Poll: Groups Unhappy With Bush Performance = 28% approval

[tocqueville]

By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
42 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush's political coalition are worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance, an AP-Ipsos poll found.

That unease could be a troubling sign for a White House already struggling to keep the Republican Party base from slipping over Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Gulf Coast spending projects, immigration and other issues.

"Politically, this is very serious for the president," said James Thurber, a political scientist at American University. "If the base of his party has lost faith, that could spell trouble for his policy agenda and for the party generally."

Only 28 percent say the country is headed in the right direction while two-thirds, 66 percent, say it is on the wrong track, the poll found.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051008/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_ap_poll

[mike_c]

1. not really much to rejoice about here, really...

...since those folks would be utterly apoplectic if the country actually was on the "right track."

[melody]

3. lots of southerners are as concerned as we are about the RW

Most of my family (ich ben eine hillbilly) wants nothing more than to see these monsters driven from office.

[Skittles]

7. yeah NOW lots of southerners say they're concerned

it took high gas prices to get most of them on board.....I see it with the people I work with.....a war based on lies was A-OK and they made excuses for Katrina but HEAVEN FORBID it cost 71 bucks for these assholes to fill their trucks :puke:

[melody]

8. Are you trolling...surely you don't believe this

I have southern relatives who worked HARD for John Kerry. Millions of southerners did. There is a long and loyal truly Democratic tradition going back hundreds of years in the south - Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are ALL southerners.

[Skittles]

10. there's always exceptions which is why sterotyping sucks

I know that as a Dem living in Texas - I am just telling you the sentiment of MOST OF THE PEOPLE I KNOW HERE

[melody]

11. My family's partly from Texas

You should move where they are. lol Most of the people they know in San Antonio are Democrats. In fact, most high profile Texans are Democrats. Don't worry, there are plenty of sane southerners.

[Skittles]

14. I live in north Texas

not many around these parts

[Erika]

2. W has sold us down the track to being a banana republic

No secret. He gives tax breaks to the rich. Why do you think he was originally (s)elected. I still see right winger wealthy business owners being promoted for gifts to the food bank when they don't pay their own employees a living wage.

[Gronk Groks]

4. Read the whole article!!! It's his BASE that is beginning to...

...disintergrate! We already have virtually the entire Progressive and Independent block with us. If he starts losing his Base he has nothing except the wealthy 1% that his tax cuts made extremely wealthy.

[expatriot]

5. "Direction of country" poll is not presidential approval.

the article says 28% agree with direction country is going which is different question than asking whether you approve of the job the president is doing.

[orwell]

6. Do you think

any of them gives a rat's ass. They have three more years baby. By the time they are done, it will be too late to stop the hurricane.

The time to give a shit was on voting day of 2004. Diebold took care of that.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Bush doesn't do polls. He's not worried.

:rofl:

[cassiepriam]

12. He could care less about polls.

The press in his pocket, elections rigged, his friends all getting rich, why worry?

[B Calm]

13. I had a dream in my sleep last night. A reporter in my dream

ask Bush: Mr. President, what do you think of your recent poll numbers?

Bush: Polls go up, polls go down, who looks at polls?

Reporter: Maybe you should. There are 15 million people protesting in the streets of Washington DC and all them are demanding that you resign. Your approval rating is 17%!

Hell I woke up laughing!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Press rebelling, elections getting harder to rig, rich friends rebelling.

[cassiepriam]

17. He still has everything HE wants....that is all he has ever worried about.

[OnionPatch]

16. I take a little pleasure in this

but mostly just for spite, because I don't see it as a plus for our side, exactly. They're upset with Bush because Miers isn't conservative ENOUGH! Some of them are upset about his handling of the Iraq war because they think he should give it all we have and NUKE them! They're selfishly pissed about gas prices but still give not a thought about the corporate corruption, poverty and injustices going on in our country and the world at the hands of their Republican heroes. I hate to piss on the parade. Sorry. Just feeling frustrated and angry at them, as usual.