HOW LOW CAN IT GO

CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.

CBS News senior White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that now it turns out the Coast Guard had concerns about the ports deal, a disclosure that is no doubt troubling to a president who assured Americans there was no security risk from the deal.

The troubling results for the Bush administration come amid reminders about the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and negative assessments of how the government and the president have handled it for six months.

In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September’s poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall.

Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.

For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall.

Just 30 percent approve of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low.

By two to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are going badly – the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq.

Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr. Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve.

In a bright spot for the administration, most Americans appeared to have heard enough about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.

More then three in four said it was understandable that the accident had occurred and two-thirds said the media had spent too much time covering the story.

Still, the incident appears to have made the public's already negative view of Cheney a more so. Just 18 percent said they had a favorable view of the vice president, down from 23 percent in January.

Americans were evenly split on whether or not Cheney's explanation of why there was a delay in reporting the accident was satisfactory.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/27/...in1350874.shtml

Could it get any worse?

Originally posted by KING BLING@Mar 1 2006, 04:59 PM

 

 

 

 

 

Could it get any worse?

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It can ALWAYS get worse....

It can... and hopefully will.

meh if the american public could vote him in again, i guaranfuckintee they will.

excuse me, would

Haha yeah you're right. The problem is A: There's a lot of stupid people in America, and B: Democrats don't know how to talk to people. But that's off topic.

at least americans have a low opinion of Bush now and youd expect (or hope) things will swing the other way next election. here in Australia weve had the same piece of shit (John Howard) as our Prime Minister for 10 years and hes still going and has something like twice the support of the leader of the opposition (who is admittedly a dipshit). The thing that sets John Howard apart from Bush is that although everyone hates what has happened to Australian society under Howard, and know he lied about the war in Iraq and know all he does is suck American cock, he has managed the Australian economy really well and unfortunately the economy is all most of the automaton middle class cares about

It's about to get even lower, now that those tapes were released showing that Bush and his administration were repeatedly warned about the possibility of the levees breaking in New Orleans.

"Oh, we meant that no one thought the levees would break from a category 3 hurricane..."

Right......

best news in a long time. they are getting caught up in their own web of multitudinous lies

Originally posted by yum@Mar 2 2006, 02:08 AM

at least americans have a low opinion of Bush now and youd expect (or hope) things will swing the other way next election. here in Australia weve had the same piece of shit (John Howard) as our Prime Minister for 10 years and hes still going and has something like twice the support of the leader of the opposition (who is admittedly a dipshit). The thing that sets John Howard apart from Bush is that although everyone hates what has happened to Australian society under Howard, and know he lied about the war in Iraq and know all he does is suck American cock, he has managed the Australian economy really well and unfortunately the economy is all most of the automaton middle class cares about

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yeah but look at us in canada my fellow colonial. we had the liberals in for fuckin 12 years and they just got ousted. sure its a minority, but it proves that it can happen

Originally posted by Herbivore@Mar 1 2006, 05:10 PM

It can... and hopefully will.

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i hate to say i told you so

...no I don't.

I think it can and will get lower. Honestly, when are we going to hear serious talk of impeachment? Everyone is just standing around like, "wow... our president sure is a dipshit. And he's been breaking a lot of laws. I wonder what's on Fox right now?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12499923/

WASHINGTON - As gasoline prices have spiked above $3 a gallon throughout the country, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that the public’s view of President Bush’s job, the economy and the nation’s direction have continued to decline. But with the midterm elections just six months away, the biggest drop in the survey — 11 points in one month — is in the approval rating of Congress, which is locked in a bitter debate over what do about these gas prices, immigration, Iraq and a host of other issues.

“You have never seen such a sour mood in the country,” says Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican Bill McInturff. “It is sour, sour, sour.”

And in that sour mood, the poll shows, registered voters say they prefer Democrats controlling Congress — but by a smaller margin than in the past few NBC/Journal surveys.

According to the poll, Bush’s approval rating fell by one point from last month to 36 percent, his lowest mark in the survey. But the troubling news for Bush doesn’t stop there: Hart explains that Bush has now spent nine consecutive months at 40 percent or below in the poll, a feat exceeded only by Richard Nixon (13 months) and Harry Truman (26 months).

McInturff adds that it will be difficult for the president to substantially improve his standing, barring an increase in stability in Iraq or some kind of “extraordinary” event taking place.

Yet Bush’s approval isn’t the only measure that has declined. In the poll — which was taken April 21-24 of 1,005 adults, and which has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points — just 24 percent believe the nation is headed in the right direction, a drop of two points since last month and seven points since January. What’s more, only 17 percent think the nation’s economy will improve in the next 12 months, a decline of seven points since March.

Why the growing pessimism? It appears that higher gas prices are partly to blame. A whopping 77 percent say they feel uneasy about the economy, due to rising gas prices, higher interest rates and a larger federal deficit. On the other hand, just 19 percent say they feel confident, because jobs are being created and the stock market is growing.

“Gas prices and the deficit trump any other set of [economic] numbers,” Hart says. “It just takes your breath away when you fill up for $50 or $60.”

Indeed, higher gas prices topped the list of events in the past six weeks that respondents say concern them the most. The possibility of Iran’s building a nuclear weapon was next, followed by immigration and then the violence in Iraq.

But if the public is dissatisfied with gas prices, its opinion of Congress isn’t much better. According to the poll, just 22 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, a drop of 11 points since March. “That’s a lot of movement in a four- to six-week period,” says McInturff, the GOP pollster, who attributes the drop to a sharp decline in approval by Republican respondents.

Asked to rank the top one or two reasons for their disapproval of Congress, 44 percent say they are tired of Democrats and Republicans fighting with each other, 36 percent say Congress doesn’t seem to get that much done, and 34 percent say members are corrupt and unethical.

