Bush at 40% Approval in New WSJ Poll --->>>

[Stephanie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060216/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticsbushpoll_060216061106

Majority of Americans rate Bush negatively: Poll
Thu Feb 16, 1:25 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush's approval ratings have declined slightly with a rising majority saying the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new poll.

The Wall Street Journal poll said the president received a 58 percent "negative" rating, up from 56 percent last month. With 40 percent of US voters giving Bush a "positive" rating, down from 43 percent in January.

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The Wall Street Journal survey found that 59 percent said "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track," while only about a third, or 32 percent, agreed that "things in the country are going in the right direction."

The US Congress, which is led by Bush's Republican allies who hold a majority, received a largely negative rating in keeping with previous polls.

Only 25 percent of US adults give Congress a positive rating while 71 percent offer a negative rating, the poll said.

[melody]

1. They are SO propping up the Chimperor's numbers

I can't believe he has above a 25% approval rating. They're cooking his stats just like they're "massaging" the death count from Katrina and the real unemployment numbers. I had someone stop their *cab* the other day and walk up to my house to ask where I'd gotten the "impeach Bush" sign in my yard.

[Stephanie]

5. What do you mean?

did you think the cabdriver wanted a sign too, or did you think it was some kind of surveillance of bush opponents kind of thing?

[melody]

14. It was the cab rider - he wanted a sign, too. n/t

[Twist_U_Up]

2. 40% my ass,

he hasn't seen 40 % since 2001

[jayfish]

3. Three Percent Is A Slight Drop Huh?

If bush would have gone from 43 to 46 percent, they'd say he saved his f'ing residency.

Jay

[Double T]

4. The 'MESSAGE' is always one thing.............

while the deceptive scumbags do the exact opposite.

[katinmn]

6. We truly are becoming the Planet of the Apes!

[madokie]

28. uuuuuuhh trust me, I know good

[lpbk2713]

7. From the "One Picture Says a Thousand Words" Dept .......

Oh yes. He's reforming it alright.

[autorank]

8. It's the 58% NEGATIVE that is fascinating.

Harris is reliable. Bush has laid low the past two weeks and that is always good for a few points abobe his 'natural' 36%. Wait until Fitz acts. One more indictment and the guy is plumeting towards the mid 20's. Will our party have the courage to take on a President with a 70% Negative rating? If they do, will they actually manage to win a vote in congress? Stay tuned;)

[Angry Girl]

12. Fascinating, but because it doesn't seem to bloody matter!

That's what kills my ass! I mean, Cheney assuming dictatorial powers in the Plame affair, the horrors of Gitmo and the administrations policies condoning torture, the tentacular Ambramoff and Delay sagas, gagged scientists, gagged whilstleblowers, lies about WMDs, surveillance and wiretapping up the ying-yang, an unprecedented amount of propaganda aimed at the U.S. people as well as to the world, rigged voting, Katrina coverups, and they're actually going to shove the unPatriot Act up our asses again, and finally Cheney mixing alcohol and meds and SHOOTING people and then lying about it.

This is the only explanation I can find for this behavior:

In the early '60's Stanley Milgram found that

65% of his subjects, ordinary residents of New Haven, were willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks-up to 450 volts-to a pitifully protesting victim, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to, and in spite of the fact that the victim did not do anything to deserve such punishment.

http://www.stanleymilgram.com/milgram.php

That's scary, yeah, and it shows pretty much that as a group, we're a bunch of sheep. But wait, it's much worse than you think: We now have the Echo Boomers, Gen Y, or the Millenials - that is, the children of the Baby Boomers!

Well, this coddled and highly confident lot (often without the benefit of ever having actually worked for or accomplished anything - watch the early rounds of American Idol and you'll get the picture) constitutes almost a third of the U.S. population....

"They have been heavily programmed. The kids who have had soccer Monday, Kung Fu Tuesday, religious classes Wednesday, clarinet lessons Thursday. Whose whole lives have really been based on what some adult tells them to do," says Levine.

