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President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address on Jan. 31 did little to move his overall job approval rating, according to a new Gallup Poll. Roughly 4 in 10 Americans continue to say they approve of Bush, with a majority saying they disapprove. The poll also asked Americans to rate Bush on six issues facing the nation today. Of these issues, Bush scores highest on terrorism and lowest on energy and healthcare. There have only been modest variations in Americans’ ratings of these issues since late January, with the exception of a slight decrease in his healthcare policy rating.
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40% approval ratings.
Does this mean he has to step down? Dissolve the cabinet and appoint all Democrats? Or other than providing hard-core leftists some emotional masturbation material, is it meaningless. The last poll that really mattered re Presidents was in 2004. The next one is 2008. All in between are for losers.
Dugger
Laws aren’t good enough for this president and his possé of terrorist-getters!
Incompetent. Unpopular. 100 years from now, that will be all high school students remember about this sorry president.
Bad polls do not necessarily mean a president is doing a bad job, but when a president is doing a bad job his poll numbers will frequently be bad. That’s what we’re seeing in this case.
Funny how rightwingers have great respect for the wisdom of The American People ™ except when it comes to their opinion of Bush.
Shorter Duggger: winning is everything. Governing is nothing. Well, you got the right president for the job, then!
What good governance? What favorable poll results?
TomY,
Possibly you are conflating favorable poll results with good governance.
Dugger
remember all the polls saying John Kerry would win?
Maybe polls of people eating corn dogs in strip malls aren’t really all that accurate? Maybe what counts is how they vote?
Just a suggestion…..
Bush having some trouble with the corn dog demographic?
Polls don’t *mean* anything per se, but let’s not pretend they’re arbitrary figments. And how people voted several years ago isn’t an indicator of whether the president is doing a good job.
What do you think the actual satisfaction percentage is, Pedro? Let me guess: “Who cares?”
Look ‘lose (you don’t mind the nickname do you?),
we probably aggree on this. I am sure the trend for bush is not rising into the high 80′s on satisfaction. However, depending on the question and depending on the circumstances under which it is asked, people will respond with less thoughtfulness. It also doesn’t compare his numbers against anything else, nor can it meaningfully..
People love to grouse, but when the business becomes more serious, and something is on the line, the answers change.
People love to grouse, but when the business becomes more serious, and something is on the line, the answers change.
Uh oh. I smell another shoe bomber. President Bush to the Bat Cave!
Or maybe people made up their minds about Bush’s incompetence and mendacity after his desperate and pathetic Katrina bungling. Just a suggestion…
Polls saying Kerry would win were correct within a couple of percentage points.
If you’re saying the same is true with these polls about Bush, I wouldn’t argue with you.
Fact is, though, that the American people tend to think positively of their president even if they didn’t vote for them. Clinton’s approval numbers were usually way above the percentage of votes he got at election time.
The opposite is true of Bush.
Typical Pedro. The destruction of a major American city is not sufficiently “serious.” Anyone who thinks otherwise is “grousing.” Pathetic.
No more so than others who conflate “winning elections” with “being a leader.”
Quaker and Tom,
I merely would say bad polls in an off year do not equal bad governance. Take a poll of a group of kids about to get a shot. See if they like the nurse, but is the nurse doing a good, if unpopular thing?
Celebrating poll results – maybe I’ll be doing that in 2010, if Dems win in 2008. Right now I like my option better than yours.
Dugger
holy crap you guys are deep in BDS…
No mention of the destruction of an american city, no mention of shoe or any other bomber…yet you psycopaths pull those two subjects out of the ether (or perhaps your nether regions..)
Damn, absolutely no reality testing in your lives…
Dugger,
We’ve had the shot.
Cellulose, Finder of Joy In Analogies and Paradoy
cellulose,
and like a shot you never really appreciate how much good was done.
Dugger
Face it, the guy is simply an unpopular president. Get over it.
You think the polls in America are low for Bush, just about every poll I’ve seen from other countries is even lower. Why can’t Republicans see what is so blantantly obvious to the majority in this country and to the vast majority of the planet?
