Bush at 26% approval!

[BlueStater]

How Low Can He Go?

President Bush registers the lowest approval rating of his presidency—making him the least popular president since Nixon—in the new NEWSWEEK Poll.

By Marcus Mabry
Newsweek
Updated: 8:49 a.m. PT June 21, 2007

June 21, 2007 - In 19 months, George W. Bush will leave the White House for the last time. The latest NEWSWEEK Poll suggests that he faces a steep climb if he hopes to coax the country back to his side before he goes. In the new poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday nights, President Bush’s approval rating has reached a record low. Only 26 percent of Americans, just over one in four, approve of the job the 43rd president is doing; while, a record 65 percent disapprove, including nearly a third of Republicans.

The new numbers—a 2 point drop from the last NEWSWEEK Poll at the beginning of May—are statistically unchanged, given the poll’s 4 point margin of error. But the 26 percent rating puts Bush lower than Jimmy Carter, who sunk to his nadir of 28 percent in a Gallup poll in June 1979. In fact, the only president in the last 35 years to score lower than Bush is Richard Nixon. Nixon’s approval rating tumbled to 23 percent in January 1974, seven months before his resignation over the botched Watergate break-in.

The war in Iraq continues to drag Bush down. A record 73 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Bush has done handling Iraq. Despite “the surge” in U.S. forces into Baghdad and Iraq’s western Anbar province, a record-low 23 percent of Americans approve of the president’s actions in Iraq, down 5 points since the end of March.

But the White House cannot pin his rating on the war alone. Bush scores record or near record lows on every major issue: from the economy (34 percent approve, 60 percent disapprove) to health care (28 percent approve, 61 percent disapprove) to immigration (23 percent approve, 63 percent disapprove). And—in the worst news, perhaps, for the crowded field of Republicans hoping to succeed Bush in 2008—50 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of terrorism and homeland security. Only 43 percent approve, on an issue that has been the GOP’s trump card in national elections since 9/11.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19352087/site/newsweek/

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But...but...but he's cleary such a popular guy that impeachment would hurt us! :eyes:

[dkofos]

1. Not that he cares. He is still in power!!

[Demeter]

2. It's All Part of the Plan

I'm sure.

[demnan]

3. Like your comment at the bottom

You should wrap that whole thing up in an email and send to the Madam Speaker.

[spanone]

4. Way Too High.

[mediaman007]

5. He* never wanted to be President for all of America anyway!

Cheney*/Rove's idea was 50% plus one. Now that he* won in 2004, none of this matters. He's got power and he's completing the greatest theft of all time: the American treasury.

[npincus]

6. You made my day!

:toast: :rofl:

He's finally succeeded at something-- Failure! His Poppy bottomed out at 28% (Gallup)... I've beeen waiting for him to break that bottom!

ROFLMAO!

[jgraz]

7. I actually wonder if * likes having low approval

If he's the kind of bully I think he is, it must give him some pleasure to think of the number of unhappy people that he has power over. I imagine him going to bed every night dreaming about declaring the entire SF Bay Area an enemy combatant.

[otohara]

12. His "Fuck All of You" Attitude

makes me think you are correct!

[Lisa]

30. next on his "to do" list -- sell the blue states to Canada, starting with Vermont! (n/t)

[jgraz]

34. Sell them to Canada? No way!!

He's going to contract them out to Halliburton and KBR.

[AndyA]

8. How low can Bush go?

And why is Congress standing on a sinking ship instead of on the dock watching it sink?

[ben_meyers]

9. Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low

Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/gallup/2007/06/what_do_hmos_an.html

2008 is shaping up to be a "throw all the bastards out" year. Who benefits? Repubs? Democrats?

No incumbent Pres or VP so who is the Washington outsider?

Try looking at it from outside your own viewpoint.

[BlueStater]

10. Most Americans despise Bush but the Democrats aren't standing up to him

That's why they're so low.

