Posted on 10/17/2005 6:30:51 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
Bush's job rating continues to drop
Poll shows president's performance approval at low point
(CNN) -- President Bush's job approval rating continues to plummet, with 39 percent of Americans surveyed in the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll supporting his performance, compared to 58 percent expressing disapproval.
The approval rating was lowest the poll has recorded during Bush's presidency, down from 45 percent in a survey taken September 26-28, and the disapproval rating was up from 50 percent.
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Both Rove and Miers had lower approval ratings than Bush in the telephone survey of 1,012 adults, which has a three percentage- point error margin.
Twenty-two percent of those polled said they had a favorable opinion of Rove and 39 percent had an unfavorable opinion.
Thirty-one percent said they had a favorable opinion of Miers, who is White House counsel. Twenty-six percent said they had an unfavorable opinion of her, 17 percent said they had never heard of her, and 26 percent had no opinion.
Still, 44 percent said they would like to see the Senate confirm Miers, while 36 percent said they would not. By comparison, 59 percent had said they wanted John Roberts confirmed as Supreme Court chief justice.
Clarence Thomas, who faced sexual harassment allegations during his 1991 Senate confirmation hearings for a Supreme Court vacancy, won 53 support in a poll at the time. Only 31 percent said they wanted Robert Bork confirmed in 1987 when President Ronald Reagan unsuccessfully nominated him to the high court.
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It's pretty bad at FR when CNN is being used as a source for "real" information...
We through away the CNN/Gallop polls that said for a fact BUSH was going to lose the election but now they are accurate regarding SCOTUS...go figure.
The Miers haters are grasping for any straw they can find---even those at CNN
I thought this number (39%) has been around for a while?
I hope they don't think this is good news for them.
I'll tell you the antidote for sinking into deep Bush hatred. And this is coming from a sufferer. Spend some time with a couple of liberals. It won't take long. Hell, just have lunch with them. You'll be back on the bus in no time. For me, it was my mother and my sister. One sit down meal with the two of them and I might as well have been Andrew Card.
I wonder how many of these 1,012 adults could even name the current President without a promt.
I wonder if the GOP thinks this is as humorous as you do?
Proof of the pudding will be in 06 when the pubs are likely to lose the House to the dems.
---I wonder how many of these 1,012 adults could even name the current President without a promt.---
If he was any good they would have heard of him, right? :^)
A year out is too long to make any predictions.
A better indicator are the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections, held in two weeks.
The Republican leads in Virgina, and Forrester, the Republican, is tied with John Corzine in liberal New Jersey.
If both Republicans win, that is a good sign that none of this means anything about the 2006 elections.
Events in 2006 will affect 2006.
Why wait till then? Why not man a phone bank and help defeat the GOP candidate in both the NJ and VA races now? Get giddy now - "Yup, that'll teach Bush and those Mier's conservatives...".
Few weeks ago even Steve Forbes said that pubs will likely lose the House in 06.
It is nothing but the old adage "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." The Bush haters have been drooling over the MSM polls since well before the 2004 election.
Steve Forbes thought he was going to be nominated to the presidency in 1996.
Just remember that exit polls say kerry will be the next president
tee hee :)
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