Will Bush's approval rating get below 40?

[Dawgs]

This guy is walking on a very thin rope. If the economy turns again, or if Iraq starts to get worse(after the elections), people's trust in this man will have to start going down. 2004 should have been a very bad year for Bush... and it would have been if Rove didn't have Kerry to distract most brain dead Americans. Now that Bush is basically on his own, things could get really get ugly.

There is a real possibility that on Jan. 20th Bush will have an approval rating around 45%. Not much of a mandate if you ask me.

If nothing else, this could be a very entertaining four years. Did anyone hear him in that press conference?

[goclark]

1. His ratings are probably at 30 now

Remember the MSM decides everything.
They just pick a number.
His real numbers are probably in the toilet already.

[lebkuchen]

8. Depends on America's tolerance threshold for its "heroism" definition

doesn't it?

[LibertyorDeath]

12. Exactly it's all bullshit smoke & mirrors the MSM is Pure Propaganda

[Telly Savalas]

19. If this is true...

then you'd think that one of the many liberal organizations out there would have conducted a poll demonstrating this. Why haven't they?

[Bluzmann57]

2. Maybe the question should be...

If his approval rating does drop below 40%, will the public know about it? Yeah Bush may be the lamest lame duck president ever, but you can be sure that rove has something up his sleeve to boost his boys approval rating again.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

3. Hell, yeah

And soon. Folks, we'll be getting to the point soon that the Freepers and Moronamurrikans are going to be told to shut the f*ck up every time they open their mouths to recite their talking points. Pretty soon both the economy and Iraq will be so bad that only the most blind, hateful or self-interested will be singing *'s praises. Expect them to get very shrill and desperate.

[Chipper Chat]

14. But, but % But # but @ BUtt - Bush is...... "Our Leader"

I saw it on a great big billboard along the interstate, so it must be true.

[quinnox]

4. By the time the next four years are over

I have a feeling Republican politicians who want to stay in power will be saying "Bush who?" They will drop him like a hot potato. Hell, Bush might be begging for an approval rating in the 40's, instead of 30's.

[Fovea]

5. Will it survive this spring's celebrity death match

with Delay, Hastert, and Frist?
Now that the Dems are officially Hors de Combat
It is time for The Night of the Long Knives.
Time for the SA to go.

You saw the prep for it in the cabinet shuffle, now watch the Congress slug it out with the Whitehouse.

Wanna see a model? If you are an oldster, think of the Democratic Party of 1968... only meaner, with less restraint.

[48pan]

6. Just Like Lyndon Johnson

Another friggin quagmire!

[saracat]

7. But Lyndon didn't run again. How do we get rid of this bastard?

[goclark]

11. Let the Rethugs get him and the neocons out

They are fools to let the neocons steal their party.

We are bigger fools to let him steal the election and roll over.

[48pan]

16. Run a Better Candidate Next Time

We lost because we had a wishy-washy candidate. He ran as a Viet Nam vet, not a Democrat. Dean would have won. He new what he stood for and would have caught the imagination of the world.

I can't agree with the people that say Bush stole Florida or Ohio. I knew a lawyer who went to Ohio to observe the election for Republican fraud. He came back saying that he saw none.

Bush didn't steal the election. He beat a bad candidate. We've got plenty of good people. Let's run one next time. What the hell happened in Iowa anyway? How did Kerry win the primary? I just don't get it.

[saracat]

18. Oh, God. This kind of thing almost makes me dislike Dean!

Some of his diciples make Dean look bad. They would have taken him apart for being a Doctor.You have no idea what they could come up with. They would have taken any candidate apart. All you have to do is look at what happened to Dean in the Primary.Sheesh ,he carried what ,only Vermont? And don't give me the annoited DLC crap.Dean was DLC as well and ,according to the Governor's association , the fifth most conservative governor in the nation. That was why I didn't support him. He was too conservative for me! But I still liked him. Some people make it difficult though!

[sonicx]

9. probably not. country's too divided

low 40s maybe. Bush would have to do something really bad (that can't be downplayed or ignored by the media) in order to go below 40.

[XemaSab]

28. There's been SO much stuff

That I figured couldn't POSSIBLY be downplayed or ignored, time and time again.

I'm at the point now where I'll believe it when I see it.

[salin]

10. Not "will", but "when"

they are pushing so arrogantly on policies that have direct negative consequences for so many people that the question isn't if - but when.

[gratuitous]

13. He. Doesn't. Care.

The only poll that mattered to Stupidhead is the one he rigged on November 2. Anything else doesn't matter, and he doesn't care. Mandate? Irrelevant. He'll forge ahead as if he has one, and who's going to stop him?

The Republicans? Hah! If they really gave a good goddam, they could stop him, but they surely haven't. Oh, they give a little lip service to the idea that Stupidhead is out of control, but that's just for public consumption.

The Democrats? It is to laugh.

The media? Stop it, you're killin' me!

Us, the little people? Well, only if the idea of catching a bullet becomes more attractive than the idea of that corrupt bastard continuing in office. Not likely to happen in the next four years, at least not in the numbers that will be necessary to oust this fraud.

[autorank]

15. That would mean truly below 30%...and, right, he doesn't care!

[Rambis]

17. If it does that means....

the economy gets even worse and a lot more americans coming home in boxes and no one wants that.

[proud patriot]

20. He will be the most dispised president in history before he's gone

History shall not be kind

[Placebo]

23. Really?

"For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years, George W. Bush..."

www.time.com

THESE people will write the History books, and they seem to be marching to the beat of the Rove-ian drum.

[okieinpain]

21. oh yeah. should be there before summer.

[Placebo]

22. No way.

If 44 percent of Americans want to see muslim american's civil rights taken away, that's pretty much bush's base, and i seriously doubt any of them will not be approving of his job.

[LynnTheDem]

24. It did last year; 39%

Which only lasted until the next poll, but yep the bastard's already broken the 30s and guaranteed he will do again. Not in the next 3 weeks, imo, but at some point over the year he will.

[LynnTheDem]

25. Poll; August 16-18, 2004 Job approval rating for bush

39%

Do you approve or disapprove of the way President George W. Bush is handling his job as president?

Approve 39%
Disapprove 55%

http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/YouGovG.pdf

bush WILL break the 30s again. Guaranteed.

[FlaGranny]

26. It blows my mind that

*'s ratings are not under 20 percent.

[DaveinMD]

27. 40 is as low as these ratings usually get

40 percent of any poll are usually hard core Dems or Repubs. Its hard to poll below that number.

[NVMojo]

29. one can only hope and dream those in the darkness will come into

the light ...