Good point rounds…we should let the French vote in US elections…you know, just to be “fair”
Good Doctor, this has nothing to do with voting. I’m talking about human beings living on the same planet who all, with the exception of mainly American Republicans, agree that Bush is a horrible, incompetent, dangerous individual. Since the French people occupy our planet, I will allow them their opinion on world leaders.
holy crap you guys are deep in BDS&
BDS is a copout. By denying the existence of rational arguments against Bush’s policies, conservatives spare themselves the burden of coming up with rational aguments for those policies. “Of course he’s doing the right thing, because … he just is! Anyone who can’t see that is just blinded by hate!”
And like lethal viral infection before symptoms appear, you are a dead man walking.
The cognitive impairment amongst the hypnotized Bush cultists around here is staggering
DS is a copout. By denying the existence of rational arguments against Bush s policies,
I don’t deny the existence of rational arguments against bush policies, I just never see any here….
-”people like to grouse”, yet Bush’ numbers are worse than any president at this stage of his career since Nixon. So ‘grousing’ won’t explain anything. Or was grousing invented in 2001?
-presidents usually get a bump in their numbers after the SOTU. No bump for Bush.
It’s not so much the numbers that are significant, but the numbers in comparison with the numbers of past presidents, and in comparison with Bush’ own previous numbers Anyone who isn’t afflicted with BFS (Bush Fellation Syndrome) or emproctocephaly will have no trouble recognizing this.
Now, the next time Dr. Pee (like the nickname by the way?) pompificates about how dems are out of touch with the average American, let’s all remind him of his derogatory comments above about corn dog eaters and strip mall shoppers.
I don t deny the existence of rational arguments against bush policies, I just never see any here& .
More proof that it’s hard to see with your head up your ass.
“Take a poll of a group of kids about to get a shot. See if they like the nurse, but is the nurse doing a good, if unpopular thing?”
And what exactly are these tough love, unpopular but good for us in the long run proposals that so many American voters (mere children in Dugger’s eyes) are making sour faces over?
Tax cuts for the rich? The middle class just needs to accept that the rich are better than them.
A disastrous response to hurricane Katrina? Surely a slow, uncoordinated, corrupt response is the best indication of future success. Just, look at how far we’ve come since our slow, uncoordinated, corrupt response to the insurgency in Iraq.
And of the ongoing blood bath there? A decade from now when we finally have the electrical grid back up and running everyone will see how worth it all those lives were.
Warrantless wiretappig of American citizens? In the long run, no one will ever miss the Fourth Amendment … or Congress.
A botched prescription drug benefit? People just needed a crash course in learning the true value of their lives when compared to pharmaceutical company profits: Zero. Now they know better.
Naturally, Dugger thinks these are the words of a shrill partisan hack so I’d love to know what he thinks these “tough love” policies of the president really are.
“I don t deny the existence of rational arguments against bush policies, I just never see any here& . ”
Peedro
When it comes to Bush, you remind me of a sign that I first remember seeing in my uncle’s country store as a kid. He collected sayings like these as jokes and put them up so folks could get a laugh.
“Don’t confuse me with the facts. My mind is made up.”
Glad I could bring back your childhood reminiscence….who cares?
I throw down here with facts every day, and they are summarily ignored in favor of how someone “feels” about some subject or another.
You want to bitch about big goverment spending…sign me up…
pee
As usual you missed the point. My pont was that you seem so obsessed with protecting the actions of Bush that you blow off any information questioning his actions as just bitching.
Talk about big government – Want to talk about wasteful spending? the deficit? physical responsibility?
I debate that issue with you anyday, bub.
No I don’t….as I pointed out, I am not all that happy with his republican “big government” budgets either. I don’t like his stand on abortion. I think intelligent design is a crock. I wish he would push harder to drill in anwar. I would like a big push to use more “nuculur” power.
The problem is that the lefties here preach all sorts of twaddle that they get direct from Kos or something, not anything based in fact.
You guys just toss out ridiculous theories, hoping to get some resonance with the population. They change every week. Bush is going to impeached for “lying” about the gulf war. He started the war for oil. He started the war for halliburton. He didn’t start the war, cheney did. Cheney didn’t do it, the pres and vp are just sock puppets for karl rove.
I could go on, but you get my point.
Interesting. By the way, I dont get anything from Kos and very seldom visit the site.
I wasn’t speaking of you personally, but the leftist crowd in general. One of them starts the “war for Halliburton” meme, and then the pinko blogosphere echo chambers magnifies it….
I throw down here with facts every day, and they are summarily ignored in favor of how someone feels about some subject or another.
Examples?