New PEW poll: Bush approval . . .33%

[Bluebear]

In the aftermath of the Dubai ports deal, President Bush's approval rating has hit a new low and his image for honesty and effectiveness has been damaged. Yet the public uncharacteristically has good things to say about the role that Congress played in this high-profile Washington controversy.

Most Americans (58%) believe Congress acted appropriately in strenuously opposing the deal, while just 24% say lawmakers made too much of the situation. While there is broad support for the way Congress handled the dispute, more Americans think Democratic leaders showed good judgment on the ports issue than say the same about GOP leaders (by 30%-20%).

The new Pew survey underscores the public's alarm over the prospect that an Arab-owned company could have operated U.S. ports. Fully 41% say they paid very close attention to news about the debate, which is unusually high interest for a Washington story and is only slightly lower than the number tracking Iraq war news very closely (43%). There was broad opposition to the proposed deal from across the political spectrum, including two-to-one disapproval among conservative Republicans (56%-27%).

Bush's overall approval measure stands at 33%, the lowest rating of his presidency. Bush's job performance mark is now about the same as the ratings for Democratic and Republican congressional leaders (34% and 32%, respectively), which showed no improvement in spite of public approval of the congressional response to the ports deal.

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=271

[Burried News]

1. Poor George - if only the media would explain all the good things

happening. Well Tweety, looks like you gonna have to do a lot more whoring for Karl to gitRdone.

[debbierlus]

2. Yeah. Better not censure Bush, might offend the 4 people in Mississippi

Who still like him....

[liberal N proud]

3. Slip Sliding away~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Karenca]

5. How low do you thimk it's going to go?

And yet he still acts as if he has "A MANDATE".
I can't wait to see it go below 30%!

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. And don't forget about his "political capitol" he still claims to have.

Heard he say that the other day. What a Loser!

[liberal N proud]

8. 20% - But I doubt the media will ever report it that low

[Karenca]

9. maybe he'll be gone before then?

wishful thinking..............:eyes:

[WiseButAngrySara]

4. Just heard that on CNN; also WSJ at 35% approval and most recent

CNN poll 36%. I'm truly astoonished at how HIGH this "low" is! With what this non-being has done to our country, his numbers should be in the negative, BLACK HOLE that he is!

[SoFlaJet]

10. I guess these latest numbers

shoot to hell the idea that mostly democrats are taking the surveys

[Neil Lisst]

6. PEW has always been generous to Bush, IMO

before this, anyway

[niyad]

11. "his image for honesty and effectiveness"????? what in the **** are these

people smoking?????

[WiseButAngrySara]

12. Snort!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[BooScout]

13. The Dumb Fucks voted for him.......

I just can't understand why they aren't happy with him now.:sarcasm:

[Deja Q]

14. They thought Kerry would be worse.

Amazing, what preconception has on people. :(

[BooScout]

15. They can lay in their bed and wallow in it now.....

Down in the pig shit with good old *.

[populistdriven]

18. Zogby should poll "Do you think Kerry would have been worse than Bush is?"

[Julius Civitatus]

16. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2516038

[eppur_se_muova]

17. That wrapped to the next line as .33%, ie 0.33%.

First number that ever looked appropriate to me.