Poll Finds Most Americans Displeased With Congress

[CatWoman]

With the midterm elections less than seven weeks away, Americans have an overwhelmingly negative view of the Republican-controlled Congress, with substantial majorities saying that they disapprove of the job it is doing and that its members do not deserve reelection, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The disregard for Congress is the most intense it has been since 1994, when Republicans captured 52 seats to end four decades of Democratic control of the House and retook the Senate as well. It underlines the challenge the Republican Party faces in trying to hold onto power in the face of a surge in anti-incumbent sentiment.

By overwhelming margins, respondents said that members of Congress were too tied to special interests and that they did not understand the needs and problems of average Americans. Two-thirds said Congress had accomplished less than it typically does in a two-year session; most said they said they could not name a single major piece of legislation that cleared this Congress. Just 25 percent said they approved of the way Congress was doing its job.

The Times/CBS News poll also found that President Bush did not improve his own or his party’s standing through the intense campaign of speeches he made and events he attended surrounding the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The speeches were at the heart of a Republican strategy to thrust national security to the forefront in the fall elections.

Mr. Bush’s job approval rating was 37 percent, virtually unchanged from the last Times/CBS News poll, which was conducted in August. On the issue that has been a bulwark for Mr. Bush, 54 percent said they approve of the way he is managing the effort to combat terrorists, again unchanged from last month, though up from earlier this spring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/us/politics/21pollcnd.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

[whistle]

1. Displeased??? Fire their asses outta there!

[CatWoman]

2. on another note

I'd like for DUers to please take heed with this poll, and stop agonizing and wringing their hands over "Bush's uptick in the polls".

[Roy]

25. Everyone knows there is no uptick...

Those slanted polls were just to give Tweety and his ilk cover to try and stop Dems from hanging Bush around the neck of this rubber stamp congress.
This idiot has done nothing to change the mind of anyone in this country, not even his kool-aid swilling base.
:hi:

[ruggerson]

3. Let's hope this gets as much play as Gallup's numbers did yesterday

n/t

[Ignacio Upton]

4. Do you really think that Tweety will gloat about numbers

that indicate anything other than a horse-race or a public preference for the GOP?

[Judi Lynn]

5. Look how far down in the story the Bush numbers are mentioned!

The New York Times didn't even refer to the Bush part in the headline! They are firmly under control by the stolen White House, it would seem.

Hiding the news makes it so much easier for the right-wing hate show hosts to misinform their mentally impaired listeners.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. k

[Ignacio Upton]

7. Bush at 37% in new CBS/New York Times poll

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/20/opinion/polls/main2026039.shtml

...And according to them, he didn't even get a 9/11 bounce. Fuck you Gallup!

BUSH'S JOB APPROVAL

Approve
37%
Disapprove
56%

Mr. Bush's numbers for his handling of the campaign against terrorism is unchanged — even in the wake of the five-year anniversary commemorations of the Sept. 11 attacks — though the issue remains his strongest, with 54 percent approval.

A separate CBS News/New York Times poll finds Congress gets even lower ratings than the president. Just 25 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, while 61 percent disapprove.

[CatWoman]

8. this is a dupe

I posted this story first.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. I went and kicked yours.

Except replying to you here kicked this one above it... d'oh!


:evilgrin:

[leftofthedial]

9. in all seriousness

how can more than one out of three Americans, nearly two out of every five, find this cretinous degenerate's performance to be worthy of approval?


Seriously. Go to a ballgame and look to the person to your right and the person to your left. One of them is a fucking NAZI!

We need to clean house in this country.

[speedoo]

10. Horrifying ain't it? nt

[Ignacio Upton]

12. Because at least a third of this country is hopelessly retarded

The sad thing is that conservatives have a larger base than we do. To use the old cliche, Bush would have to be caught with a dead girl or an alive boy in order for his approval to plumment to Nixonesque levels. Even when he was only at 29%-32% back in May, that was because conservatives were pissed off at him for not being conservative ENOUGH on issues like immigration. Had they not defected from him, he never would have even dropped to that level.

[Lautremont]

13. Nazis don't like baseball.

You'd have to go to a football game. Otherwise, I concur.

[BootinUp]

11. Bwahahahahahhha!

CYA REPUKES! You torture lovin bastards!

[Zynx]

14. Their party weightens are accurate unlike Gallup's.

They have about a third for both parties and a third indies.

[Ignacio Upton]

19. Question: How much did Gallup weight the Republicans?

Did they oversample Republicans again?

[Mark E. Smith]

15. New SurveyUSA Poll Puts Puddin' @ 39%

http://www.surveyusa.com

Shrub is in the crapper.

