Bush hits new low in yet another poll (AP-Ipsos)

[WI_DEM]

Another poll, another low--Bush has only a 33% approval rating in the AP-Ipsos poll--down from 36% in their previous poll last month. Not only that but 45% of self-described conservatives now disapprove of the chimp. Nearly half of all people "strongly disapprove" of Bush.

The approval rating for Congress is even worse around 25% approval with a Democratic congress favored by 51-34 percent.

73% of the American people say we are headed on the "Wrong Track".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060505/ap_on_el_ge/republicans_ap_poll

[Virginia Dare]

1. I guess the "shake-up" at the White House didn't work...n/t

[NewJeffCT]

2. How can this be?

Just a few weeks ago, Kenny Mehlman assured us that Bush had bottomed out? You mean, a Republican was wrong?

[benburch]

3. The whole grim truth.

Spin THAT, Freeptards and CUmbuckets!

[neoblues]

4. Given where he was around July 2001, can you imagine...

how far down his numbers would be had he not had the big positive bump from 9/11, his numbers would have been in the negative range by now. (Oop, that's not necessarily so--since without 9/11 enabling him to start the IRAQ invasion/occupation, a considerable part of the reasons for his decreasing poll numbers would be missing. No doubt he'd still have managed to do some things to have brought them down...)(Oop, that too isn't the whole story--since without 9/11, not only would he not have been able to engage in wars of choice, he wouldn't have been reelected! So the numbers would have stopped by mid-January, 2005.)(Sure would have been good if we could have avoided 9/11, but then again, there's no way without foreknowledge that we could have prevented the Bush Cartel from pulling 9/11 off.). (Sure hope the American people have learned from experience by now, not to overreact to a terrorist attack--even one of the magnitude of 9/11, so that even if a current or future President allows another one to happen, even if they again help to make it happen and make it more spectacular/catastropic, we won't all promptly roll over and give him dictatorial powers (as well as avoid rushing to judgement to make war based on whatever our President claims to be true)(Bush has surely made it more difficult for future Presidents--if we have any--to convince us we need to go to war when the culprits aren't obvious without "secret intelligence")).

[benburch]

8. There is no way he would have been re-elected without his war.

The war got him close enough to be able to steal the election.

[neoblues]

9. We agree.

Of course he didn't actually win either of his elections if the truth were known. Wrongly appointed thanks to flawed Florida recount and premature SCOTUS intervention for first term followed by a miscount in Ohio by a variety of types of electoral fraud. In both cases, he never would've come close but for both the effectiveness of Republican conspiracies to disenfranchise tens of thousands (or more) of Democratic voters and direct electronic manipulation of the vote tallies (from several percent up to as much as almost 10%).

Therefore, he's not only the worst President in the two centuries of our country's history, but he's the worst unelected President we've ever had. One thing is certain, and that is that until we have an electoral process that can be fully verified after the fact, we cannot claim to be a real Democracy. We're the United States of Trick Elections.

While I also agree he wouldn't have stood a chance for reelection--not even being able to get within 30 points in many of the states he mysteriously won, even his 'trick' voting system wouldn't have helped--without being so unbelievable (a 35 or 40 point reversal of the exit polls and final pre-election polls would just be too hard to explain away) that surely we would all have demanded the election results be thrown out pending a low-tech "re-do". Surely... Still, there's no guarantee at all that we could have ever prevented them from enacting their "new Pearl Harbor". So, while 9/11 was a profoundly terrible event it was actually a catastrophe on many levels, including that of our nation's very future (thanks to it's political effects on the public). Depressing that such a terrible wound to our country would empower such a miserable, pathetic failure of a President as to make him a real force for change (regressive, harmful, ruinous change).

[Supersedeas]

5. but but but what about the FOX faux poll - Hume swears he's up

[WI_DEM]

6. I'm sure they are ecstatic about that "remarkable comeback"

as if even 38% is something to gloat about.

[wordpix]

7. I suspect Shit Fume is on * payroll---he'll say anything to help puppetmas

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