How will that anger play out in November’s midterm elections? Forty-five percent of registered voters say they prefer Democrats controlling Congress, compared with 39 percent who say they want Republicans in charge. That six-point Democratic advantage, however, is smaller than the 13-point advantage Democrats held in March or the nine-point advantage they had in January.

Yet while McInturff says voters “are not happy with either party,” he cautions against reading too much into that narrower margin, pointing out that all other polls he has seen show Democrats with a sizable lead.

Also in the NBC/Journal poll, 43 percent say their representative’s position on national issues — a terrain that seems to favor Democrats — matters the most in deciding how they vote, while 38 percent maintain that what matters most is the representative’s performance in taking care of problems in the district.

All of this, Hart says, adds up to a political environment that is “exceptionally worrisome for Republicans.” And he believes that as we head toward November, “the die is getting close to being cast” — that Americans are unhappy and want change.

simply because bush has a low approval rating doesn't necessarily mean the republican party has a low approval rating, therefore, if people had a chance to vote again and bush was the republican candidate, voters might opt for another candidate (possibly democratic candidate) regardless of the democratic party's inability to connect (don't know if this is the case, it may be more accurate to say that people don't know how to connect with the democratic party). but republican party uber alles if they have the right candidate, or just a different candidate, because bush definitely wasn't the right candidate initially, but hindsight is always 20/20. truth be told, most anyone could've seen this coming.

49% of voters last time "connected" with the Democratic party. The use of that complaint is just another Republican slogan. Both parties don't genuinely connect with people, even if they say they do, it's really just a matter of who has the best PR.

And what exactly do you think this quote means, if not that the republican party has lost ground: "Forty-five percent of registered voters say they prefer Democrats controlling Congress, compared with 39 percent who say they want Republicans in charge."

i was just responding to what a previous post said regarding democrats not knowing how to talk to people.

and i didn't read the article, so the quote was lost on me. regardless of your 49% or even majority vote when, apparantly, gore won over bush, it's just not gonna happen for the democrats. special interest won't allow it. and even if they did allow it, it wouldn't matter anyway, they're both conservative regiems, no matter how "liberal" democrats might like to believe they are. two sides of the same coin really. i'm retarded, and sure that this makes no sense. i rarely do.

i think i should be banned from this forum.

THis....is one of the BIGGEST debacles in the history of this country. ANd people are sleeping. Look how people almost have heartattacks and devote their friggin lives to making sure Clinton gets impeached cause he lied about getting head...Meanwhile, this SCUMBAG lies to the country and the world about Iraq's weapons of mass dest. to move along with his agenda killing soooo maaany innocent U.S. Soldiers& Iraqi citizen..Not to mention putting us in a deeeeeeper and deeeeeper hole (not only financially, but with the world as well). Drunken, cocaine sniffing, knocking up girls, lying, illiterate, outlaw, riggin elections & lying about 911 ass nigga. I dont know what's worse... HIM? or the friggin IDIOTS inthis country who voted him in AGAIN!

the one eyed man is king in the land of the blind

Lately I'm coming more and more to believe in the idea of "proportional representation." This is the way parliamentarian governments (like UK, France and Germany) operate. There is no "winner take all" like in the U.S. If the Socialist Party gets 10% of the votes, they get 10% of the seats in the House of Representatives. If the Democrats get 49% of the votes, they get 49% of the seats in the House of Representatives. ANY POLITICAL PARTY that gets 3% of the vote gets a seat in the House--Green Party, P-FLAG, the National Socialists, the Black Panther Party, Southern National Party, Communist Party--- any party. Senators should be elected by State legislatures, two per state, instead of elected from Congressionial districts (this is the way Senators were elected until about 1896.) That way, the people of the State have a leash on the Senator. If he (or she) goes renegade, and stops doing what his constituents want him to do, the State legislature can yank his ass out of there and elect somebody else in a special election.

In order to get a majority so they can pass legislation, trhe bigger parties would have to please enough of the little guys to win. So the Republicans might have to woo the vote of the P-FLAG representative, or the Democrats might have to compromise with the Communists and the Southern National Party. The way it is now, whoever wins the majority in Congress rams their shit down everybody else's throat for four years, and then the opposing party gets a majority and undoes all the shit that the opposing party did, and rams different laws down everybody's throat. Only people who support the Big Two parties ever get anything they want, and the rest of us get fuck all. This is not right. The Founding Fathers were against this too, read what George Washington had to say about "fractions and combinations." He was talking about proto-political parties that later became the Democratic-Republicans and the Whigs.

WASHINGTON -- Polls may show President George W. Bush's popularity tanking, but the first lady isn't buying it.

Laura Bush told "Fox News Sunday" she doesn't think Americans are losing confidence in her husband.

"I don't really believe those polls," she said.

"What we're seeing with these poll numbers is a lot of fun in the press," the first lady added.

Laura Bush said the press takes a poll every other week and puts it on the front page of the newspaper. When the president's polls were really high they weren't on the front page, she said.

The first lady also defended the president's domestic surveillance programs.

She said if intelligence activities had not been authorized, and there was a terrorist attack, people would want to know "why haven't you been trying to track al-Qaida?"

http://www.click2houston.com/politics/9213291/detail.html

LETS LIVE IN DENIAL! It's what my husband does...

You people don't get it. Bush wasn't even elected either time. Nobody realy likes him and it's only been a small amount of idiots that ever did. And untill people stop being lazy and take a stand it's just gonna be another Bush appointed next "election" and the "election" after that untill the rest of the world finally either invades us or nukes us.

I have not gotten it until right now.