Posted on 02/10/2006 11:36:26 AM PST by presidio9
- President Bush's marks on overall job approval and for handling the economy are mired near their lowest levels despite a spike in consumer confidence over the past month, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
Bush's job approval is now at 40 percent and his approval on handling the economy at 39 percent. Those numbers haven't budged over the last month even with the public's confidence in the economy growing and the president delivering an upbeat State of the Union address.
Consumer confidence was measured at its highest level in 16 months in the RBC CASH index released Friday.
The AP-Ipsos poll found that the president has slightly improved his standing on handling foreign policy and terrorism to 47 percent. This comes as the public has grown more accepting of the administration's policy on domestic eavesdropping, with almost half now supporting it — up from 42 percent last month.
The president has been campaigning aggressively for that program over the last month, repeatedly telling people that eavesdropping on some international calls is legal and necessary in his war against terrorism.
The poll found low approval of Congress with 47 percent wanting Democrats to take control. Republican control was favored by 37 percent.
The telephone poll of 1,000 adults was conducted Monday through Wednesday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Rassmussen has Bush's support at 48%.
Oh no! Now we should just raise taxes & cut and run from Iraq now. Then President Bush will be so popular!!!
Yahoooooooooo!
Silly Apes...
Rasmussen is the only poll worth paying attention to. Consistent methodology, and a reliable track record.
These figures have not relation to Bush's actual job performance, but are the results of a lying media.
Anyone know what the actual questions were?
AP's marks on overall job approval and for handling the news are mired near their lowest levels despite a spike in liberal confidence over the past month, a ravingnutter poll found.
The sad thing is that the libs believe their own propaganda and disinformation, and blame Diebold when they lose.
Rasmussen does indeed show that result, and has done so consistently. The one thing Rasmussen does that the others don't is maintain a constant partisan mix. He keeps calling until enough Dem, GOP and Independent answer the survey to hit the target mix, and that mix is defined by who showed up last election.
The other pollsters have severe systemic sampling problems that did not exist in previous decades. The source of news is from other sources than it once was. This disparity is adjusting who answers the phone. Rasmussen has to make more phone calls to get the correct mixture of party responses, but once he does, his measure of attitudes is superior.
I think the question was phrased as follows: Do you approve of Mr. Bush's performance when he has lied to the American people, wants to steal from the poor to give to the rich, hates blacks, and wants to take away all women's rights?< /sarcasm>
No where to go but up!!!!
I would guess they run something like this:
Do you think Bush's dismal performance has gotten less worse or more worse?
Yeah, I figured it was something like that - LOL.
Best economy that never got reported.
"AP-Ipsos is stuck polling 10% more Democrats"
You probably hit the nail on the head.
My headline: " Will Lester is stuck on stupid for not revealing the make up of the sample for the AP Biased poll."
Lets see, the most difficult presidency since Reconstruction, 9/11, Katrina, 2 wars, inherited a mild recession. The President has been maligned and trashed by a media that cannot admit to its own bias, feeding a left wing constituency that has been out of power for decades, and is so desparate that they have gone, literally, insane, supported by a host of rich liberal elites, who control the media culture that has made the President enemy #1. And yet after all that, he still has at least a 40%-48% approval rate. Not bad actually.
OMG, what's Bush going to do in '08?
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