Bush's Approval Falls Into The 20's

May 11, 2006, 9:12 pm

Bush Dips Into the 20s

President Bush’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January. Approval ratings for Congress overall also sank, and now stand at 18%.

Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say “things in the country are going in the right direction,” while 69% say “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” This has been the trend since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction. Iraq remains a key concern for the general public, as 28% of Americans said they consider Iraq to be one of the top two most important issues the government should address, up from 23% in April. The immigration debate also prompted 16% of Americans to consider it a top issue, down from 19% last month, but still sharply higher from 4% in March.

The Harris poll comes two days after a downbeat assessement of Bush in a New York Times/CBS News poll. The Times, in analyzing the results, said “Americans have a bleaker view of the country’s direction than at any time in more than two decades.”

See the results of multiple polls.

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The 6th year is historically the worst for Presidents... but hell, this is pretty cool, no?

 

Doesn't make a whiff of difference unless and until the entire cabal is being dragged out in chains to face trial for high treason and crimes against humanity.

Until then, just more newspaper filler space, or as Shakespeare once wrote "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".

 

Holy ****, we agree on something?

 

Not remotely from all I've seen junior.

 

Watch Bush spiral down the toilet.

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He passed by the Tidy-Bowl man a long time ago.

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actualy its 29 % of those who who took the time to respond the polls, so it would be more acurate to say that 29% of bored shutins feel that way. I would be realy surprised if it was that high amoung people out in the world

 

People out in the world are probably even more affected by the problems of his policies. I'd expect it to be even lower too.

One of the dumbest remarks I ever heard Bush say was to a single mom who was working 3 jobs to stay afloat. Bush said, "I'm proud of you. That's uniquely American." She was expecting to get a little empathy from him and instead got a shallow remark like that.

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