"...Rising Oil Prices and Schiavo are Hurting Bush Greatly"

[ailsagirl]

Friday :: Mar 25, 2005

Start Playing "Taps" Karl - Gallup Says Rising Oil Prices, And Schiavo Are Hurting Bush Greatly

The latest CNN/USAT/Gallup Poll taken Monday through Wednesday of this week shows, as other polls have done recently, that Bush’s approval rating has fallen, in some cases to the lowest level of his presidency. According to the Gallup poll, Bush’s approval rating is now down to 45%, a seven-point drop from 52% just last week. And although this poll mirrors other recent polls that have also shown Bush’s numbers drop on the economy and Iraq, as he has pushed privatization and inserted himself into the Terri Schiavo tragedy, I am hesitant to put much into this poll for one major reason.

The poll had a Democratic bias of 5 points in its sample (37% Democrat, 32% Republican), while the recent Gallup polls had a GOP bias. Do I think Democrats have an edge over Republicans right now? Yes. Do I think it is five points? Maybe not, given that Harris feels it is three points through 2004. But what if the Terri Schiavo exploitation has led to more people self-identifying as Democrats now, and what if this isn’t a transitory move but the first signs of a shift towards the Democrats leading up to the 2006 elections? We’ll see.

Kudos to both USAT and Gallup for making the party ID numbers front and center in the story and the release.

The factors contributing to increasing dissatisfaction with the way Bush is handling his job also appear to be causing some Americans to drift toward identification with the Democratic Party, at least temporarily. The poll shows that the percentages of Americans who say they identify "as of today" as either a Republican or an independent are down slightly, from 35% Republican in Gallup's last poll to 32% in this poll, and from 31% independent to 29% independent. Identification with the Democratic Party is up from 32% to 37%. These relatively slight changes do not suggest a fundamental shift in the partisan structure in America today so much as they reflect a more negative mood at the moment toward both the president and his party.
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http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/003983.php#more

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. this deserves a full violin section

:evilgrin:
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[Cha]

2. We all know when the monkeyboy's

numbers were down in 2001..9/11 happened! ANd then they went sky high except for "10%" that included moi!

[glitch]

10. And moi. And everyone I know, so not too sure about the 10%

could be another skewage.

[Cha]

13. My thought, too!

:evilgrin:

[katsy]

3. the neocons...

are quite adept at fostering negative moods, as well as despair and panic.

It's the one thing that gives me hope for the 2006 elections.

[illflem]

4. What difference does it make since he's not up for reelection?

[Kurovski]

8. It's mid-term elections that are important now.

More Dems voted in can put the breaks on George & pals.

It will also make talk of impeachment more practical, as well.

[glitch]

11. Don't forget about lil brother jebbie, otherwise known as * II. nt

[ginnyinWI]

15. it does matter,

because his numbers relate to how responsive the Repubs on the Hill are to his proposals. They still have to worry about reelection, some of them as early as 2006. If the Chimp doesn't have the will of the people with him, he's not gonna get much done on the Hill!

[babylonsister]

5. The fact that the blivet isn't getting any

exposure, RE: SS reform, makes me one happy camper. Actually, the less I see of him, the better.

[movonne]

6. Time to be afraid...another terra alert or worst..

[teryang]

7. Totalitarian breaking point- how do you like it now?

The schism between reality and the media fantasy world has pushed most of what's left of the middle class (struggling to hang on) into a world familiar to eastern Europeans, Russians and Latin Americans well acquainted the subjective perceptions imposed by dictatorship and one party regimes.

[indepat]

9. Were the election today, GWB would still get 51% because its who counts

the votes that counts.

[rzemanfl]

12. 5% is a "relatively slight change" while 1% is a "mandate?"

Take your kool-aid stand elsewhere Mr. Gallup,my "mood at the moment" is-sick of you.

[DrZeeLit]

14. Why should they care? They're all RICH beyond their wildest dreams and

never have to work another day in their sad, sorry lives. They will not have to worry about health care or pensions as they grow old.

So, they are laughing all the way to the bank. It's a wonder they even go in to the office. They are on auto-pilot until they leave.

In fact, they might be have an office pool -- how low can our numbers go?

If one person DARES to say to me... "I shouldn't have voted for him" --- I'm going to HIT something.

Worse, if one person I know voted for him every complains AT ALL, about ANY THING.... even gas prices.... I'm going to lay into that person like a tornado.

And I'm keeping my Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker for a long, long time.

[bpilgrim]

16. "Even if OPEC opens the spigots for him" - NEWSFLASH: Peak Oil is NOW

"Even if OPEC opens the spigots for him, which I expect them to do now to bail him out, will gas prices fall far enough during the summer to brighten consumers’ moods?"

psst... pass the word ;->

peace