Zogby: Popularity of Iraq War at All Time Low

[JackD76]

Despite the "success" of the Iraq "election", a Zogby poll released on 2/27/05 shows that the popularity of the Iraq war has plunged to 39%, down from 52% two week earlier.

Additional info in the poll:


If the Election was today, who would you vote for?

46% Bush 42%Kerry.

If you could, would you elect Bush to a third term would you?

29% Yes 58% No

Approval Rating: 46%

Disapproval Rating: 53%

Approval Bush's handling of specific issues Approve/Disapprove:

Iraq War:
39% Approve 61% Disapprove

Jobs/Economy:
37% Approve 62% Disapprove

Social Security/Medicare:
33% Approve 63% Disapprove

Education:
37%Approve 60% Disapprove

Environment:
32% Approve 61% Disapprove

Terrorism:
54% Approve 44% Disapprove

Taxes:
44% Approve 54% Disapprove

Foreign Policy:
40%Approve 56% Disapprove

Which Party do you trust on Specific Issues Republican/Democrat:

Health care:
36%/50%

Environment:
32%/55%

Taxes:
50%/38%

Integrity:
45%/31%

Jobs/Economy:
42%/47%

Terrorism:
51%/30%

Values:
47%/35%

Tolerance:
33%/50%

Family Values:
48%/32%

Foreign Policy:
42%/45%

Right track/Wrong track-
49%/47%

Iraq War Worth Cost

39% Yes 54% No

[BlueEyedSon]

1. "Popularity"? Weird choice of words.... like it's a sit-com or something.

[atommom]

6. Kind of like that stupid "Who would you rather have a beer with?"

question I kept hearing during the campaign!

[Jacobin]

2. It's official. America is Clinically Schizophrenic.

[Massacure]

3. 29% would reelect him? A little late.

Looks like things are gonna go down before they go back up.

[XemaSab]

4. The, um, *cough* popularity

of the war and our fearless leader has nowhere to go but down.

Can we get a recall????????????

[LynnTheDem]

5. Link please!

Ta. :)

[XOKCowboy]

11. Google comes through again...

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=971

[LynnTheDem]

14. Thanks!

:)

[BikeWriter]

31. Thank you!

[jojo54]

7. Unfortunately there will be another poll soon

that will show a much higher number. Not over 50%, but it will be up there. The BFEE can't have one of their "mandates" smelling like shit.

[Quixote1818]

8. Welcome to DU JackD76!

:toast: Great Post! It made my day!

[LynnTheDem]

9. Amazing. 2 mths after taking office he has those figures.

And he's STILL IN OFFICE???

Now let's get to work on explaining to the morans how in fact BUSH HAS MADE US ALL LESS SAFE because HE SUCKS ON "TERRORISM".

[Quixote1818]

10. OMFG!!!! Look at this stat!

Integrity:
45%/31%

Republicans are beating Dems on Integrity by 14 points?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
:wtf: :argh: :hurts: :wow: :thumbsdown: :mad: :grr:

[LynnTheDem]

13. Majority of bush supporters still believe:

Iraq did 911;
Iraq in bed with al Qaeda;
Iraq had WMD;
we've found WMD in Iraq;
the world supported bush's invasion of Iraq;
the world supported the election of bush;
bush supports multilateral approaches to international issues
supports the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty;
favors US participation in the Kyoto treaty;
supports the International Criminal Court;
favors including labor and environmental standards in trade agreements...

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/html/new_10_21_04.html

In other words, they're so dumb, they don't yet realize that bush is a big ugly liar with no integrity whatsover.

That, and they're just dumb, period.

[tinonedown]

12. The bottom is not far off.

How low will it go.......

[UTUSN]

15. But...But...Everything Is Going So WELL!!! n/t

[IndyPriest]

16. How f*** does he win on terrorism when he loses on Iraq???

The whole point, supposedly, in going to Iraw was to "win the war on terrorism"???????

[Disturbed]

18. Uh, is it not obvious by now that....

that millions of Amerikans are real ignorant &/or stupid?

[w4rma]

32. He loses on foreign policy, also. (nt)

[Tactical Progressive]

17. The difference is that you heard the high numbers on every TV

news channel. You won't be hearing the lower numbers nearly as often.

[ultraist]

19. Low marks for Dems on terrorism and taxes, that's bad news for 06 races

Dems better get busy. Terrorism and taxes whipped our asses last election too.

