Gallup: Bush approval 40%, disapproval 56%

[Lexingtonian]

http://www.gallup.com/
http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=18148

Bush Approval Rating Continues to Drop

President Bush's job approval rating is now at 40%, the lowest of his administration. Bush has averaged 43% across three Gallup Polls conducted in August, marking a slow but steady decline since the beginning of the year. Bush's approval rating has dropped among independents, and has also dropped modestly among Republicans. Bush's August average rating is the lowest for any re-elected president since World War II at a similar point after their re-election, with the exception of Richard Nixon. Only 34% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States today -- the lowest satisfaction rating since January 1996.

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Thirty-five percent of poll respondents identified themselves as Democrats, 29% as Republicans, and 34% as independents.

It's not going to be a good day in Freeperland. It seems a lot of Republicans are no longer even calling themselves that. The GOP is being delivered into the ICU, comatose. And I love the way Nixon keeps on coming up as most similar to Bush...

[Walt Starr]

1. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!

Three in a fucking row!

Bush is GOING DOWN!!!

[krkaufman]

2. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Gallup was fudging a 39%...

... up to 40% to make Bush's approval seem higher.

[Nite Owl]

3. And this is Gallup

who pads the Repuke side so it must be even worse. The one that was at 36% could be on the high side now.

[Roland99]

6. Did you read the OP?

Thirty-five percent of poll respondents identified themselves as Democrats, 29% as Republicans, and 34% as independents.

Looks like Gallup has finally corrected their ideological error.

[Roland99]

4. Whoa! Gallup has finally corrected their samples?

Does this mean the days of tilting towards the right for the Gallup Poll is gone?

[Flubadubya]

10. No... they still tilt right.

So, what this means is that his approval rating really is about where the American Research poll had it to begin with... 36%. Gallup is still biased, always will be as long as it is run by the right-wingers.

[Roland99]

15. How can you say that, though?

Thirty-five percent of poll respondents identified themselves as Democrats, 29% as Republicans, and 34% as independents.

Although, the number of independents seems surprisingly high.

[Flubadubya]

17. Oops, sorry Roland...

I didn't read that. I admit, I was going on past performance standards for Gallup. Mea culpa! That certainly does surprise me though.

On Edit: Looks like independents are "waking up"?

[Roland99]

19. heh...I can't help but wonder if some of the Rep. are now Ind.

Embarrassed of their party?

Pretty much describes me. ;)

[Lexingtonian]

18. it's selfreported Party ID

Last year they had some sort of structural Republican skew, i.e. adjusted numbers upward on the Republican side because they "knew" that that many Republicans were out there.

This year they've gone over to selfreporting on Party ID and don't seem to adjust numbers retroactive to polling as much. As I recall, on-the-paper party registration was par last year, 33-34% each side. Gallup is fun to watch as people deny/change their on-paper registration to pollsters. (They keep it in as partisan barometer.)

Gallup has more cred with the Pubbies because of the way they poll. They get all the soft Bush leaners in as 'approval' and their Undecideds are soft leaners against Republicans and Bush.

ARG and Zogby- who get so much cred around here- poll the other way around: their Undecideds tend to be soft Bush leaners.

Put ARG/Zogby and Gallup together in this way, and the picture that emerges from them is very consistent over 2005.

[Roland99]

20. That makes sense with Zogby and would explain Nov. 2004's results.

[AlamoDemoc]

5. I am surprised it took this long for the American public

to realize this administration's wack-job extraordinaire

[pauldavid]

7. marking a slow but steady decline?

He dropped 5 point, more then 10% since their last pole. Doesn't seem that slow to me.

[EnfantTerrible]

9. They're trying not to incite

PANIC!!!!!!!!

Welcome to DU pauldavid. :hi:

[TahitiNut]

11. It's literally a DECIMATION of Bush-supporters

FWIW, 'decimation' means eliminating 1/10th ... and comes from the Roman Empire's practice of murdering every 10th person as punishment for the 'crimes' of a group/community. So, when 50% becomes 45% or 40% becomes 36%, it's a reduction of 1/10th. Decimation.

We're finally witnessing the decimation of support for this criminal regime. I doubt, however, it;ll make much difference ... since they rely on POWER, not democracy.

[Flubadubya]

16. And don't forget rigged voting apparatus...

:(

[wli]

21. eh? decimation is reduction to 1/10 of prior n/t

[TahitiNut]

23. (Hmmmm...)

At the risk of repeating myself... :silly: :dunce: :eyes: :party:

Decimation was a form of extreme military discipline imposed by officers in the Roman Army. Literally meaning "removal of a tenth," this punishment was assigned to mutinous or cowardly soldiers. Those selected for punishment were divided into groups of ten; each group cast lots, and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning or clubbing. In addition, the remaining soldiers were given rations of barley instead of wheat and forced to sleep outside of the Roman encampment.

Because the punishment fell by lot, all soldiers in the selected cohort were eligible for execution, regardless of rank or distinction. As a result, the threat of decimation inspired fear and resolve into the Roman Legions. However, because a decimation significantly reduced the troop strength of an army, the punishment was rarely utilized. <snip>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation

:shrug:

"Decimation: punishment in the Roman army. Of every ten soldiers, one was executed."
http://www.livius.org/de-dh/decimation/decimation.html

"decimation
A noun
1 decimation
destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)"
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/decimation

[proud patriot]

26. It's about time

Hi :hi:

[Proud2BAmurkin]

8. LMFAO. LOSERRRRRRRRRR

Fucking loser.

[Beetwasher]

12. I'm Shocked, Seriously!!

The floodgates have opened. I didn't expect this on Gallup. I'd have to say the ARG poll was probably spot on and NOT an outlier considering Gallup's historical pro-Bush bias.

I predicted (wrongly) that Gallup would not show a drop, or even a minor bump up for Chimpy. I'm flabbergasted about this.

I wonder if CNN will trumpet these results the same way they do good polls for Chimpy? These data are a big story, they're DISASTROUS!!

[samsingh]

27. yes Beetwasher, i was keeping tabs on your predication

on Gallop.

Glad to see that you were wrong!

[Beetwasher]

30. Keeping Tabs On Me, Huh?

Keeping me honest? ;-)

[seabeyond]

13. that is gallup language, so reality, 37-38%... i have learned

from the past gallup has it 3-4-5 higher for bush

[wli]

22. my guess is there's a larger coverup going on these days

The drops from "man on the street" observations are much larger than any of these polls indicate. I suspect they've ramped up the right-wing padding. I'd not be surprised to find things down to a fundie core of 15% or so plus maybe a little padding of confused/uninformed people of 5-10%.

[SpiralHawk]

14. drop...mostly among Republicans

the Times they are a changing

[mvd]

25. Usually by now, polls would be indicating a bump

I think unless things change in Iraq (they won't,) Bush is destined to stay in the 30s and 40s. I still can't believe he has 1% approval!

[mondo joe]

24. "Popular president has mandate with 40% approval!"

It's what I'm expecting to hear from the MSM.

[trogdor]

28. My prediction was 41%

I didn't think they'd actually touch the 40% line.

[rrrevolution]

29. repub spin "Bush Most Popular President To Poll 40% or Less"

Yep, he is plenty popular because he's the "****** President."

He don't look at polls.

[Roland99]

31. heh heh