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.
From freeper frankjr regaring the lastest CBS fake (as usual) poll:
This poll is not even close to being reasonable in the sample selection:
UNWEIGHTED Total Respondents 1018
Total Republicans 272 27%
Total Democrats 409 40%
Total Independents 337 33%
WEIGHTED
Total Respondents 1018
Total Republicans 289 28%
Total Democrats 381 37%
Total Independents 348 34%
In the Nov. 2004 election, the split was even between Dems and Repubs. This poll gives the Dems a 32% advantage (based on 28% Repub and 37% Dem of Total Pop).
As long as the Dems keep believing these faulty polls they will continue to be disappointed on election day.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_bush_022706.pdf
20 posted on 02/27/2006 10:26:26 PM EST by jveritas (Hate can never win elections.)
No arument from me.
The point was that unless his results are clearly and unambiguously positive, historians won't be kind to him and his presidency.
PRESIDENT BUSH IS NOT EVER GOING TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT EVER AGAIN!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...Carter: gas lines, "malaise", fireside chats in a sweater, aiding the ouster of the Shah and helping the fanatic mullahs to rake over Iran, 400 odd days of Americans held prisoner, botched/failed rescue raid, gigantic interest rates, falling markets, rising unemployment, recession...............................
Gee, what similarities there are between Carter and President Bush.......................NOT!
I can't see this deal going through. If the overwhelming majority of the American people are against, and if it still goes through, there's something more here going on they we are privy too.
LOL............true. :-)
OH NO! Now W will never get re-elected!
Pray tell, what are you seeing?
bttt
By then you folks will be pushing some other fabricated crisis.
I never said he didn't care about his credibility. He simply doesn't rely on polls as a barometer of that. I won't either.
Other than the lousy PR that plagues this WH, I see nothing that he's done to damage his credibility regarding the ports deal. And I hear no concerns about that in the people I talk politics to.
" if it still goes through, there's something more here going on they we are privy too.'
Yeah, the FACT that we are NOT SELLING our ports to the ENEMY. Get privy to that!
What gets me is there isn't any pretense anymore. These people are blatant supporters of the Democrat party.
I listen to them ocassionally when I drive as it is about the only station I can get clearly.
You bushbots have been repeating that stupidness all night. I guess to inferior minds it sounds funny.
There are a lot of Republicans for whom Bush's coattails will be an anchor that will sink them this November. With the Dubai ports deal I think whatever chance Santorum had evaporated.
The Democrats could run Mickey Mouse for president and the MSM would make a strong case for him.
Historians won't be kind to him and his presidency anyway – since most historians are liberals.
Bushbot: anyone who can't think of six new reasons to hate President Bush by noon each day.
Real Conservative: someone who can.
True Conservative: someone who can AND was one of the eight people who bought the collected works of pat buchanan
That's not what you're Mom said.
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Whoops, sorry. Didn't mean to sink to your level. :P
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