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.
It might be time to wake up and stop blaming the media for all of Bush's unpopularity.
I was sketching the consequences of a war with Iran.
"The base blew up after Schiavo...."--and have forgotten about it.
" Miers finished it, and it's a done deal."--Forgotten also, save for it's joke utility.
It's low at 43% but not CBS FAKE at 34%.
Maybe they were using a mirror to get the opposite numbers.
In regards to going to war with Iran, 34% approval rating in a biased poll does not mean a thing. The President is the Commander in Chief and when we go to AIR WAR against nuclear Iran who can give its nuclear weapons to terrorists, change the whole equation in the Middle East, threaten to destroy Israel, then the majority of Americans will rally behind the President.
Conservatives complaining about the MSM are just like DU-ers screaming 'the Diebold machines are fixed !'.
Excuses. It is the responsibility of the political leader to have a message. It is his responsibility to communicate and not spring ugly surprises on the public. It is his responsibility to have well thought out policies that can be defended in simple language.
February Polls are key.
Just ask GALLUP.
GALLUP POLL: February 16-17, 2004
KERRY 55% - BUSH 43%
http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2004-02-18-poll.htm
We'll see. :-)
No problem. When your whole campaign is built on a lie it's doomed. The truth wins out.
Yes :)
I wouldn't believe CBS if they told me the sun came up in the east.
Since many or most polls are media funded, I pay little to no attention to any of them. They are produced to obtain a certain result. Hence they are without credibility and mostly not worth the time pondering.
When I hear ordinary everyday Americans complaining about the President in terms of national security, I'll start thinking he's got a problems. So far, that quite simply has not been my experience. Even now, quite the contrary and BTW I'm in fly over country. Coastline and DemocRAT controlled cities haved bitched since day one, hence they don't count.
You always put so much energy into a See BS poll? Have trouble sleeping at night? Indigestion, perhaps? Life's pretty short to spend in misdirection.
I respectfully disagree. The majority of Americans believe Bush is full of ****. You think they are going to rally around a *third* war?
You either ignored or don't care to discuss the fact that the old, poor, and indigent are supplied with heat, by various local government agencies.
Many people, in America, do NOT live where it is cold in the winter.
You have, as yet, NEVER been correct in your prognosticating. I doubt that this time shall prove to be different.
I'm not a "bushbot", but hey, I don't mind being called one..................by the likes of you! LOL
So no poll would ever convince you that the president has a popularity problem?
Absolutely.
The love that the rest of OPEC has for the Emir of Dubai in your opinion is truly heartwarming. Inexplicable in any rational terms, but heartwarming nonetheless. Why should 'this country' or 'that country' forego income over him ? And again, the corrupt elites of Saudi Arabia have a vital security interest in their relationship with Bush. They don't want to make him look bad.
"I've been laid off. We have no heat this winter. I'm going to have to file for bankruptcy. But we bombed Iran so it was worth it."
Seriously ? Is that how you think real world adults think ?
The President popularity among adults is around 45% and around "likely voters" (they are the one who matters in politics) is around 50%.
Well, the MSM also thinks ( and I use that word loosely ) that Hitlery! is the smartest woman who ever lived. LOL
They don't slumber that lightly.
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