NYT Poll Numbers: Bush at 29% (down from 34% in OCT, down 13% among Repubs)

[Hissyspit]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/new-bush-iraq-poll-numbers/

March 1, 2007, 6:40 pm
New Bush, Iraq Poll Numbers
By Marjorie Connelly

In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. Mr. Bush’s approval rating dropped 13 percentage points since last fall among Republicans, 65 percent of whom now say they approve of the way he is handling his job as president, compared with 78 percent last October.

Over all, Mr. Bush’s job approval remains at one of its lowest points, with 29 percent of all Americans saying they approve of the way he is doing his job, compared with 34 percent at the end of October. Sixty-one percent disapproved, compared with 58 percent in October, within the margin of sampling error.

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Three-quarters of those polled say things are going badly for the United States in Iraq, and only 23 percent say the efforts to bring stability and order to Iraq are going well. Seventy percent, including 52 percent of Republicans, say there is not much the United States military can do to reduce the sectarian fighting in Iraq.

Over all, 23 percent of the public say the country is going in the right direction and 68 percent consider it as having “gotten off on the wrong track.”

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[Uncle Joe]

1. Still sounds artificially high to me. n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. The fact that 65% of Republicans still approve of Bush is proof of one thing:

Blind partisanship makes you stupid.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. no,

being stupid to start with makes you a blind partisan neocon supporter. PLEASE get the order correct! :)

[CTyankee]

18. Since I know one of them, I know what you mean!

This guy has built a lifetime on the idea that if you vote Republican you will be rich and absolutely correct on every political and social problem. His parents died in poverty and he obviously swore he wouldn't be like that. Of course, he didn't mind taking GI benefits to go to college or his VA loan for his first house or the SS he now collects and the Medicare he now enjoys. BUt tell him that all of these benefits were as a result of DEMOCRATIC presidents and well, he would have a stroke!

[salinen]

3. America becoming less stupid

[ArbustoBuster]

7. Eight years ago that would have sounded like a headline in The Onion.

Now it sounds like hopefulness.

[struggle4progress]

5. Fare thee well, Titanic, fare thee well! (And she went right on down.)

[jazzjunkysue]

6. Hey, you 29%: I've got this Nigerian who needs help getting some money into

the country. If you give him your checking account number, he'll dump it right into your account. Just send him a check for half of it now......

[Uncle Joe]

9. That's a good one jazzjunkysue

:rofl:

[jazzjunkysue]

25. Why, thank you. Gotta laugh, or it's unbearable. n.t,

[European Socialist]

8. That means he only has to go down another 28% for Dems to stand up to him.

[bdamomma]

10. but we should all know that this arrrogant and ignorant man

does not care about the polls or the people, he will keep doing what he is doing, unless something stops him!!

[NastyRiffraff]

11. You can fool some of the people all of the time...

But you can fool 29% of the people ALL of the time.

Sometimes the stupidity just plain HURTS.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. I have a feeling it's all downhill from here

especially if the "surge" fizzles out in Iraq and the economy goes into a stall. Bush may be lucky not to end up in the teens.

[LaPera]

13. President Bush is poised for a political comeback. - David Broder

Everyone, including Bush's supporters all know he's a liar, an imbecile and that his policies, agenda and ideology are aimed exclusively for the wealthy & the corporations.

Bush's bullshit imperialism and war for profit has been forever exposed...there is no way people are going to view him differently...but idiots like Broder think it's all about phoniness and image, the fool Broder thinks it about trends as in the past...and not about policy...what a dinosaur, an old school pile of shit, he too just doesn't get it!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/16/143314/533
"You know the people inside the DC beltway are out of touch when one of their demigods, David Broder, utters crap like this:

It may seem perverse to suggest that the "Dean" of the DC punditocracy will see his predictions fall flat on his face. Well, not really. It would only seem perverse to those members of the failed DC media establishment. But what will genuinely be perverse is the lack of accountability Broder will face when his prediction falls flat on its face.

So let's hold him accountable.

First of all, how do we define "political comeback"? I would argue that Bush would have to garner a majority of the American public's approval -- 50 percent -- to qualify. But to be charitable, let's say "comeback" means 40-45 percent approvals in the aggregate of opinion polls.

Where are we now?"

29%!!

[Blashyrkh]

14. Actually.

"68 percent consider it as having “gotten off on the wrong track."

I think they're trying to say "Gotten off at the wrong station" or "Gone down the wrong track".

I mean, it's not rocket surgery.

[Hissyspit]

15. .

[indepat]

16. What are the 29% in la-la land thinking?

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Surge to the bottom!

Surge your "unitary" ass back to Texas ASAP!

[RestoreGore]

19. So does that mean impeachment is imminent? n/t

[progressoid]

20. dropped 13 percentage points since last fall among Republicans....

Um, is there anyone besides Repubs that are still supporting this loser?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

21. First Name: Joe

Last Name: Lieberman

[Catfight]

22. I never got how he was ever above that at anytime in his life. He's

the worst president and worst person in the world. All of this could have been avoided had the courts and katherine harris never been allowed to squander the votes. All the lives that are now gone because of just a few people and no outrage when he stole the election.

[in_cog_ni_to]

23. I wonder, since polls have been taken in politics, what are the lowest numbers for a prez?

29% has got to be close to the lowest ever!

What a loser.

[Hissyspit]

24. This will help some:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x141861

[jazzjunkysue]

26. Historic low approvals. Yet, no MS media will state it in those terms.

Not only has the GOP lost faithful, but the media will never regain its credibility after the Chimperfuhrer.

[in_cog_ni_to]

27. Bwahahahahahaha!

HE IS THE LOWEST! It's nice to know I'm not completely insane. I'm not the only one who detests that waste of oxygen.