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.
This post is one of THE least politically savvy ones, perhaps THE worst, I have EVER seen posted to FR, since early on in 1997; including on es made by trolls and DUers!
LOL! Hi ya Mike.
Well, winter's winding up and nobody is bombing Iran in the next few weeks, so I don't see anything happening on that front.
What do you think is going on with the lobbying thing? It didn't go away, it's just incubating...
By the way, did you ever get to Dubai?
You forgot trotting out old Valerie Plame, yet again. LOL
I remember Watergate a whole lot better than you do.
What turned opinion against Nixon was the Enemies List. It showed the extent to which in the Nixon White House ruthlessness was seen as a virtue. And that said something about the dark side of Nixon's character.
umm... yes?
It went away when Harry Reid was implicated as heavily as any Republican, and when Reid and Dorgan were named as targets by the Justice Department.
The Abramoff "scandal" is done.
A CBS News poll isn't worth the toilet paper it's printed on.
Could you give us a brief description of how things are standing now in Iraq?
You are making no rational sense whatsoever.
"There is almost no doubt in my mind that this poll is fairly accurate."
How on earth can you think that? Did you see post #23? Besides that....it's CBS.
That's populist rhetoric, look for a lot of it come the fall. The brave outsider who knows how to get things done. The fighter who isn't afraid of a fight.
So, See BS is gleefully reporting that their incessent negative coverage of the President, along with their 30 Minutes Hate every evening, is finally producing results.
Congrats, See BS, there's no way he'll be re-elected now.
Me, me, me..........I live in one of those dreaded BLUE STATES and I support the president and the port deal! :-)
Coming from you that's the most reassuring thing I've heard in a long time.
If action starts up in the summer, then oil prices will be astronomical all winter. Fools like jveritas think that this is toy soldiers. It isn't. It means that if there is military action against Iran oil prices are going to skyrocket and in the winter people will freeze to death.
Yes. I agree about that.
It went away when Harry Reid was implicated as heavily as any Republican, and when Reid and Dorgan were named as targets by the Justice Department.
The Abramoff "scandal" is done.
Look, I could be wrong. I've been wrong before, but my take on it is that the thing hasn't even started...
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