Newsweek Poll: Bush approval at 35%

[CookieD]

Just announced on MSNBC. Waiting for link. Other numbers in the survey sounded excellent!

Link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15557264/site/newsweek/

Nov. 4, 2006 - As President George W. Bush jets across Red State America this weekend, Republican candidates are falling further behind Democratic rivals, according to the new NEWSWEEK poll. While the GOP has lagged behind Democrats throughout the campaign season, the trend in the past month—when NEWSWEEK conducted four polls in five weeks—had suggested the Republicans were building momentum in the homestretch.

No more. The new poll finds support for Republicans (and for President Bush) receding. For example, 53 percent of Americans want the Democrats to win enough seats to take control of one or both houses of Congress in the midterm elections on Tuesday. Those results are close to early October levels, while less than a third of Americans (32 percent) want Republicans to retain control. If the elections were held today, 54 percent of likely voters say they would support the Democratic candidate in their district versus 38 percent who would vote for the Republican-a 16-point edge for the Democrats.

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Meanwhile, the President’s approval has fallen back to 35 percent, after a slow but steady rise from 33 percent at the beginning of October to 37 percent in the NEWSWEEK poll last week.

[Hugin]

1. Dang, for once in my life I'm more popular than somebody.

:)

[niceypoo]

2. Republicans in my political chatroom always gloat when a poll shows * at 39% or 40%

Gawd it must suck to be them!

[Hugin]

3. Can the limbo bar of expectations be lowered any farther...

Worms can't jump.

[AnneD]

9. BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA

:rofl:How low can you go... snarky. The expression down here is 'lower that dog shit on your boot heel'.

[tabasco]

4. A country with one-third brownshirts.

The kool-aid drinkers are loyal to their party, not their Nation.

[jobycom]

5. I know this is positive news for America, but I just can't help being disgusted

by that 35%. :shrug:

[jefferson_dem]

6. Check out the yawning lot in this fucking picture of chimp doing his song and dance.

:puke:

[Riddler]

7. Then I guess it's official....35% of Americans are truly idiots!

[pinkpops]

8. That would be your "some of the people all of the time" crowd

[davekriss]

10. The old DSM IV criteria for "idiot" was...

...an IQ less than 70. So you are wrong, the 35% that still support George W Bush despite (in the convenient words of Molly Ivins):

Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, unprecedented presidential powers, unmatched incompetence, unparalleled corruption, unwarranted eavesdropping, Katrina, Enron, Halliburton, global warming, Cheney’s secret energy task force, record oil company profits, $3 gasoline, FEMA, the Supreme Court, Diebold, Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004, Terri Schiavo, stem cell research, golden parachutes, shrunken pensions, unavailable and expensive healthcare, habeas corpus, no weapons of mass destruction, sacrificed soldiers and Iraqi civilians, wasted billions, Taliban resurgence, expiration of the assault weapons ban, North Korea, Iran, intelligent design, Swift boat hit squads, and on and on.

In light of all that these 35% are definately not DSM IV Idiots, they meet the old criteria for IMBECILES, ie. there IQ's must be less than 50!

In actual fact I believe their moral IQ's are less than 50.

[Cocoa]

12. the backwash is looking a little haggard

[badgerpup]

17. It's not just the kid in the red shirt, either...

The girl on the far left looks like she's nodded off, the woman over her shoulder looks like she's trying valiantly to swallow a yawn, the person next to her has that "I look like I'm paying attention, but I'm really in my own little world" look that high school students develop...
And the woman at the far right at the pic just looks BORED and like she wants to get the hell outta here.

[Gregorian]

11. I saw a W sticker today.

I could not believe my eyes.

You'd have to be retarded. Which begs the question- just what is wrong with 35% of America?

[OnionPatch]

16. I saw one yesterday

He had two W stickers on his car. I don't see a lot of them anymore but there are still a lot of other right-wing stickers around here and our crooked, Republican congressman is a shoe-in according to the polls. We have a very "special" type of Republican around here. :eyes: I'm betting they are a big stronghold of that 35%. But I'm glad to know the rest of the country is coming around.:)

[pa28]

18. On the rare occasion I see one I think the same thing.

At this point who on earth would be admitting support for W?

I always have to check the driver glassy eyes, slack jaw, tall hairdo etc.

[The Count]

13. "Slow but steady rise to 37" BS! The real numbers are probably 12%

I am so not buying any of it...This is the pre-election poll that needs to CYA for the results.

[corkhead]

14. It may be approaching "two low to steal" territory for the 'pukes

Who knows what will happen with the full out voter suppression effort they are putting on. Vote early and often.

[K8-EEE]

15. Keep "Jetting Across Red State America," Chimpy....

Cuz it ain't workin'!

[Raine]

19. The 'dirty thirty' he still pulls them in

even when the 'filthy forty' have had enough.

[ihelpu2see]

20. I cant believe it is even that high.... Recently the more

I hear him speak the more I wonder... who is drugging that poor man? He is slurring more and sounding way to "folksy".....which makes him sound not just stupid but reeaallly stupid!

[RaRa]

21. I know how hard it is to believe

but I live in such an area where the folks MUST be sticking their fingers in their ears singing "na na nana na". Yup, my kids even got a jesuz saves flyer with their candy from one house.