Posted on 01/18/2005 11:04:53 PM PST by churchillbuff
Shortly before Bush's inauguration for his second term in office, and after he said in an interview that the 2004 election result proved that electorate approved of his handling of the war, a Washington Post/ABC News poll showed that 55 percent of Americans felt the Iraq war was not worth fighting, against 44 percent who thought it was.
Respondents also disapproved of Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq by a 58 to 40 percent margin, and 57 percent of the 1,007 adults surveyed by telephone from January 12-16 were not confident that the upcoming elections in Iraq would lead to a stable government.
Similarly, a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll published in the nationally distributed newspaper showed that Americans believed it was a mistake sending troops to Iraq by a 52-to-47 percent margin.
Also based on a telephone survey of 1,007 adults, taken January 14-16, the USA Today poll found that respondents were now more or less equally divided as to whether the United States should keep, increase, reduce current troops levels in Iraq.
Until September 2004, the prevailing opinion in polls was that troop levels should be maintained.
Bush also got majority disapproval ratings on a number of other issues in the Washington Post/ABC News poll: 52 percent disapproved of the way he is handling the US economy, Social Security (news - web sites) (55 percent), the budget deficit (58 percent), immigration (54 percent) and health care (51 percent).
Bush got high approval ratings for coping with terrorism (61 percent) and education (56 percent). In foreign affairs, environmental issues and taxes, respondents were divided.
However Bush's overall approval rating stood slightly higher than last month at 52 percent, and 55 percent of those surveyed said they expected him to do a better job as president during the next four years than he did in his first term.
The margin of error for both polls was plus or minus three percentage points.
In the midst of mostly negative headlines, it's easy to see the numbers on Iraq being what they are.
Wow, cool, I'm a minority. Can I have my welfare check now?
Funny, that they didn't use this data in the title:
"Bush got high approval ratings for coping with terrorism (61 percent) and education (56 percent). "
This is just another attempt to try to take away from the inauguration celebrations.
"telephone survey of 1,007 adults" What adults, where?
They were trying for replies, that will be against Bush and even with all that, 61% still think Bush is doing a good job on terrorism. That's why he got reelected.
Does this poll make you happy?
Gobbledy-gook. Polls are just a snapshot that mean nothing in particular. Time will write the way the Iraq war is to be remembered.
Are these the grandchildren of the folks who said we should stay out of WWII? Anybody have a poll on THAT?
I just pass along the news. Make of it what you will.
And only 25% of the people approve of the Media and their stupid polls.
"A Washington Post/ABC News poll said 45 per cent of those surveyed would prefer the country go in the direction Mr Bush wanted to lead it, while 39 per cent said Democrats should lead the way."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11986636%255E401,00.html
More people agree with Bush overall, that's why we reelected him, to the chagrin of the liberal leftist MSM.
Uh huh.
Of course it does...can't you tell?
It's news. If you don't want to be exposed to news, turn off the computer, pull the plug on the radio and TV, tell the mailman to stay away, and vegetate. That way, none of your preconceptions can be challenged by inconvenient facts.
We sure do.
You can slam me - the messenger - as much as you like, but that's not going to make this mess of a war popular with the American people.
President Bush won the only important poll on Nov 2, 2004. You might remember it, as it was in all the newspapers.
Would you pass along news of a poll with opposite results?
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