Posted on 05/12/2006 11:52:13 AM PDT by Icelander
The poll, conducted by the Wall Street Journal, is the latest to indicate a slump in public support for the US leader as his Republican party heads into the campaign for mid-term elections in November.
In the poll, released in the newspaper's online edition, Bush has lost six percentage points in a month.
Iraq remains the main concern. Twenty-eight percent of Americans say it is one of the two most important topics, up from 23 percent in April, followed by IMMIGRATION (16 percent) and the price of petrol (gasoline) (14 percent).
Only 24 percent of the 1,003 people asked between May 3-8 said they believed the United States was "heading in the right direction". According to the Journal, 69 percent said "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track".
Bush is closing in on the unpopularity level of President Richard Nixon (24 percent) at the moment of his resignation in 1974 over the Watergate scandal.
"Bush is closing in on the unpopularity level of President Richard Nixon (24 percent)"
Yea, but what polls you don't read about are the approval #'s for Congress. They are lower than Bush's and so is Hillary's approval #'s. As someone wrote, "BFD".
Keep drinking your cool-aid Bushbot. Bush's poll numbers are not based on a desire to demolish his adminstration. He's doing that all by himself.
I ignore all these polls . I stand by our President .
I'm certain he thinks conservatives should take another one in the chops for the sake of the party - a mexican standoff, so to speak.
We'll see who blinks first, but I'm with you, I dearly hope the president comes around and realizes it is he that needs to rally the base.
Just conducted a poll in my office (the same that the Lame Stream Media keep conducting every thirty seconds in their newsrooms) and I have the President holding steady at 75%.
Guess we're alright for now.
It looks like Conyers, Rangel, Kerry and so forth will be in charge of all the committees in Congress in a few months.
I think the ball is in the President's and Congress' court.
-President's policy on immigration is too weak.
-Agree with the President's policy on immigration.
-President's policy on immigration is too harsh.
-President's policy on war in the Middle East is too weak.
-Agree with the President's policy on war in the Middle East.
-President's policy on war in the Middle East is too harsh.
etc.
Weight these responses as (+1) for too weak, (0) for agree, and (-1) for too harsh and sum them up. 0 is "middle of the road" (not necessarily the place to be but a place to gauge whether the President is striking a balance between conflicting positions on his policies).
If conservatives and liberals "disagree" on the President's policy, the media is being dishonest to portray the "disagreement" as any sort of unity between the conservatives and liberals on a policy.
I'd also like to see the media's approval numbers.
Hell, even the Simpsons aren't as popular as they once were.
"who's sole motivation in life seems to be to demolish this administration, and that goes for my fellow freepers."
I've posted the at-least-10 points-higher Rasmussen poll results on numerous threads and they have been ignored on every thread but one where someone commented that those numbers are nothing to be proud of either. It's cool to hate Bush. The liberals got what they wanted.
"I dearly hope the president comes around and realizes it is he that needs to rally the base."
Blank the base. Bush's base is turning into a bunch of whiners, who have an unrealisitc list of "we wants." Wasting time on crap like Harriet Myers. His base has zero loyalty to the cause and I pray you get Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry all wrapped into one, then when they are in control and start speaking their REAL truths maybe then Bush's base will rally.
According to a Gallup poll, Harry Truman's popularity was at 23 percent in December, 1951.
If Bush gets rid of the illegals...poll numbers jump to 80%! LOL
LOL!
At least 80, I think it would be higher. He has to do something. That's why he's having the speech Monday. Obviously he's been looking at his numbers.
Just know that Roy Moore is making attacking the President part of his campaign for Governor.
On what issue?
All he needs to say Monday is that he is ordering 50,000 national guard troops to the border to patrol and start the assembly of a 1,000 mile wall. His poll numbers would go from 29/34% to 49/55% overnight. Bush will never see 60% ever again...too many people have it out for him and his other agendas. But he could get a tremendous spike and I think the way PR is gonna be handled in the WH with Snow now...the new ballgame begins on Monday.
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