[JackD76]

20. Morality did

not terrorism. Kerry and bush were nearly tied on the issue of terrorim by the end of the election. The trick was that the republicans switched the focus of the election after kerry won the national security debate to morality and values. However, the good news for the dems is that dean is the chairmen and he is out there setting up grassroots campaigns in red states as we speak. 2006 could be the democrat's contract with america.

[LynnTheDem]

23. "morality" did not.

That was a rightwingnut piece of BS.

It was "terrorism".

Want links?

[ultraist]

25. I agree, it was terrorism

And the Swift Boat liar ads did a real number on Kerry. The Kerry campaign tried desperately to shift the focus to domestic issues and were not successful. Even Mary Beth Cahill said this.

[LynnTheDem]

28. Kerry should have slammed those frigging liars like he slammed them 30 yrs

ago, when O'Neill was laughed out of town by leftwing & rightwing. And then he should have slammed the bush-bitches on the US State Media for their bullshit.

Every single thing the SBLs claimed was PROVEN FALSE. Multiple times.

But hey, ANY AMERICANS who can chant on about PURPLE HEART BANDAIDS and MOCK OUR MILITARY and call the entire US Navy nothing but LIARS are THE MOST UNPATRIOTIC BASTARDS this country has EVER been so unfortunate to have.

[ultraist]

30. He should have IMMEDIATELY slammed them, you're right, BIG MISTAKE

There were some within the campaign that were pushing for that but MBCahill made a really bad call on that, by holding back.

They wanted to do an ad asap that slammed each and every one of those liars, one by one. That one decision may have cost us the election. (aside from the cheating of course)

[grasswire]

34. there were some here who advocated...

...immediate response to the Swifty stuff. The DU-er formerly known as BuyCitGo raised a stink about it. To no avail.

[LynnTheDem]

21. When will rightwingnuts ever learn...

Approval rating for BUSH'S INVASION of Iraq;

39%.

And just think; if the warmongering moran MINORITY had bothered to STFU for 2 minutes and LISTEN to half of America and to the rest of the entire world BEFORE bush's war of aggression, all those people now dead & torn to shreds Americans, "coalition", and Iraqis would still be sane and whole and alive.

Oh yeah, and we wouldn't be the #1 most despised nation in the world, we wouldn't now be LESS SAFE, we wouldn't have INCREASED THE THREAT of terrorism, and we wouldn't have $300 billion gone (with at least another $200 billion to go).

And yes that means Saddam Hussein would still be in power...JUST LIKE BUSH SAID HE COULD:

bush; Saddam can keep rule if he complies
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-10-2002_pg4_1

Rice and Powell Say that a Disarmed Saddam Could Stay in Power
http://www.intelmessages.org/Messages/National_Security/wwwboard/messages/2159.html

Saddam can stay if he disarms, Powell says
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Saddam+can+stay+if+he+disarms%2C+Powell+says&btnG=Search

Tony Blair; "If military action proves necessary, it will be to uphold the authority of the UN and to ensure Saddam is disarmed of his weapons of mass destruction, not to overthrow him. It is why, detestable as I find his regime, he could stay in power if he disarms peacefully."
http://www.sundayherald.com/print31827

And guess what? Hussein WAS disarmed, and had been since the early 1990s. Just as he'd been saying all along. But that couldn't be proved BEFORE bush's invasion, because BUSH KICKED THE UN WEAPONS TEAMS OUT OF IRAQ.

[ultraist]

26. Oh, but they are "spreading democracy."

Ya, fucking right.

excellent post!

[Booster]

22. These stats just prove to me that the election was definitely

stolen, but without guts the Dems will lose more.

[LiberalPersona]

24. These are really wonky numbers

The Iraq/Terrorism thing is crazy.

And 54% Disapprove of what Bush is doing with taxes, yet 50% still trust republicans more with taxes? How fucking dense can you get? What will it take for people to wake up and see that democrats actually do a better job in that area? I mean, the record deficit sure doesn't seem to be enough.

[ultraist]

27. The power of propaganda.

[LynnTheDem]

29. You'd think after "READ MY LIPS" they'd have got it. But then, with the

biggest DEFICIT in US history, rethugs still think Dems are the big spenders party.

And with bush STILL at a NET JOB LOSS, the first since Hoover, and since EVERY DEM president has done BETTER than every rethug on jobs, you'd think they'd have got that, too.

But there's a reason rightwingnuts are the STUPIDEST MFers on the planet.

[Swamp Rat]

33. Looks like a lot of republicans have the "stupid gene."