Rasmussen Poll: Bush @ 46% (Highest in 1 month)

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[patriciamary]

Everyone should get a hold of Fox and tell them what they think.Anyone have the number for Fox News ?

[ez]

Our President, George W. Bush needs every measure of our support to fight off the combined propaganda attack of the DNC, France, Soros, AlQueda, the UN, and the Beltway Press.

[ez]

Price of regular in South Jersey at --drumroll---$1.99---this morning and dropping!

I guess this kills my buddies' contention that rising gas prices were not the result of Katrina, but of Bush Admin policies.

Unfortunately, a lie is halfway around the world before truth gets it's pants on.

[varyouga]

"But,it's not over."

That's right fellow DUmmies, we're only $10 away from impeaching Bush! Send more of your piggy banks to the plamegate fund.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Did they take the poll before or after the VA Day Speech?

[DarthVader]

It was taken before he blasted them, look for another bump up. Also look for the attacks on Rats to continue as Bill Sammon of the WT said. Heck even Scott McClellan hammered fat,drunk and stupid Ted Kennedy yesterday. I see the Alito , Fed head nominations lowering gas prices and good economic news has been good for him and you see these results in this poll.

[Arizona Carolyn]

If they take a lesson from California this week and show up to vote... we cannot afford to not vote... McCain is probably counting on the Conservatives sitting out '08.

[Salvation]

Is the tide turning? I think so.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Just because they are dropping is no excuse for any of us to allow the SOROS-Republicans to dictate our future gasoline prices by taking ANWR, etc., off the table. We need to find some true conservative Congressmen and Senators to replace all these people starting in '06.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Maybe now that the heat is shifting in NOLA (the levee investigation) he'll back off on his big-spending plan... what he does need to do is figure out what is going on at FEMA and fix (or dismantle)it. That still leaves the borders and illegal immigration and he needs to take the GOP in hand and get ANWR through once and for all.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Brownback vs Edwards????? What a boring race.

[bnelson44]

My guess is both. We well see if there is a trend with tomorrow's numbers.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Did you see the Newsweek headline on MSN????? They have him dropping like a rock. I swear if a person read Newsweak and didn't think for his/herself you'd think he was the anti-Christ.

[patriciamary]

I support my President.Since becoming old enough to vote I voted Republican.I'm just tired of this administration giving into the Democrats,as well as my republican respentatives.It's not over because the Media and the Democrats are just waiting for Libby's fate,they want to get Cheney tied into this NO-Crime witch hunt,and the republicans always do and say too little too late.

[Democracy In Iraq]

Newsweek is heading in the opposite direction with its results, although the first sentence of their article makes it clear whom you should trust for news on the President's popularity:

In the wake of the bombings in Jordan by suspected followers of Iraq’s Al Qaeda chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the indictment of top White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby and the withdrawal of Harriet Miers’s nomination to the Supreme Court, President George W. Bush is sinking deeper and deeper into political trouble, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll.

I found it interesting and revealing that this article would try to spin the bombings in Jordan as a negative for the President, completely ignoring mobs in the streets who were shouting "death to Zarqawi" and "death to al Qaeda".

Almost as interesting is the reference to Harriet Miers, which this article later links to a crumbling of Bush's base.

Last I checked, the President nominated a solid conservative. While it's true that the Miers nomination upset a number conservatives who may never again approve of the President, the Alito nomination can only serve to move the numbers in an upward direction, not make things worse.

If you can read far enough into the article without being overwhelmed by the intellectual black hole it is, you might be pleased to see a bit of mitigating information following all the doomsday speak:

Bush’s new approval low of 36 percent in the NEWSWEEK poll equals the low point of Bill Clinton’s presidency in May 1993, when the former president hit 36 percent. The 41st president, George H.W. Bush, hit his lowest ratings late in 1992 before he was defeated by Clinton. A Gallup poll in July 1992 recorded a 32 percent approval rate for the first President Bush. But other presidents have fared worse. Jimmy Carter scored 28-29 percent in June and July 1979, according to Gallup. President Richard Nixon’s Gallup number dropped to 24 percent in August 1974.

So, if anyone tries to tell you that Newsweek's 36% finding indicates a failed presidency, remind him or her that the President is in good company.

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