FOX News Poll: Democrats Favored On Most Issues; Bush Approval Down

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203346,00.html

07/13/06 FOX News Poll: Democrats Favored On Most Issues; Bush Approval Down

NEW YORK — Less than four months before Election Day, the latest FOX News Poll finds that voters strongly favor the Democrats on key issues such as the economy and gas prices, and give the minority party a double-digit lead for control of Congress this fall. For most of President Bush’s second term in office, more Americans have said they disapprove than approve of his job performance and that is again the case in this new poll.

The president’s approval rating dropped to 36 percent, down from 41 percent approval two weeks ago and 40 percent in mid-June. Bush lost ground this week among some key constituent groups, such as Republicans, whites and men. Overall, 53 percent of Americans say they disapprove.

"It is important to remember that the president got his bounce after the killing of al-Zarqawi in Iraq," comments Opinion Dynamics Chairman John Gorman. "While administration officials were careful not to overplay the significance of this, it naturally created hope that things would get better. Several weeks of bloody footage from Iraq have pretty much dashed those hopes."

Despite the negative views on the job he’s doing, Americans believe President Bush has had a tough job assignment. A 61 percent majority — including 48 percent of Democrats, 62 percent of independents and 75 percent of Republicans — thinks Bush has had to face a larger number of difficult situations than most presidents deal with during their terms in office.

[Domitan]

1. Gallup just went up and Fox went down

Got to love those topsy-turvy polls!

[michaelvail]

33. Two sides of the same coin: Which way will the wind blow?

The Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin. The wind blows to and fro but the game is the same. Does anyone truly believe that after a Democratic President is put in office we won’t be suffering from the same issues, such as synthetic terrorism, dependence on foreign oil, plummeting dollar, and immigration issues? President Bush created Homeland Security to protect us from terrorists and yet our southern border is wide open for all to enter. Logically, wouldn’t that be the one of the first things to tackle? The King cannot protect a castle with a moat with no water in it. Instead our President has been painting with too broad a brush. Polls do not matter, rhetoric does not matter. What really matters is that America returns to it’s former self. Whether it is a conservative or liberal who does it is immaterial.
http://www.thought-criminal.org/2006/07/13/two-sides-of-the-same-coin-which-way-will-the-wind-blow/

[samsingh]

36. bush is an idiot who caused the problems

the dems stand a better chance of fixing bush's mistakes and will be better than bush the moron at keeping us from getting deeper into the hole.

- do you like rewarding morons?

[Halliburton]

2. HE'S DOWN? THE MEDIA WAS JUST TELLING ME HOW MUCH OF A ROLL HE WAS ON!

with Zarqawi's death and his fly-in to Baghdad. I was told that a corner was turned.

:shrug:

[FrenchieCat]

3. That's why we are dizzy....cause everything keeps turning......

round, and round and round we go!

[WCGreen]

4. but that corner just happen to lead into a blind alley....

[Torgo Johnson]

11. They've turned so many corners...

they are now going around in circles.

[truthisfreedom]

15. compass needles spinning crazily...

rove spinning his own spin...

[rodeodance]

20. and doors keep hitting em in the face!! Lessons learned?---nope!

[AndyA]

5. This from Faux News?

Despite the negative views on the job he’s doing, Americans believe President Bush has had a tough job assignment. A 61 percent majority — including 48 percent of Democrats, 62 percent of independents and 75 percent of Republicans — thinks Bush has had to face a larger number of difficult situations than most presidents deal with during their terms in office.

Are they beginning to make excuses for the beating the GOP is about to take, beginning in November? Faux News has been this administration's most loyal supporter, I can't imagine they don't have a reason for stating this. And isn't that last question a revealing one?

[Demit]

10. Moral of the story: don't send a frat boy to do a man's job.

Then you won't have to hear endlessly of how it's "hard work". Shit.

[arcane1]

28. hard work FIXING HIS OWN FUCK-UPS!!!!!

:grr:

[FuzzyDicePHL]

18. self-delete

self-delete

[smoogatz]

23. Mostly of his own doing.

I could never figure out why so many Americans gave Bush the benefit of the doubt after 9/11; media complicity, I suppose.

[ixion]

6. these 'difficult situations' have been of his own making

so I don't really think he deserves any sympathy on that point.

[UpInArms]

7. "Bush has had to face a larger number of difficult situations"

all of his own making - he is a freakin' dolt and is mean, vicious, unfit for office and a war criminal.

He and his cabal should be serving time in the Hague very soon.

[samsingh]

37. maybe because he 's the worst president ever

[jobycom]

8. "a larger number of difficult situations than most presidents"

Like, a lower IQ, a stupid cabinet, a meglomaniac VP...

Bush caused his every one of the more difficult situations he has had to deal with, from ignoring warnings about 9-11 to occupying two nations to boost his oil buddies' bank balances to trying a Republican version of social engineering by allowing hundreds of people in New Orleans to die.

Every president in recent times has faced natural disasters, terrorist threats, and a volatile Middle East. Bush just failed worse than ANYone else. I dislike Reagan, and he was certainly no better a person, but he did do a slightly better job. Slightly. But still better.