[davekriss]

17. If we think the major media, ownership of which...

...is concentrated in the hands of the few, would bias news so, for example, in the runup to November 2000 there were just 6 major articles about GWB's insider trading at Harken while there were over several hundred about Gore's Buddhist temple "scandal", or in 2003 the media rushed to debate how the Iraq war should be executed instead of whether or not we should go to war in the first place -- in both cases leading public sentiment away from what was just and true -- then why shouldn't we suspect that "CBS/NY Times" polls are biased and misleading? Why should these poll numbers be any more reliable than their headlines?

What "propietary" superiority does Gallup or CBS/NY Times polling have over Voter News Service exit polling in 2002? We are being manipulated into plausibility.

I remember in the runup to the elections in 2004 some major newscaster interviewed Bush in the White House (Brian Williams?). Bush was obfuscating and dissembling, looking down before he spoke and hemming and hawing, until asked if he'd win in November. Suddenly Bush came together in calm focus and announced boldly that he knew he'd win. I turned to my wife and said it's over, the fix is in.

This election the MSM will paint the illusion that things are close, much closer than they'll be in actuality, and after the Republithugs steal enough seats to retain majorities in both the Senate and House, they will blithely remark how the Repugs were able to pull out a squeaker (maybe they'll use the Evangelical card again!).

We live in make-believe-democracy, folks, where we are free to do what we're told, and the liberty we so proudly tout amounts to the liberty of the master to exploit the slave.

Bottom line, we are told 37% think Bush is doing a great job, but the truth is it's probably closer to 27%.

[flyarm]

18. SO MUCH FOR GALLUPS BULLSHIT RIGHT??

GALLUP IS GULPING PISSY PANTS MONICA..

SORRY I JUST HAD TO .........

LOL...

FLY

[Gregorian]

20. OK, the media has no clothes. King George has no clothes.

Come on! Whoever is still in the room, come out and turn the lights off. It's time to stop pretending. The party is over.

[Pirate Smile]

21. NYT: Only 25% in Poll Voice Approval of the Congress(Bush at 37%-no bump)

Only 25% in Poll Voice Approval of the Congress

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER
Published: September 21, 2006

With barely seven weeks until the midterm elections, Americans have an overwhelmingly negative view of the Republican-controlled Congress, with substantial majorities saying that they disapprove of the job it is doing and that its members do not deserve re-election, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

-snip-
The poll also found that President Bush had not improved his own or his party’s standing through his intense campaign of speeches and events surrounding the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The speeches were at the heart of a Republican strategy to thrust national security to the forefront in the fall elections.

Mr. Bush’s job approval rating was 37 percent in the poll, virtually unchanged from the last Times/CBS News poll, in August. On the issue that has been a bulwark for Mr. Bush, 54 percent said they approved of the way he was managing the effort to combat terrorists, again unchanged from last month, though up from this spring.

-snip-
In the poll, 50 percent said they would support a Democrat in the fall Congressional elections, compared with 35 percent who said they would support a Republican. But the poll found that Democrats continued to struggle to offer a strong case for turning government control over to them; only 38 percent said the Democrats had a clear plan for how they would run the country, compared with 45 percent who said the Republicans had offered a clear plan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/us/politics/21poll.html?hp&ex=1158811200&en=9ae28e6b9d5785c3&ei=5094&partner=homepage

As Josh Marshall put it - "So the public is saying, yes, we know what the Republican plan is. But please, please make it end!"

[truthisfreedom]

22. a little more work to be done, but i believe that the Democratic Party is

looking up for once.

[yellowcanine]

23. The dead cat bounce appears to have ended. Now Bush is just a dead cat.

And quite a smelly one, also.

[Straight Shooter]

24. Don't insult cats. Little Boots is not a dead cat.

He is a dead frog with an exploded firecracker up his arse. ;)

[dunn]

35. Democrats plan is on their website under 'Agenda'. Not having a plan is...

right wing spin that people are believing.

[samsingh]

26. displeased with the repug controlled congress?

too soft.

[samsingh]

27. displeased? more like appalled and furious.

[ruggerson]

28. kick n/t

[dunn]

29. So if the GOP keeps control of Congress, wont that be proof of vote fraud?

First the 2000 fiasco, then 2004 with the exit polls showing Kerry well ahead. If the GOP stays in control, that will make it obvious to everyone that something is going on with the voting.

[dkofos]

31. you forgot 2002

[dunn]

34. Your right.

I actually don't remember what happened in 2002.

[leQ]

30. well, DUHHHH! (n/t)

[dkofos]

32. 25% approval and 90% of the idiots will be reelected

[LeftHander]

33. 12 years of repuke power has nearly killed this nation

Lies, pandering, insanity, fear, incompetance it is all so sordid...