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.
And who believes anything that CBS nesw Says?
RamS
Anyone who lives north of Atlanta lives somewhere where it does or can get cold in the winter. I see you are starting to get bushbot frantic. Tell me how great the gas lines were for Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Tell me how great they will be for George Bush and the GOP. But your memory of the 70's is kinda bad.
Gallup will release their poll tomorrow, expect more bad news...
Maybe the smartest one Slick Willie ever slept with, but that ain't saying much. ;o)
Yes, we shall and you will be wrong; yet again.
Where did you get that? Rasmussen's latest poll (and the one usually most favorable to the president) has him at 43% approval among adults today (and a husky 55% disapproval).
A prime example of making up the news to push your agenda. We allready know what see BS's agenda is!
The UAE is not our enemy. We have bases there.
Our ports are out of control. Ever been to Miami? Or Port Everglades?
Thanks for the link. I think only three pollsters got the election right. The others were pushing an agenda to get sKerry elected.
I love the guy, but his stance on border security, immigration and now this port deal have killed his popularity. I happen to disagree with him on these issues as well.
We'll see.
No, not really. Perhaps if, over time, a credibly run poll with verifiable and equitable sampling, rational internals produced THE SAME results, I'd take some mild interest.
But I'd look for trends over time, not just one shot wonders.
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And certainly not CBS. Or CNNABCNBSMSNBSPBSTIMENEWSWEEKNYSLIMESWASHCOMPOST....get my drift?
But more to the point what does it really matter??? The President isn't running for office. It's still a long time until November, and I predict this won't be an issue by then, although the RATS will have manufactured another 30 pseudo-scandals between now and then, trying to get something that would stick to the President.
Bush doesn't give a rat's patoot about polls. Neither do I and neither should you.
As I said among adults it is around 45%, Rasmussen adults poll is 43%, very close to what I said earlier. Add 5% when it comes to likely voters so he is around 50% in this most important group.
We're already seeing. I know how frustrating this must be for you. Maybe the next crisis you folks fabricate will do a little better.
I thought they just called all Democrats in NYC. These people are useless as a news organization. Just another propaganda arm of the Democrat organization.
The MidEast was three times worst before GWB came into office and put the fear of God into those lame Islamofascists.
It just didn't get microscopic scrutiny like it does now where every nutjob with a hand grenade gets a front page story in all USA papers.
With Afghanistan in better hands, and with Iraq in better control than before, and with Libya, Jordan, Kuwait, moderating, GWB is leaving the MidEast heading in the right direction (especially compared to the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" Clintoon administration)
That said, GWB should still back off this UAE/Dubai ports deal. It is a loser for Bush, for the country, and it is especially a loser for the Republican Party.
Like I've posted before, if these new port owners (the UAE govt.) are REALLY that unattatched to port security, then we should simply form an American shell company/board of directors to buy these six port slots.
If it is that simple, why do we need UAE "expertise"??
They have a lot of willing volunteers around here to assist them.
Read my post 32 for why he (and we) should care about his popularity, and credibility as a leader.
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