Posted on 02/06/2007 8:34:24 AM PST by jamese777
New Gallup Poll finds George W. Bush with a 32% approval rating. That is down slightly from his readings in January, and is within one point of the low rating of his entire administration. More Americans disapprove than approve of his handling of seven different issues tested in the poll; he is rated most positively on terrorism and the economy. Bush's approval ratings on foreign affairs, the situation in Iraq, and immigration are the lowest of his administration.
In three January polls, an average of 36% of Americans approved of Bush's performance as president. The Feb. 1-4 poll, the first Gallup Poll conducted after his State of the Union address, now finds 32% of Americans approving of Bush and 65% disapproving. The new approval rating nearly matches the low for his administration, 31% in May 2006, and the 65% disapproval rating ties his highest negative rating, from that same May poll.
Bush has not had an approval rating above 40% since last September, and has not been above 50% in any Gallup Poll in nearly two full years (March 2005).
Republicans are still largely supportive of Bush -- 78% approve of him in the latest poll. But fewer than one in four independents (23%) and 1 in 10 Democrats (7%) approve. Bush's approval rating among Democrats has been below 10% in every Gallup Poll since mid-October 2006. By comparison, Gallup never recorded a sub-10% approval rating for Bill Clinton among Republicans. His lowest support among the opposition party's supporters was 13% during the late summer and fall of 1994.
In addition to measuring his overall job approval rating, the poll also asked the public to assess Bush's performance on seven specific issues. The ratings range from a high of 46% approval on terrorism to a low of 25% on immigration.
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I wonder if this will hurt his reelection chances? /s
The liberal media spins this as support for liberal policies, when it's really dissatisfaction that Bush is not the conservative we voted for.
And next, the poll on the public approval rating for Congress...
(sound of crickets chirping)
I would venture to say the Independent vote is more significant that either the Dim or Repub votes.
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Bush's Fault!!!!
The single biggest failure of the Bush administration is the war on public relations.
The statement allegedly made by one of his top appointments that he hopes Mexico and US will blend together or something like it (I heard it second hand) won't help him.
Bush just announced a bunch of cuts in his new budget. I definitely approve of that.
Some of those cuts hurt me personally, but they are good for the country.
That's six points higher than Truman's popularity in November, 1951. I guess we shouldn't have helped South Korea, either.
The reason for the low poll numbers has more to do with disaffected conservative voters who are unhappy with Bush's support of amnesty than unappiness with the war in Iraq.
The statement allegedly made by one of his top appointments that he hopes Mexico and US will blend together or something like it (I heard it second hand) won't help him.
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Those of us who opened our ears and our minds, knew this to be the case long ago, when he started running interference for, and protecting, illegals and the open border. The clincher was when he suppressed the Border Patrol information about increase illegal flow after his speech about giving them amnesty -- his official memo to the Border Patrol to keep quiet about the data, was posted here on FR.
Our southern border remains open because of Bush, along with his accomplices in the NAU. Period. Washington as a whole, is guilty of the entire scenario dating well back, but Bush has taken first prize given our post-9/11 war on terror scenario. It is sickening.
And next, the poll on the public approval rating for Congress...
(sound of crickets chirping)
You can find a compendium of the January Poll ratings for Congress at the following website:
http://www.pollingreport.com/CongJob1.htm
More and more Americans have no understanding of what is going on around them today. They are plugged into American Idol or Dancing with the Stars.
Well, he still gets the Rock Star treatment on Wall Street.
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