[Davis_X_Machina]

9. Well, it doesn't matter...

...because as a colleague of mine keeps telling me, 'A 36% approval rating is irrelevant if that 36% owns most of the guns.'

I don't feel so bad having missed Weimar Germany any more -- I'm getting most of the flavor right here seventy years later.

[AndyTiedye]

22. You Noticed That Too

:scared:

[Jane Austin]

30. Who says they have most of the guns?

Lots of us liberals own guns. Grew up huntin' and fishin'.

Also gotta protect ourselves from wild boars (really!), snakes and other unwelcome critters out here in the country.

[benEzra]

43. Only half of gun owners are repubs...

the other half are mostly Dems and indies, like me. REPUBLICAN Sarah Brady would like you to think that banning guns is a Democratic ideal, but it's not...

[bluestateguy]

12. Fox does decent polls. It's how they spin them that is the problem.

When a good Bush poll comes out, Fox plays it up. When Bush's numbers go up from 35 to 40, Fox spins it as "Bush on the rebound", or they make snarky comparisons to Bill Clinton's approval rating in 1993-94 or Jimmy Carter. When bad Bush polls come out, Fox tends to bury the news. But Fox's actual polling is in line with what other reputable polls say.

[Bush_MUST_Go]

14. bush down? Must be time for another (months old) terra alert.

[CraigHinTenn]

24. No, they will wait for late October for that

[Straight Shooter]

27. You got that right. They are as transparent as glass.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[stop the bleeding]

13. machines are rigged we will still lose even if it was 100 to 1

just trying to face reality

[agio]

44. what a silly attitude

Like that's really going to get voters to the polls: "Why bother?"

[gademocrat7]

16. I want to see his numbers drop even more.

he is a blight on our country. President Clinton had the World Trade Center and the embassy in Kenya bombings to deal with, as well as devastating hurricanes. He served this nation well.shrub has done nothing but led us into war, debt and despair.

[UrbScotty]

17. Hahaha. (nt)

[sandnsea]

19. 9/11 & Katrina - that's it

Clinton dealt with 2 major bombings and the flooding of the entire Mississippi Valley, Kosovo, and tried to deal with Bin Laden but the Republicans said it was just "wag the dog" - all while under an admitted partisan pay back witch hunt over Nixon's impeachment.

Bush hasn't had to deal with anything, in comparison.

[wryter2000]

21. Self-inflicted damage

Bush has had to face a larger number of difficult situations than most presidents deal with during their terms in office.

Most or all of which he caused himself.

[lpbk2713]

25. Remember this one? It hasn't been that long ago.

[Beetwasher]

26. ROFL! This Line Is The BESTEST!!! "While administration officials were car

Relating to the death Zarqawi: "While administration officials were careful not to overplay the significance of this..."

Heh. On what fucking planet were they careful not to overplay it? What fucking universe are they reporting from? :eyes:

[aaronbees]

40. Exactly!!

They trotted out freakin' framed pictures of Zarqawi after he died! Total trumped-up, overplayed ploy is there ever was one!!

[hadrons]

29. "the president got his bounce after the killing of al-Zarqawi in Iraq"

comments Opinion Dynamics Chairman John Gorman --- you've got to be kidding

[tblue37]

31. Aaaarrrggghhhh!!!!!!!

Despite the negative views on the job he’s doing, Americans believe President Bush has had a tough job assignment. A 61 percent majority — including 48 percent of Democrats, 62 percent of independents and 75 percent of Republicans — thinks Bush has had to face a larger number of difficult situations than most presidents deal with during their terms in office.

Bush created those difficult situations, and did so while ignoring warnings and advice--from the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB to Shinsheki's estiamte about how many troops it would take to win the ar and successfully occupy Iraq, to the State Dept experts' warnings about what it would take to win the peace.

Bush is like the guy who murders his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan!

[agio]

46. well

if that's the only good news they can find in these numbers, I'll take it.

[mitchum]

32. Fox is rolling this out to mobilize the gop sheep

[Robbien]

38. That is what I am thinking, why else would they use that headline?

Normally they downplay any bad news, but the lead in the headline is that the Democrats are favored.

This is a political ploy.

[dysfunctional press]

39. yep- it's a SCARE tactic, to get their audience to the polls.

they need it to appear to be close enough to steal.

[heliarc]

42. What? They didn't get the memo...???

from Peter King that said "It's over with who counts the votes... and we count the votes"

Maybe the polls have gotten so bad that not even the Diebold machines algorithms can correct for the projected turnout.

Diebold, because 2+2=5

[Acadia Blue]

34. Duh. oh gee. Well there is still that 29% who love him even if they

know he is crazy and dangerous and will destroy America

[samsingh]

35. but the difficult situations are of bush's making

[LynnTheDem]

41. Gee, even Faux can't fake it any more.

bush; worst president ever.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

45. So much for that junkie's quick fix.

It didn't even give him a good buzz before it was gone. Poor little tramp. It's just a good thing the polls don't matter to him! :rofl: