NEWSWEEK POLL: Bush's Approval Rating Slips to New Low

[CatWoman]

Today's News
NEWSWEEK POLL: Bush's Approval Rating Slips to New Low (48%); Fifty Percent of Voters Say They Don't Want to See Him Re-Elected (45% Do);

Kerry Strengthens Lead to 48 Percent, 35 Points Ahead of Nearest Rival Dean;
Wins in Match-Up With Bush (50% To 45%)

Fifty-Eight Percent Say Gay Marriage Should Not Be Legal;
Majority Says Issue of Gay Marriage Very Important (22%) or Somewhat
Important (32%) in Determining Their Vote for President

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- President George W. Bush's approval rating has slipped to 48 percent, the lowest level since February 2001, according to the Newsweek poll. Fifty percent of registered voters say they would not like to see Bush re-elected to a second term (45% say they would).

And if the election were held today, Democratic frontrunner Sen. John Kerry would win over Bush by 50 percent to 45 percent among registered voters.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-07-2004/0002105043&EDATE=

[WillyT]

1. Well... It Only Makes Sense After All !!!

Since the Chimpmeister is an all-time low for the presidency, it's nice to see the polls catch up (down, maybe?) to that fact!!!

:evilgrin:

Psst... Hey Beautiful, wanna come ta California???

:loveya:

[BayCityProgressive]

2. the gay marriage

polling is disturbing. I hope people wake up soon and don't hand Bush another term over this issue.

[JoFerret]

10. Kerry has said

his position is the same as Dick Cheney's. Signalling a hard-ball defense on this issue I think. We will just have to grin and bear it and hope for better times. He has always been a supporter of civil rights for the GLBT community.

[lancdem]

15. Maybe it's not as bad as it seems

That 32 percent who think it's somewhat important likely won't consdier it a make-or-break issue.

[Name removed]

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[Bandit]

6. If those are Fox numbers then Kerry is a shoe-in

Fox is 90% GOP Propaganda so if even they have Bush* at such low numbers then he is in serious trouble.

[Liberal Dragon]

8. Fox may be Biased, but Polls aren't

If Fox was Communist, and Hitler ran for President, and 100% of people were against him, Fox would show that 3 or 4% were still for him. Fox isn't totally stupid you know. Otherwise they'd give Bush a 70% approval rating LOL. I promise you that when other polls arrive at http://www.pollingreport.com you're going to see Kerry slipping. Kerry's past his prime now. I predict a Dean re-emergence, but kind of a weak one. Going to be fun to watch.

[NNN0LHI]

14. Then why are FOX polls always so different then the rest I wonder?

Must be a coincidence or something? Yea, sure pal. And as for "Fox isn't totally stupid you know." I agree. Just FOX viewers are.

Don

[Cooley Hurd]

29. And why does the Faux poll include Hillary?

Just wondering...

[lancdem]

17. You missed my point about Fox not being in line with

every other recent poll. Newsweek isn't the one that's out in left (make that "right") field. Kerry is hardly past his prime; he didn't even win the nomination yet. As for Dean, if he's sending out feelers about the VP slot, he's not "re-emerging." He's preparing to back our nominee.

[Robbien]

20. You do not believe Fox is stupid

In another thread you think Hillary is waiting to swoop down and take over the Democratic Party and that the economy and jobs are booming?

Why are you repeating Faux and GOP propaganda here?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

24. You know why.

It's as plain as the nose on your face. Just do a search by author and read.

[put out]

22. Are you saying Hitler was Communist? Please clarify your point.

[mouse7]

27. Not saying this was the case here, but...

I just got done with about a 6 day long flame war over neo-cons taking the word "socialist" from the National Socialist Party of Germany (NAZIS) and claiming that because that word was in the title of the Nazi Party, anyone to the left of Nixon was Nazis.

I was so thrown by the ridiculousness of the argument, that it took me a bit to really address the stupidity properly.

The way it's handled is by showing that in 1934, the Nazi party was purged of anyone on the left and Nazis started throwing anyone to the left of Hitler in Concentration Camps.

Also, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) wasn't exactly a model of one-man, one vote principles.

Also, according to their rules, it proves that Republicans are really a Maoist Chinese Communists conspiracy, because just look at the name... The People's REPUBLIC of China. It couldn't be more clear that Republicans want to be Red China, right?

That pissed 'em off.

[GinaMaria]

28. Don't forget the IRA!

[Arugula Latte]

31. A little tip for you, "Liberal" Dragon

When freepers try to go undercover on DU, only the really lame ones are so obvious about "outing" themselves with a "Hillary in 2008" sig line.

[snippy]

32. You are incorrect. All polls contain bias. Fox more so than others.

That is why Fox polls consistently differ in the same direction and by the same margin from other polls concerning Bush. Fox News lacks any honor or integrity. Just like Bush himself and many of his supporters who deceptively and mendaciously post here.

[Teaser]

34. Almost all polls are biased...

Because they al assume "turnout models" for their pollees.

It is almost sure that "Opinion Dynamics'" own turnout models skew Republican. Fox would not pick a pollster that did not skew Republican.

[tabasco]

11. Hahahahahaha - getting nervous, LD???

Just keep watching your Fox polls and you'll feel better!!!

[lancdem]

12. Newsweek biased? You're kidding, right?

A half a dozen other polls in the past week show Bush under 50 percent. Fox is the only one with him over 50 percent.

[Journeyman]

13. z z z Z. . .

n/t

[pinto]

16. what does "respondents pushed for decision" mean in polling terms?

Anyone know? I see the disclaimer at the lead of Fox poll.

[hlthe2b]

18. Why in the name of heaven, would you be basing your opinion on

how things "look for Kerry" on a Faux "news" poll? :shrug:

[Lostmessage]

23. Like Fox is a "real" news channel

They have an agenda and what they post or talk about I would take it with a grain of salt.

[Arugula Latte]

25. Here's a tip, "Liberal" Dragon:

When freepers such as yourself try to go under the radar on DU, they're generally smart enough not to give themselves away so readily with a "Hillary in 2008" sig line -- got it?

[CatWoman]

26. LOL

You beat me to it!!!!

[Cooley Hurd]

30. I'm with ya, but...

...you shouldn't call others on this board "freepers"..it's against DU rules. Just hit alert, like I did...

[Eddie Current]

4. He has Joe-mentum

[Zhade]

7. Hahaha...I know that's mean, but I couldn't help laughing anyway.

NT!

[truthisfreedom]

5. perhaps Kerry's position should be "Either the president loves freedom and

equality, or he doesn't. As President, I will protect freedom and equality to the best of my ability. I don't believe it's the President's job to promote modifications to our brilliant forefathers' Constitution that limit freedoms, that reduce equality, when our great Country has been moving forward to guarantee the greatest degree of freedom and equality in the world for over 200 years. The bush administration has reduced freedoms and limited equality more than any administration in US history, and if president bush wants to focus on limiting freedoms and reducing equality even more, I say, bring it on. In an time when our unemployment has exploded to record numbers, and promises made to make our streets safer from terrorist attacks have been broken, leaving our cities struggling to pay for additional police under the new 'bush tax,' it seems to me that karl rove's obsession with reducing freedoms even further is an insulting, wrongheaded approach for the American People."

[Fridays Child]

9. Sounds like it's...Time for Terrorism! ®

Go, Tom, Go

[Yavin4]

19. Time To Get Osama Bin Laden Ready for His Closeup

Somewhere in the world, some production assistant is knocking on OBL's dressing room saying, "Five minutes until show time OBL."

[Fridays Child]

33. They will spring him but they're hoping to wait until October.

Wouldn't it be great if we could force their hand early, and get past the Osama Effect® November?

[mouse7]

21. Need to spend some resources on gay marriage voter education

This poll result is that high because people don't understand the issue. I think if we get moveon.org and some other issue advocacy groups to spend some resources on voter education explaining gay marriage as a civil rights issue, we'll recapture the middle on this. We'll never convert the hard right, but we can recapture the middle by discussing the issue as a "civil rights for all" issue. Howard Dean explained this issue very well, and the Party should borrow a page out of Dean's issue book to explain this more fully to voters.