UPDATED - Zogby Newswire Bush job performance drops 7 points to 62%

Zogby.com ^ | 7-16-02 | James Zogby

[Oldeconomybuyer]

UPDATED
Breaking News - Zogby Newswire
Bush job performance
drops 7 points to 62%;
One in three are worse off
today than one year ago;
Nearly one in three worse off
than two years ago;
Majority less likely to
invest because of scandals

President George W. Bush’s overall job performance rating has taken a seven percentage point drop in July to 62%, latest Zogby America results reveal.

The poll, conducted July 12-15 of 1,109 likely voters nationwide shows voters now giving Bush a 62% positive, 38% negative job performance rating, a new low mark since the September 11th terrorist attacks. In June, Bush received a 69% positive, 28% negative job performance rating, and a 70% positive, 30% negative, rating in May.

In February, voters gave Bush a 74% positive, 25% negative rating. The week before the attacks, voters gave Bush a 50% positive, 49% negative job performance rating.

The poll has a margin of sampling error of +/- 3.1%.

Results also show that nearly one in three Americans (32%) say they are worse off financially today than they were one year ago, compared to 45% who say they are financially better off now than one year ago. Another 22% say their finances are the same as a year ago. Respondents worse off today than one year ago include Democrats (38%), Independents (30%) and Republicans (27%).

Nearly just as many Americans (31%) say they are financially worse off today than two years ago, compared to 51% who are better off and 17% who are the same financially. Respondents worse off today than two years ago include Democrats (35%), Independents (33%) and Republicans (26%).

Investor insecurity

Results show the recent stock market scandals involving several major corporations make a majority of Americans (51%) less likely now to invest in the stock market. In comparison, 43% say the scandals make no difference in their likelihood now to invest in the stock market. Majorities not likely now to invest in the stock market include Americans earning $35,000-50,000 a year (58%), 55-69 year-olds (65%) and Moderates (53%).

Results also show half of Americans who own 401k plans (50%) and half (50%) who do not own 401k plans but invest in the stock market are now less likely to invest because of the scandals.

Pollster John Zogby: “Two out of three likely voters tell us that they have an IRA or a 401k. One look at their quarterly report and there goes confidence in the economy and the government. We are looking at a very close election with the Congressional Generic still tied at 34%, but this issue is THE issue.”

[Recovering_Democrat]

ZOGBY'S
SPECIAL
SAUCE!

[LenS]

Gee, is it the Monday, November 1, 2004 already? It isn't? Well then, this is another Zogby Arab-propaganda poll.

[Mr. Bird]

Unreal. If it's significant (headline worthy) that one in three are worse off, is it not MORE so that two of three are either better off (45%) or the same (22%)? Really, with all that's happened, only one in three are worse off? That ain't too shabby.

I'm better off, but no one can take the credit except my wife and I....and I suppose my employer.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

I recieved an e-mail from Zogby yesteday with this news. It is so biased,..and so obvious as a long term member of his polls and newsletters. We NEVER recieved ANYTHING like this (negative spin) about Clinton. Not ever!!

Zogby is an admitted democrap and I was so sickened by his obvious panic and bias, that I immediately cancelled my membership and was removed from his e-mail list. He was always walking a thin line, but he proved his motives yesterday. So enough....

[LenS]

You forgot to give credit to Bill Clinton. He'll be very disappointed in you for not praising him for your situation. But since he cares for you, he'll probably forgive you.

*g*

[meandog]

History Lesson (2002 Almanac): George Herbert Walker Bush AKA George I "A nation grateful at feeling the end of the "Vietnam syndrome" gave the president an overall rating of 89 percent in a Gallup poll in March after the end of the Gulf War. The approval rate fell as the year went on, but a solid majority continued to approve the president's performance, although with growing concern about the faltering economy and other domestic proplems. And there were nagging doubts about the Persian Gulf war, its motives and objectives especially since Saddam Hussein remained in power ...In the 1992 presidential election, Bush was defeated by Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas...

...seems the apple doesn't fall that far from the tree, or IOW "Read My Lips, No 2nd Term!"

[wjcsux]

GHWB sold out to the RATS. If GWB continues down the path he is on, he will suffer the same fate as his father. Suck up to the RATS, you get burned big time!

[NELSON111]

GWB is no GHWB...but...everytime the GOP decides to suck up to the dims...rather than take the fight to them...they lose. What is frustrating to me is why the guys running the show don't get it. Reagan and 1994 are classic examples. You cannot allow the DNC to constantly demogog you without rebuttal. And again...we find ourselves sitting on our hands with a 70% approval rating and allow the dims to chip away at it with lie after lie.

Are we ever going to learn?

[Gaston]

I have seen the enemy and he is us.......

Biography
Dr. James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community. Since 1985, Dr. Zogby and AAI have led Arab American efforts to secure political empowerment in the U.S. Through voter registration, education and mobilization, AAI has moved Arab Americans into the political mainstream.

For the past two decades, Dr. Zogby has been involved in a full range of Arab American issues. A co-founder and chairman of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign in the late 1970s, he later co-founded and served as the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. In 1982, he co-founded Save Lebanon, Inc., a private non-profit, humanitarian and non-sectarian relief organization which funds health care for Palestinian and Lebanese victims of war, and other social welfare projects in Lebanon. In 1985, Zogby founded AAI.

