Posted on 05/14/2006 6:52:29 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
President Bush's job approval rating has jumped six points in the wake of a media barrage of criticism over his administration's telephone records collection program.
A Harris Interactive poll published in The Wall Street Journal Online on Friday had Bushs approval rating at an all time low - with just 29 percent of Americans saying they liked the way he was handling his job.
The Harris survey polled 1,003 adults on May 5-8 - before USA Today frontpaged their report on the National Security Agency's telephone records collection program.
A Gallup survey released Friday yielded a similar result, with just 31 percent giving Bush a positive job approval rating.
A Newsweek survey released on Sunday, however, found that the president's approval numbers had improved markedly, with 35 percent saying he was doing a good job. Newsweek polled 1,007 adults on May 11 and 12 and asked specifically about the NSA's phone record collection program, which USA Today's first reported on Thursday, May 11.
An ABC/Washington Post poll taken in the immediate aftermath of the USA Today report found overwhelming support for the anti-terror program, with 63 percent of those surveyed saying they supported the records gathering operation. 44 percent said they "strongly" endorsed it, while just 35 percent were opposed to the operation.
65 percent of those surveyed told ABC/Post pollsters that it was more important to investigate potential terrorist threats "even if it intrudes on privacy."
The Newsweek survey, however, turned up a different results, with a slim majority of those surveyed - 53 percent - telling the magazine that the NSAs surveillance program "goes too far in invading peoples privacy."
I liked the wall in the first King Kong movie best. Even the one in the second movie wasn't bad.
But this last movie was plain ridiculous.
shut your hole. What an ignorant statement.
Comparing a poll of "adults" to previous polls of voters doesn't do that.
Really?
Just because a lot of us here on FR aren't blindly following the Republican Party down the sewer on this issue doesn't make us DU'ers or globalists or whatever other adjectives you want to use.
We're stating our opinions on the subject which this site allows us to do, courtesy of Mr. Jim Robinson. If you disagree with the viewpoint, that's ok, but to resort to namecalling because you disagree is DU like.
I am sick and tired of being told to vote Pubby because "...it's better than Nancy Pelosi, et al." I voted Republican last election because I wanted continuity in the administration to finish the war, to make permanent the tax cuts, to reign in federal spending, to enforce our immigration laws. So far two out of four. And my jury is still out on how I'm going to vote, if at all. So call me a traitor to the cause, but at least I'm making up my own mind, not having it made up for me.
The Army NG going to the border is only temporary, President Bush is concerned about upsetting his hermano Vicente and has sent word to him to "assuage his concerns about militarizing the border."
So get off your high horse about this. A lot of new and old FReepers are PISSED about this issue and we are conservatives as well. We just don't dance to the tune of the pied piper thank you very much.
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Always! LOL
im thinking the speech tonight will not help, as Bush will not be announcing the building of a wall.
well placing troops on the border is a start and if you read between the lines of some of the remarks it appears that the NG "may" be constructing fencing...remains to be seen.
but I've been saying for years the NG and other military could be doing their training at the borders.
Not at my house is his rating rising. He spends like a drunken idiot. Big gov't RINO.
Almost every poll was within a point or two of the final results in 2004, so no one was particularly accurate or inaccurate. Perfect accuracy is impossible in polling and only results from luck.
In 2000, however, polls were all over the map.
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