CNN: Poll: Bush approval rating still low (new CNN/USA Today/Gallup)

[DeepModem Mom]

Poll: Bush approval rating still low
Survey indicates growing dissatisfaction with war in Iraq
Monday, August 8, 2005; Posted: 7:25 p.m. EDT


(CNN) -- President Bush's approval rating remains among the lowest of his presidency, with some Americans growing increasingly dissatisfied with the Iraq war, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday.

Forty-five percent of those polled said they approve of Bush's handling of his job, compared with 51 percent who said they are dissatisfied.

The rating is up just slightly -- 1 percentage point -- from a poll late last month when Bush had a 44 percent approval rating, the lowest of his presidency....

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According to the poll, 68 percent of respondents said they feel (Hillary) Clinton is a strong and decisive leader, and 60 percent said they view the Democratic senator from New York as likable....51 percent said Clinton -- a potential Democratic candidate for president in 2008 -- did not share their values, and 53 percent said she would not unite the country....

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Fifty-six percent of those polled said they thought things were going badly for the United States in Iraq, and 43 percent said things were going well....57 percent said the war has made the United States less safe from terrorism -- a number that has risen dramatically in just two months when 39 percent said the U.S. homeland was less safe....54 percent said they believe it was a mistake to send U.S. troops to Iraq; 44 percent said it was not....Those numbers have nearly reversed since last month, when 46 percent said it was a mistake to send troops and 53 percent said it was not....


http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/08/bush.poll/index.html

[stepnw1f]

1. FALLING

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[jsamuel]

2. Gallup is Bush's PR firm...

[Rainscents]

5. These right wing poll is always trying to push he poll numbers up...

I have news for these fuckers... When the right wing goes down, they are all going down with the basters!!!:argh:

[Beetwasher]

23. Gallup's Done This Before, Run Two Polls Really Close To Eachother

After a poll has bad number for Chimpy, or to create the illusion of an upward trend. They are a propoganda arm of the WH.

[DrRang]

33. Franco still dead. n/t

[Rainscents]

3. Did they expected his poll number to go up???

:crazy:

[acmavm]

12. That's what I was wondering. What do the think the jackass has done

to climb in the polls? Go on vacation?

[Cha]

4. Oh, hillary wouldn't unite the

country like bush is doing?

I don't hillary for my prez but no one could un-unite our country more than the chimp.

[DanCa]

6. Clark Clealand 08

As much as I respect senator clinton I am pulling for clark and clealand. Of course I would vote for the dem nominee regardless of who it is.

[Cha]

9. Is that just your desire or

is Max Cleland considering or being considered to run for VP?

I've heard him speak..he is amazing..Georgia really lost out when Max was forced out.

Couldn't have an War Vet amputee in the Senate who was a Democrat.

[DanCa]

11. My own dellusion at this point

It's an idea that I have had in the back of my head now for about a week. I don't know how it started. I love that tough old guy.

[stanwyck]

25. what happened to Max here in GA

was appalling. Disgraceful. The rightwing hatetalkers will have to live with the aftermath of their lying, despicable behavior toward Cleland.
They disgraced themselves with their actions.
A bunch of chickenhawks throwing mud. How sad for our country that these people infect others with their lies and ugly behavior.

[Barkley]

28. Nah, Its Sheehan and Hackett in '06

That's my dream team!

[VegasWolf]

8. One really excellent thing about Hillary is that I would LOVE to see

the conservatives heads spin on their shoulders while they go through eight years of the person they hate the most. It would
be priceless to watch them dwell in hell.

[Frances]

10. Love your post

Hillary is not my first or second or third choice, but if she is elected, I want to see the heads of those Repubs spinning on their shoulders too!

[Jawja]

26. That would be our

revenge to those who stuck us with the idiot son for 8 long years. :evilgrin:

[jobycom]

7. 68% say Hillary is a strong leader, 60% say she's likeable... Hmmm....

She's SO unelectable, isn't she?

