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 Septembers 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.
don't forget the rest of the world. LOL!
Does he not care bec it's his last term?
YAAAAWWWWWNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Increasingly I don't think dubya will turn this around in time, and GOPers in the House and Senate will run away from him on the campaign trail.
But by association it also hurts his brother's chances and Republicans that go along with him on this ports deal.
I have just added your post number to the key words.
Nice work!
Agree...after Katrina, you do have to wonder...why would he go for the Dubai deal? It was a loser from the start and now the Coast Guard is talking and it's not good news.
Wake up Mr President!
went through it once :)
It's nice.....
November is about 9 months away and most Americans have a 30 second attention span. I wouldn't count on it.
What universe/dimensional plane do you live in?
Well stated. I don't have trust in him anymore. The Dubai thing really did it for me.
things appear to have hit a speedbump, but the Sunnis are now buying into the government and the Shiites are holding back, surprisingly enough.
Al-Sistani has asked for peace. He's a BIG piece of the puzzle in Iraq. If we alienated him, our time there would have been much harder than it already was.
I pinged Allegra because she is there now. I'm not. But things aren't NEARLY as bad now as they were when I got there in January of 2004. No where near.
They are scrapping the underneath of the bottom of the barrel!
No, no, no.
We're doomed, don't you know.
This is the end, beautiful friend.
This is the big one 'Lizabeth.
It's over. It's over.
We'll all be sent to Hillary's reeducation camps.
And it's all Bush's fault.
I think that a lot of Republicans don't trust him anymore, including me.
"CBS News Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low"
But I love him. The poll doesn't matter to me even if it were zero.
I just think about how horrible things were when the Demo-fascists were in power under Clinton, and Bush looks like a gem.
Now why, exactly, should Saudi Arabia cut production ? That means giving up income because the Emir of Dubai's feelings were hurt. Why should they ?
Venezuela and Iran will only cut if other do. They need the money.
You have switched from 'supporting our Arab ally' to giving in to blackmail.
I really don't think that your not trusting him is keeping him up at night.
Troll.
As ever you have it completely backwards.
Would finally executing Saddam make a lot of the insurgency go away?
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