In 1993, following the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord in Washington, he was asked by Vice President Al Gore to lead Builders for Peace, a private sector committee to promote U.S. business investment in the West Bank and Gaza. In his capacity as co-president of Builders, Zogby frequently traveled to the Middle East with delegations led by Vice President Gore and late Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. In 1994, with former U.S. Congressman Mel Levine, his colleague as co-president of Builders, Zogby led a U.S. delegation to the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian agreement in Cairo. Zogby also chaired a forum on the Palestinian economy at the Casablanca Economic Summit in 1994. After 1994, through Builders, Zogby worked with a number of US agencies to promote and support Palestinian economic development, including AID, OPIC, USTDA, and the Departments of State and Commerce.





He is a remarkable voice for calm and clarity. - Bill Clinton

Dr. Zogby has also been personally active in U.S. politics for many years. Most recently, in 1995 Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Don Fowler appointed Zogby as co-convener of the National Democratic Ethnic Coordinating Committee (NDECC), an umbrella organization of Democratic Party leaders of European and Mediterranean descent. On September 24, 1999, the NDECC elected Dr. James Zogby as its representative to the DNC's Executive Committee.

A lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues, U.S.-Arab relations, and the history of the Arab American community, Dr. Zogby appears frequently on television and radio. He has appeared as a regular guest on all the major network news programs. After hosting the popular "A Capital View" on the Arab Network of America for several years, he now hosts "Viewpoint with James Zogby" on Abu Dhabi Television, which can be seen Friday afternoons from 2:00-3:00pm EST. Since 1992, Dr. Zogby has also written a weekly column on U.S. politics for the major newspapers of the Arab world. The column, Washington Watch, currently is published in 14 Arab countries.

Dr. Zogby has testified before U.S. House and Senate committees, has been guest speaker on a number of occasions in the Secretary's Open Forum at the U.S. Department of State, and has addressed the United Nations and other international forums. He recently received a Distinguished Public Service Award from the U.S. Department of State "in recognition of outstanding contributions to national and international affairs."

Dr. Zogby is also active professionally beyond his involvement with the Arab American community. He is a board member of the human rights organization Middle East Watch and currently serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In January 2001, he was selected by the President to be a member of the Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund and serves on its Board of Directors. Additionally, he recently attained a position with polling firm Zogby International as Senior Analyst.

In 1975, Dr. Zogby received his doctorate from Temple University's Department of Religion, where he studied under the Islamic scholar, Dr. Ismail al-Faruqi. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University in 1976, and on several occasions was awarded grants for research and writing by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Defense Education Act and the Mellon Foundation. Dr. Zogby received a Bachelor of Arts from Le Moyne College. In 1995, Le Moyne awarded Zogby an honorary doctoral of laws degree and in 1997, named him the college's outstanding alumnus.

[hgro]

Zogby is just another arab supporting the cause of Islam.
No one that follows this guy can put much into polls that can be made to favor his viewpoint.

[cksharks]

Whats that late 50's song, Dream Dream Dream.

[STD]

Zogby has lost any credibility with the American people! His sycophantic ARAB bias is open for all to see!

[DrDeb]

I provided this explanation last evening on a very similar thread:

REMEMBER: Zogby uses an excellent/good and fair/poor schema rather than an approve/disapprove schema. Typically, 50% of those who would rate the President 'fair' would also APPROVE of his performance. For this reason, a 62% in Zogby's poll would be equivalent to a 72-75% approval rating in the Gallup poll!!

Additionally, I predicted on another thread that this media/RAT created "scandal" would probably follow the same trajectory as the "He Knew" scandal. Initially, the President's ratings fell between 5%-7%; however, after the "scandal" lost its potency (i.e., the media got bored and moved onto something else), the President's ratings recovered to pre-scandal levels. REMEMBER USAToday's headlines that the President's Gallup numbers had dropped from 77% to 70% -- three weeks later they were back to 76%. REMEMBER also that we are in the throws of election season -- Democrats will continue to desert the President in deference to their own party. This is to be expected and will affect the President's overall poll numbers!

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The recent Ipsos-Reid/Cook poll, taken during the SAME timeframe as Zogby's poll, determined that the President has a 70% approval rating based on an VERY thorough 7 point approval/disapproval scale. NOTE: Since January, the President has only lost 7 percentage points according to this scale!!!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Doesn't the Zogster push poll ? I would love to see the text of the questions that were asked.

[caltrop]

Unfortunately, GWB is another GHWB. Like his father, he's a Rockefeller Republican (defined as believing government is the solution, not the problem) who doesn't know how to lead and believes anything he tries to do might jeopardize his approval rating. GWB and GHWB couldn't be more unlike Reagan. Small wonder those of us who were most supportive of Reagan (before it became fashionable) still consider his selection of GHWB as VP his biggest mistake.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"..seems the apple doesn't fall that far from the tree, or IOW "Read My Lips, No 2nd Term!"

seems McCain can't get over losing. You were a McCainiac, right? Funny how rare they are on FR today!

[sinkspur]

Small wonder those of us who were most supportive of Reagan (before it became fashionable) still consider his selection of GHWB as VP his biggest mistake.

What in hell are you talking about?

Reagan would never have gotten elected, twice, if it were not "fashionable" to support him.

Unlike Reagan, Bush has not and will not raise taxes. And Ronald Reagan, like both Bushes, never cut a dime from government.

[jwalsh07]

seems McCain can't get over losing. You were a McCainiac, right?

Use the present tense, you won't be wrong.

[TLBSHOW]

thank you for that link!