[wisteria]

14. Name recognition only! n/t

[jobycom]

20. So? Still shatters the argument that she has too many negatives

to win.

[Erika]

15. My GOP friend says she'll vote for Hillary

because she's an intelligent and stick-to-it woman. She has raised a very intelligent and compassionate daughter and worked to keep her marriage alive. She's totally turned off by the love them and leave them tactics of Guiliani and Newt.

It's time for real family values.

[Barkley]

27. I won't vote for Hillary!

She wants to get "tough" by adding more troops to Iraq.

These people have suffered enough:

500,000 deaths from UN sanctions
100,000 deaths from shock and awe
limited electricity or drinking water
daily terrorist attacks
Abu Graib
Falluja

... and she wants to get tough!?!?!?!

We have suffered enough:

1800 + GI dead
$300 billion and counting ($5 billion a month)

The long-term economic, social and political development of
Iraq is NOT the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers.

[DeepModem Mom]

22. I think this represents a turnaround in her public image?

I hope so. She has done nothing to deserve the vitriol that the Right has heaped upon her.

[lonestarnot]

13. Nope holding strong @ 33 and a TURD!

[wisteria]

16. Why is Hillary even in this poll?At this point she is just another

senator.

[against all enemies]

17. Yeah, right.

[catmandu57]

30. She's a smoke screen

Someone to ignite the right's passion so that they'll blindly knee jerk for the boy idiot*. The real numbers won't be told by gallup, so I don't put much stock in them, still, with them reporting the negatives on the rise it's kind of like trying to push a car uphill. Once gravity takes over watch out.

[grytpype]

18. Love it...

... the Bush worshippers are in the minority in the country now. And the are starting to become aware of that fact. What is wrong with them? When are they going to wake up? It has to be eating away at them.

[Erika]

19. Bush used them and abused them

It's a syndrome. They'll stick with him all the way.

[yorkiemommie1]

21. absolutely

n/t

[nolabels]

24. How convenient of corporate MSM like sell us the Bush and his wars

Then when it gets to untenable pull back or out to keep audience, like eff the heck out of them twice over already. They are useful to keep a flock of sheep and not much else. A steady rain of this mercantile salesmanship and people still haven't figured out how they are being bought and sold.

The Debt To the Penny

Current Amount

08/05/2005 $7,880,012,385,205.52
(snip)
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

$7,880,012,385,205.52 divided by 300,000,000 equals $26,266.70

[pseudostar]

29. Hillary...

NOOOOOOOOOOOO Not Hilary. ANYONE but hilary. I want to win '08.

I'd honestly stay home if my options were Hilary/Jeb... Im fucking sick and tired of holding my nose and crying in the booth.

96 I was too young to vote, but I wish I could've, Dole v. Clinton, partisanship aside, they were both damn good candidates. America couldn't lose. Plus if Dole won, * wouldn't have in 00 (Bonus points for Bobby).

00 I voted for Nader. I was young naive and thought both crappy candidates were pretty different colors of the same turd pile. I also voted for Santorum for NYS because that milquetoast republican douchebag would have at least had to TRY to convince NYS he was working for us.

04 I voted was Kerry, but i closed my eyes and pretended I was voting for Edwards.

06 Im voting against clinton. and I hope I dont have to do the same in 08.

[Javaman]

31. moron* has fallen and he can get up!

[tabasco]

32. 45% It's that high?!?!?

This should tell you this Nation has serious problems that won't be solved overnight. Corporate propaganda has paid big dividends to the republicans. Their devoted followers remain loyal to their party rather than to their Nation, even with a clearly unqualified "leader" such as Bush. The corporate-controlled mass media is the greatest enemy of progress. The same people that control the media sell weapons to the Pentagon. I'm not sure this country can fix itself anymore without a drastic increase of the misery index. Well, thanks to the republicans, we will all get to watch the misery index rise and rise. How far she goes - nobody knows!

[grahamhgreen]

34. Next terrorist attack will occur when approval drops below 40%

- Prediction -