect.