Posted on 09/14/2006 9:00:46 AM PDT by jmc1969
Forty-seven percent (47%) of American adults approve of the way that President Bush is performing his job. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove. Those are by far the best numbers for the President since mid-February.
The spike is fueled largely by a resurgence of support among the Presidents base. Eighty-five percent (85%) of Republicans now offer their approval. At its low point earlier in the year, just 66% of the GOP faithful approved of his job performance.
In January and much of February, the Presidents Job Approval ratings were in the mid-40s. Then, they fell sharply and have hovered around 40% ever since. Fifty percent (50%) of men and 44% of women now say they somewhat or strongly approve of the Presidents performance. Overall, 24% of Americans Strongly Approve and 38% Strongly Disapprove.
Since this is just the third day of a bounce, it remains to be seen whether this reflects lasting change or is nothing more than statistical noise. The Rasmussen Reports daily updates are based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. Most of the interviews for todays update were completed before President Bushs address to the nation two nights ago. Fridays results will be the first based entirely upon interviews conducted after the speech and after the 9/11 anniversary.
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Back down to 41% today. They must have decided the President was getting rated too high and increased the number of RATS in the sample.
Ras polled 4.3% more rats...*At Rasmussen Reports, we adjust our party identification weighting targets each month based upon actual survey results from the previous 90 days. For the month of September, our partisan weighting targets are 37.0% Democrat, 32.7% Republican, and 30.2% unaffiliated. This represents a slight increase in the number of Democrats and unaffiliateds. The impact on the Presidents Job Approval rating is less than a percentage point compared to data from the prior three months. See our monthly update on Partisan Trends.*
I know that most Americans didn't follow it closely, but the sudden "unexplained absence" of the background negativity is significant.
If the TV press was made up of honorable people, they would spend a full week explaining their own stupidity amd collusion with the DNC dingbats (which would still only amount to 10% of the time devoted to unethical Bush-bashing with this motherless club).
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