NBC-WSJ Poll: Bush support drops ( W at 54% )

msnbc. ^ | 01/22/2002 | By Michael E. Ross

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President Bush’s popularity ratings — once among the highest of any president in the past 60 years — are eroding across the board, according to a new NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll. Bush is losing ground in several key areas, including foreign policy, the economy and his handling of the war on terrorism. And as the escalation of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf continues, the poll finds a growing number of Americans oppose military action to remove Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power.

The president’s overall approval rating slipped to 54 percent, down from December’s 62 percent and a dramatic decline from his January 2002 rating of 82 percent — the highest approval rating of any U.S. president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose approval rating reached 84 percent after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

The margin of error in the poll, by Democratic pollster Peter Hart and Republican pollster Bob Teeter, is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

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The poll found that 37 percent favored the president’s approach, while 42 percent sided with the Democrats.
Yet when asked who they would prefer to handle the economy overall, 48 percent said the president and Republicans and 43 percent said Democrats.

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[Howlin]

66 percents of the participants in the Democratic Caucus in Iowa last weekend said Bush would be reelected, regardless of who they run.

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BC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Robert Teeter (R). Latest: Jan. 19-21, 2003. N=1,025 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.1.
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"In general, do you approve or disapprove of the job George W. Bush is doing as president?"
Approve 54%
Disap-prove 40%
Don't Know 6%
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[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm? FOX is still posting a 63% number for Bush. I'd like to know how the questions were worded.

[KQQL]

@http://pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

[CFC__VRWC]

I'm not surprised by this, unfortunately, as the constant anti-Bush hysteria being pumped out by Hollyweird and the media has reached a level that has eclipsed even Reagan's negative coverage.

[Pokey78]

It's time again for Battle of the Network Polls: where we watch the liberal media elites see who can come out with the lowest poll numbers.

[gop_gene]

Hmmmm? FOX is still posting a 63% number for Bush. I'd like to know how the questions were worded.

Yeah, that makes a huge difference in how the poll numbers turn out--or how one wants them to turn out. Unless there are other numbers coming out soon to verify this, most likely it's probably between the two polls--about 60%, more or less.

I'm sure libs everywhere are rejoicing at this poll, since their quest for any good news has been unfruitful to say the least, but I don't find this worrisome at all. Even if these numbers are accurate, there's lots of time before election day.

[paul544]

This is not really any suprise. Lets face it. The market is in the toilet. It's all Iraq all the time. Oil is sky high. Venezuela is not getting fixed anytime soon. Just a bunch of bad news really. Nothing positive happening. Iraq is costing the market a 1000 points and $10 on oil. We need to crap or get off the pot.

[jdege]

The question is how many people think he's going down the wrong path, and how many people think he's heading in the right direction, but not quickly enough.

[Rome2000]

Actually, its MSNBC's ratings that are tanking.

Something to do with nonstop leftist propaganda and lousy programming.

[weegee]

So the polled "public" thinks that the war on terror isn't going well? We've had a teenager steal a small plane and kamikaze it into a building, 2 snipers shoot people in DC, some anthrax sent through the mail...and? and?

Seems like things could be far worse. Other countries have since been attacked (nightclub bombings, tankers blownup) but things have been quiet compared to some of the terrorism we faced in the Clinton years (and yes, we had a domestic sniper then too but since he was shooting at the CIA headquarters the masses and leftists didn't care).

The Cold War wasn't fought (or won) in a day. Let's just hope that we do a better job eradicating Islamofascism than we did preventing the socialists from controlling the agenda in this country.

[willgetsome]

Who cares about poll numbers now...let's do what we have to do because it is "right" and necessary.

[ARCADIA]

I am with you. Time is money and we are all waiting for the Bush to hit the go button. They seen to be vacilating on the economy (not my job), on Iraq (do we wait for the UN or ignore them), on Venezuela (not a word), on N. Korea (Do we negotiate,or not), on Brasil (not a word on their swing to the left), on homeland defense (are we going to do anything to seal our borders?), On the airline industry (it's dying), trade inbalance, and who knows what else.

Most of this stuff will work itself out within weeks, and the Presidents numbers will be climbing soon enough. But, we do seem to have an extrodinary number of lose ends right now.

[LdSentinal]

The liberal media onslaught on Bush has been incessant since the election results came rolling in on November 5, 2002. Fox News, NY Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, and The Weekly Standard are nothing compared to the rest of the liberal media.

Anyway, some news that might cheer you folks up. State of the Union Address is just five days away.

And from the same poll:

Bush - 51%
Gephardt - 32%
Not Sure - 8%

Bush - 50%
Lieberman - 34%
Not Sure - 8%

Bush - 48%
Kerry - 31%
Not Sure - 14%

BTW, these numbers came from adults -- not registered voters or likely voters.

[ambrose]

From 90% steadily down to nothing... like father, like son?

[KQQL]

From 90% steadily down to nothing... like father, like son?

lol..could be....

The slow economy is hurting W...

IF the Economy doesn't pick up by 2004...then anything is possible................