"This is a generation that has long aimed to please. They've wanted to please their parents, their friends, their teachers, their college admissions officers."

It's a generation in which rules seem to have replaced rebellion, convention is winning out over individualism, and values are very traditional.

<SNIP>

"Nothing could be more anti-boom than being a good team player, right? Fitting in. Worrying less about leadership than follower-ship," says Howe. "If you go into a public school today, teamwork is stressed everywhere. Team teaching, team grading, collaborative sports, community service, service learning, student juries. I mean, the list goes on and on."

Continued....
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/01/60minutes/printable646890.shtml

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. It Matters To Someone

At least the 58%!
The Professor

[Angry Girl]

18. But if they are this placid and complacent, who cares?

The GOP are still trampling all over the 58% like they were doormats.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Don't Think The Complacency Is As Great As You Think

We just see it a little differently. Complacency usually results in HIGH approval ratings or low disaproval numbers. Here, the population is showing disdain. That has some impact.

Now, as to whether this disapproval is changing the behavior of this gang of thugs, we agree completely.
The Professor

[ProfessorGAC]

16. That's What I Said Yesterday

The drop came mostly from people who were "undecided" before. The guy is losing people who weren't SURE he was doing a rotten job.

Harris, btw, tends to use a fairly extended stratification method, which tends to oversearch the population for people who VOTED FOR THE GUY! So, if we did a less specified stratification, i think the number would be a few percent lower.
The Professor

[WI_DEM]

9. And Rasmussen wants us to believe he is at 49%

[thefloyd]

11. I about fell out of my chair

when i saw Rasmussen @ %49. Yeah. Nixon was at 59% when he left office

[ProfessorGAC]

25. When 70% Of The Sample. . .

. . .are either Republicans or liberterians, of course he's going to get 49%. Rasmussen ADMITS they have a biased stratification method.
The Professor

[info being]

10. I wonder what about the administration they approve of...

Is the the bumbling idiocy or the sheer evil?

[land of the free]

13. I like to look at poll results on pollingreport.com

it is an independent, unbiased reporting of all poll results on specific questions over time. You can see how certain polling groups somehow get results that are slightly less terrible for the President, and others tend to be very negative. By looking at the trends of each poll by each group, it shows you a lot of what's going on... and it's not good news for Bush/Cheney/Rove et al.

Check out the trends on Bush's job performance here:
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

It's interesting to dig in on specific questions such as trustworthiness and administration honesty.

The trends are not improving, and there certainly has been no SOTU bounce. Don't see what's gonna help prop him up for the rest of his presidency, either. I think there will be screams of "lame duck" very soon, and he will be a liability for the GOP faithful.

(ok, some of that thinking is tainted by hope!)

[TahitiNut]

15. Pollkatz. Here ya go ...

[Stephanie]

19. wow, that's a nice steady decline

they must be scared sh*tless

[Vanje]

20. Polls might matter to them....

....if they were dependant on the will of the people to stay in office, like if they were facing a free and fair election, or something.

[Stephanie]

31. well,it's a lot harder to steal an election when you're at 30%

at that point it starts to defy credibility to just about everyone.

[sabra]

21. is the second pic real?

[peekaloo]

23. He's trying out for the Rocky Horror road show cast as

the man with no neck.

[TahitiNut]

26. Riff Raff: "He's a credit to your genius, Master."

:rofl:

Riff Raff: "It's astounding, time is fleeting, madness takes its toll."

[Stephanie]

27. oh yeah it's real

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060216/photos_ts_afp/0602160611069t5nod9j_photo1

[sabra]

30. wow (that's all I can say) :-)

[im10ashus]

24. Jeebus! What is going on in that second picture?

Does he represent the Lollipop Guild?

[katinmn]

32. He's trying to hide his red neck

[mikelewis]

33. A little tirdlet escaped and is rolling around in his panties...

He thinks it feels all squishy.

[npincus]

29. he looks like a f*cking puppet

who knows he's not the story of the day.

[VolcanoJen]

34. Holden Gets A Pony!

:-)