Posted on 05/18/2006 9:21:28 AM PDT by NYC Republican
Thirty-six percent (36%) of Americans Approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Just 15% Strongly Approve. Those are the lowest levels ever measured by Rasmussen Reports. Just 65% of Republicans approve of the President's Job Performance, also a new low.
This data is based upon nightly telephone surveys and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. For today's update, more than 75% of respondents were interviewed after the President Bush's speech on immigration.
Just 39% of voters agree with the President's approach on immigration. Most consider the issue very important and believe that strict enforcement of immigration laws will help the economy.
Democrats now hold a 15-percentage point lead over Republicans on the Generic Congressional Ballot. Before the Presdent's speech, they had a 10-point lead. Just 27% of Americans believe the country is now heading in the right direction.
While the President's numbers have fallen, Hillary Clinton's poll numbers are the best they've been in more than a year of Hillary Meter polling by Rasmussen Reports. Another Democrat doing well is Ted Strickland. He maintains a double digit lead in his effort to become the first Democratic Governor of Ohio in 16 years.
Also in Ohio. Congressman Sherrod Brown (D) leads incumbent Senator Mike DeWine (R) by three percentage points. Though within the poll's margin of error, it's the first time Brown has had a lead of any sort.
Montana Senator Conrad Burns (R) once again trails both Democrats seeking his job. Dragged down by his association with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Burns' poll numbers are worse than those for a relatively unknown GOP challenger.
Washington Senator Maria Cantwell (D) has been on the defensive lately and her lead has shrunk to five percentage points. When the year began, she was up by 15.
Visit the Rasmussen Reports Election Polls page to see results from our most recent state-by-state polling for Election 2006
He is basically clueless, and Rove is apparently living in fantasyland that "immigration reform" was a winning issue.I feel sad to say these words: you are right.
That's why no bill is better than this bill. I greatly prefer the existing policy of not-enforcing EXISTING immigration, labor & employment laws than to confer citizenship on illegal aliens.
Let the status quo remain. The fight will be continued in different venues, primarily the civil courts. Direct action taken by We the People in terms of monetary penalties should serve to put a dampner on this activity.
5:00PM EDT May 15, 2006 will be marked as Bush's Waterloo.
Stroke of the Pen, Law of the Land. Pretty cool.
The President could change the dynamics of Border Control tomorrow if he so chose. He doesn't. Talk is cheap, and voters have had a bellyful of it. Action is what is needed.
Rassmussen has been the most reliable pollster out there, IINM.
And he's still about 5-6 points higher than the others.
Rasmussen is so reliable he had to change the name of his polling company after he utterly blew the 2000 election.
Bring. Them. On.
What are you supposed to tell the cops, particularly if you live in a sanctuary city? They aren't going to arrest anyone because somebody points out they're hiring illegals. Not unless they're absolutely forced to with solid documentation. They're not interested in busting up these racketeers.
Yes, we know, after six years, you can count all those punished on one hand.
There is no filibuster in the House. They need to get rid of it in the Senate too.
Very true. And I hope they don't make the mistake of confusing the display of importance of an OO Prime Time speech with the urgency of actual action, because they can be sure we won't.
There isn't going to be any bill agreed on and passed. This worthless congress is meeting for less than 90 days this entire year. They have to get this done by next week so they can go off to summer vacation.
HA! Touché!
" ... President Bush's biggest problem is President Bush. He will stick to his principle on compassionate treatment of illegals and it will sink him. His Achilles Heel so to speak is his compassion, it overrides the oath he took. And that's where he loses me sad to say."
I agree with you completely and I've never written a post personally critical of President Bush ( McClellan and the WH PR dept-yes ) before.
I deal with everyone from hard core conservatives to ultra libs on a daily basis.
I have not encountered one person who is in favor of allowing illegals to become citizens in the way it is currently being proposed.
Logistic realities aside- the overwhelming sentiment is that illegals go home first and then get on the back of the line.
No one takes a few minutes to ponder the question- the reaction is primal and instinctive.
President Bush may not be able to recover from this debacle ,but, I truly hope that he can.
Too much is at stake for him to risk his presidency ,the WOT , the success in Iraq, SC nominees, etc because of his compassion for illegals.
Bush won a general election 3 years after 9/11, and there was very little discussion about the border leading up to that vote.
This has nothing to do with 9/11 (while the Iraq war has everything to do with 9/11 and al Qaeda, and Americans have bailed on that mission). It's is a mass-media driven pile-on. And the bulk of the republicans turning on the President now and merely jumping at the chance to join the side they perceive as winning.
President Bush could have closed the borders on 9/12 by executive order and nobody, not the libs in Congress nor the government of Mexico, would have uttered a peep had he done so. I was shocked when he didn't. The President squandered the opportunity of a lifetime to get the illegal situation under control.
But it's great to see that conservatives mean business. Their pulling no punches in voicing their disapproval with the president on immigration.
This makes me really proud to be conservative. Right now, we're showing the world that we mean business, unlike those weak- kneed spin meisters under Clinton.
Whenever Clinton failed to carry out the liberal agenda, they'd just blame conservatives.
Not so with us.
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