Posted on 07/08/2006 12:25:51 PM PDT by slowhand520
July 8, 2006
Forty-three percent (43%) of Americans Approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.
The Job Approval readings have been a bit volatile in recent days. This probably reflects the holiday influence more than changing perceptions of the President. Rasmussen Reports did not poll during the first four days of July and today’s results are the first based entirely on interviews conducted following the holiday.
Daily updates on this page are based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. Premium Members also receive daily updates on a seven-day rolling average which eliminates much of the day-to-day statistical noise. The seven-day average continues to show the President’s Job Approval at 42%. That’s little changed over the past two weeks.
Just imagine what the President's poll numbers would be if he changed his position on the immigration issue and closed the borders!
Looks like statistical noise.
Or they stopped polling people who refer to bin laden as binnie
I don't see the LA Times, the NY Times, and all the major TV outlets reporting a 5 point rise on the news, so this must not be true.
From this survey only one percent has no opinion. I am skeptical.
Does it really matter?
I think it's the gasoline prices. If gas were $2 instead of $3 the approval numbers would be in the low to mid-fifties. I'm not being flippant about this. It may be a sad commentary on American voters instead. The high gasoline prices in 1979 and 1980 did more to damage to Jimmy Carter than his bungling of the Iran hostage crisis.
I still think W is going to have a hard time getting re-elected.
Yes, I agree that the low poll numbers are all about gas prices.
Still, when a story comes out that makes us think about what the terrorists might have done by now, but for W, his numbers go up.
But President Carter had engineered an economic downturn that defied the Phillips Curve in its total morbidity-- the opposite of what President Bush has done.
I don't think it's the high gas prices at all--- that's simply the one piece of economic bad news the press has taken and run with, but if it was that it'd be something else. The press hated not being able to attack President Bush as much as they wanted to after 9/11 and now that they're able, they're letting loose with everything they have.
btw great nickname! We could use a Hamilcar right now!
President Bush's numbers might be higher if news such as this was on the front pages of print media:
Unexpected tax revenue to shrink U.S. budget deficit
By MarketWatch
Last Update: 3:35 PM ET Jul 8, 2006
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- An unexpected spike in revenue from corporate taxes, individual stock market profits and executive bonuses is curbing the projected budget deficit this year, according to a media report.
The White House on Tuesday is expected to say that tax receipts are about $250 billion higher than they were a year ago, rising twice as fast as the administration forecast, the New York Times reported Saturday.
As a result, the budget deficit will be about $100 billion less than the White House predicted six months ago, the paper said.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7BD431CEFF-CBE7-45D1-B7BC-0EBAEDEC17B7%7D
at this rate, Bush will have a 93% approval in 10 more days!
It's the Iraq War, it colors everyone's perceptions of the administration's performance.
Where we are right now in Iraq is not where most Americans thought we would be three years into the thing.
BTW, this poll tends to overstate the President's support, IMHO.
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