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CBS News Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low
CBS News ^ | 2/27/2006 | CBS/AP

Posted on 02/27/2006 5:06:03 PM PST by HitmanLV

(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.

CBS News senior White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that now it turns out the Coast Guard had concerns about the ports deal, a disclosure that is no doubt troubling to a president who assured Americans there was no security risk from the deal.

The troubling results for the Bush administration come amid reminders about the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and negative assessments of how the government and the president have handled it for six months.

In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September’s poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall.

Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.

For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall.

Just 30 percent approve of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low.

By two to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are going badly – the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq.

Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr. Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve.

In a bright spot for the administration, most Americans appeared to have heard enough about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.

More then three in four said it was understandable that the accident had occurred and two-thirds said the media had spent too much time covering the story.

Still, the incident appears to have made the public's already negative view of Cheney a more so. Just 18 percent said they had a favorable view of the vice president, down from 23 percent in January.

Americans were evenly split on whether or not Cheney's explanation of why there was a delay in reporting the accident was satisfactory.


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To: HitmanLV

"Total Respondents 1018

Total Republicans 272
Total Democrats 409
Total Independents 337 "


161 posted on 02/27/2006 6:13:03 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: Brilliant

Obviously they're trying to pump them up with this gambit.

Why don't they just put their wives, mothers and daughters up for sale during the commercials -- and maybe they can draw some attention and credibility to themselves?


162 posted on 02/27/2006 6:13:40 PM PST by MikeHu
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To: Recovering_Democrat

see #161


163 posted on 02/27/2006 6:14:14 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: HitmanLV

Not in an election year.


164 posted on 02/27/2006 6:14:32 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: Sam the Sham

The President isn't responsible for all these half cocked BS fabricated crises the the MSM throws at him every week.


165 posted on 02/27/2006 6:14:56 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: mrsmith

More people are self-identifying as Democrats and Independents, and less as Republicans.

Even then, the poll clearly shows that he has almost 60% of Republicans against him on the ports issue. And almost 70% of everybody.

Only Frereper hallucination can interpret that as something good.


166 posted on 02/27/2006 6:15:20 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: jveritas

there will be no attack on iran. iraq is on the verge of civil war now - attack iran preemptively, iraq explodes, gas goes to $6 a gallon, and we need 500K troops in the region to control it.


167 posted on 02/27/2006 6:15:59 PM PST by oceanview
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To: diverteach
"Just keep thinking about what the alternative coulda been."

Is there any wonder why there is such a void in leadership?

168 posted on 02/27/2006 6:16:07 PM PST by the_rightside (Union Corruption : http://www.nlpc.org/artindx.asp)
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To: durasell

Wisdom from durasell!

I hear its coooold in the concrete jungle! Stay warm!


169 posted on 02/27/2006 6:16:12 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: jveritas; HitmanLV; pissant; CWOJackson
By the way I think HitmanLV is scared to death that the President uses his power to launch attack on Iran because he knows that this will bury the democrats and guarantee a Republican victory in this fall elections.

If you think the American people haven't had a bellyful of Mideast military adventures by this time I question your connection with objective reality.

170 posted on 02/27/2006 6:16:12 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: COEXERJ145

"And many right here on FR"

I'm beginning to think the IQ and educational standing is pretty low (i.e. the President is NOT selling Ports to the UAE - there I said it.)


171 posted on 02/27/2006 6:16:28 PM PST by Sunnyflorida ((Elections Matter)
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To: HitmanLV
You keep using the same buzz word "he does not have the stroke" and this is like a talking point by the DNC.

If you think that the DPW can rise such hysteria and emotions that your side and the democrats can take advantage of politically then wait what the White House and our side can do to raise the huge support and emotions regarding nuclear Iran. HitmanLV do not underestimate President Bush because everyone who went against him ended up in political graves.

172 posted on 02/27/2006 6:16:45 PM PST by jveritas (Hate can never win elections.)
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To: HitmanLV

POLLS

173 posted on 02/27/2006 6:17:44 PM PST by woofie
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To: oceanview

Iran attacks Israel and gas will go a lot higher than 6$


174 posted on 02/27/2006 6:18:18 PM PST by skateman (Bush good, demonrats bad.)
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To: Sam the Sham

And if Iran starts brandishing nukes, I'm sure you won't question why we did not strike sooner. But I, for one, would like to leave Assad and the Iranian Mullahs on the ash heap of history.


175 posted on 02/27/2006 6:18:38 PM PST by pissant
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To: HitmanLV

It's a bit chilly.


I'm sensing that many republicans up for re-election will be seeking to distance themselves from the administration.


176 posted on 02/27/2006 6:18:44 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: jveritas

The president does not have the personal credibility to lead the USA into another military adventure in the Mid East (right now).

He doesn't have 'the stroke.'

If you can't recognize this, there's nothing I can do for you (though a handful of other Freepers with clarity are trying).


177 posted on 02/27/2006 6:18:54 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: Sam the Sham
"If you think the American people haven't had a bellyful of Mideast military adventures by this time I question your connection with objective reality."

Most American's aren't quite ready to surrender. They're made of sterner stuff. Granted, I know there are still plenty with an overdose of French blood in their veins.

178 posted on 02/27/2006 6:19:37 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: woofie
Is that Pope JP2 about to kiss Michael Medved in need of a mustache trim? :-)
179 posted on 02/27/2006 6:19:51 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: HitmanLV
This PORT story may have legs and it may destroy the GOP. The people get the leadership they deserve. IMHO they do NOT deserve the leadership they have had over the past 5 years.

NO subsequent attacks on our home soil mean NOTHING to the pisant whiners who monopolize Dim Party, the media and now it seems the GOP.

The inescapable FACT that FREEDOM has been delivered to 50 million people who never knew the definition of the word means nothing!!!

All I can say is we have become a nation of cradle to grave cry babies and deserve 92-2k, 2k8 & beyond.

180 posted on 02/27/2006 6:19:57 PM PST by PISANO (We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
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