[ben_meyers]

14. Okay, we know why,

But we know that Bush can't recover and he isn't running anyway. The question is who benefits from a "throw all the bums out" attitude?

[bunkerbuster1]

19. Congress can turn around their ratings quite easily

Just stand up to Bush. The nation wants it. The country's approval is Congress' to lose.

Investigations are fine, but actually impeaching Abu Gonzo would be a great start. Sooner the better.

[Yukari Yakumo]

23. Who benefits from a "throw all the bums out" attitude?

The Repubs in the '08 election.

[pampango]

22. So true.

The less Congress does to stand up to Bush, the lower their polling sinks which probably convinces some of them that they cannot take him on. It seems to be a self-reinforcing cycle sometimes.

[BlueStater]

26. The American public is seeing the Democrats as ineffective wimps

You have people like Leahy or whoever constantly threatening these slimeballs but they just shrug it off and that's the last we ever hear of it for some reason. Do something other than talk, damn it!

[Ishoutandscream2]

11. I really don't think he gives a damn

He's made money for his cronies. He has succeeded in pushing the neocon agenda. He has gotten religion involved with govt. (faith based initiatives). And best yet, no one is trying to stop him. Mission accomplished.

[Nikki Stone1]

13. Clearly popularity has nothing to do with retaining power

The power is NOT with the people

[krispos42]

15. Limbo lower now!

[npincus]

16. LOL- great graphic!

[krispos42]

17. Like KO says.... "Use the Google!"

[bunkerbuster1]

18. Pity the Freepers

They just lost another talking point--when bringing up the previous low, they could always say "yeah, just like the peanut-farmin' bastard CARTER!!!1!!!1!"

Well, my Freeper bretheren--welcome to lower than Carter, and heading toward Nixon in '74. That's where the President is at the moment. And even if Bush makes a comeback, you can't take this back.

He. Sank. Lower. Than. Carter.

[Supersedeas]

33. They still have Condi to be proud of...

[defendandprotect]

20. Bush is smiling thru the drugs and booze, nonetheless -- !!!

Like Nixon --
And probably hiding and destroying information as Nixon was doing.
What we already know about warrants impeachment --
What don't we still know about???

[ThomWV]

21. What's The All Time Low?

Carter after the failed hostage breakout failed attempt?

[BlueStater]

25. The lowest Carter ever got to was 28%

So numbnuts now has the lowest approval in over 30 years.

[Lisa]

32. and I'm not expecting * to get a Nobel Prize and worldwide respect ...

... during HIS post-presidency!

Carter's written a bunch of books since leaving office. Bush might do one -- "If I Wanted to Destroy America, This Is How I'd Have Done It".

[lpbk2713]

24. The term *26% Approval* seems to sugar coat the issue.

A far greater number are convinced Shit-for-Brains is the worst thing that ever happened to this country.

[Nikki Stone1]

27. Yes. It means 3/4 of the country can't stand this jerk

...

[ThomWV]

29. And still he can't be IMPEACHED for his CRIMES

[OnionPatch]

28. Go, go, go, go!!!

Come on, Bush, I know you can beat Nixon! Only two more points!

I predict he will be below Nixon's number before he's out of office.

[Philosoraptor]

31. That figure is HIGHLY inflated, 99% of Americans think he sux big time.

[Poiuyt]

35. But, but, but...I want to have a beer with him!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

36. He came into power in 2000 without overall public approval

and it looks like he'll go out that way.

How pathetic is that?

[bdamomma]

37. * just does not care about the polls or us, he wants them and us

to go "poof". what a sick SOB. he is still there, and he keeps on smirking away.

[frogcycle]

38. hard to believe that one in four still approve

I mean, even a far-right bible thumping war monger has to see that he would fuck up a wet dream

[Art_from_Ark]

39. He used to be in a dead heat with the Japanese prime minister

Just last week, they were both at 29%. Now bu$h has lowered the bar. How low can they go?