Bush Support Drops Dramatically

Ipsos Public Affairs ^ | 3/10/2003

[ArcLight]

If the election were held today, only 39% of registered voters are sure they would vote for the reelection of President George W. Bush, and 34% would definitely vote for someone else, a five-point margin in the President’s favor, in a poll conducted February 18-20 and March 4-6, 2003 among 1,545 registered voters. That is a dramatic decline in Bush’s political standing domestically.

[ArcLight]

Uh-oh.

[ConservativeConvert]

The price of indecision...
Delay will further erode his waning support...

[InspiredPath1]

People are tired of all this damn indecision

[MinorityRepublican]

Ronald Reagan had below 40% in 1982.

[tomahawk]

Don't worry. Karl Rove is in the office.

[Howlin]

and 34% would definitely vote for someone else

So 66 percent will vote for him or might vote for him?

Check back in May.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Not surprising actually. He is now letting the peaceniks control the terms of the debate AND he looks wishy washy for letting the UN, etc., push us around. He should have attacked weeks, if not months ago, instead of giving the anti-American forces all this time to mobilize and get their willing allies in the media to attack him.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Not unexpected.

These polls will have meaning when Iraq is liberated.

[WOSG]

a sign he is letting Iraq drag on too long. His enemies are trying to shake him off his vision and focus. If he doesnt inveade Iraq, he will lose in 2004.

[finnman69]

So basically, according to the polls there has been zero erosion between January and now.

Non story, all within margin of error.

[brydic1]

I think Bush is waiting for the DJ to get to Zero. At the rate is it going it should be at that level about April 17th about the same time our troops will be collapsing from heat exhaustion.

[freeper12]

>>These polls will have meaning when Iraq is liberated.

Yea, for about a week, and then the economy will continue to tank and the poll numbers will go back down to below where they are now. Like father, like son.

[TheLooseThread]

B.S.

[BSunday]

Now all the dems have to do is find a way to get a candidate named "someone else" on the ticket. These kind of polls are jokes.

[per loin]

If we back down on Iraq, and our troops come home with their tails between their legs, while Saddam crows about facing us down, expect that 39% to approach zero.

[NittanyLion]

When a poll of registered voters has Bush up by 5%, I'd say he's just fine. All these numbers represent are each party's base vote; the real story is which way the other 27% are leaning (and I'm betting most of those go for Bush).

[Conspiracy Guy]

If 39 % of the registered voters voted for bush that would be a landslide. Since less than 60 % of registerd voters vote. This is huge.

[asneditor]

My support of W is fast waning. Either get on with the damn war or shut up over it.
The economy is sick while we sit back and wait on the UN and the rest of the pansies to tell us if war is OK.

[diotima]

Blah, blah, blah.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

You must have missed the election last year. It's not the economy, stupid.