29 aproval for Bush

[nadinbrzezinski]

he did it boys and girls...

He managed to get under the 30% before the election, or so said CNN when I was passing by, CNN\Newsweek poll

Yep I stopped, and smiled

The Liar in Chief is now UNDER nixon territory... but the complicit media just goes on and on as to how great he is as a pres... so tell me about that damn Lib'ral media again

[tritsofme]

1. Newsweek has him at 35%

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/archive/?poll_id=19#data

About a stones throw away from under 30% land however.

It does say that only 29% of the people are satisfied with the country's direction however.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15557264/site/newsweek/page/2/

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. As I said I was passing by

this 29% is historically low...

We should be so proud of the liar in thief

;-)

(for any FRR lurkers... it was funny to see the "liberal Press" try to spin this...

[Hekate]

3. All this year, dropping like a stone. No one deserves it more than the Faux Cowboy

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

May Bush and all his cronies live to feel the full shame of their disgrace as the Worst Administration in American History.

Hekate

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. They already have

this is well under Nixon... even in his worst did not reach under the 30%

[texasleo]

4. that's with strong GOP support. his #'s among indies and Dems

must be in the teens.


YIKES!

[neoblues]

6. Whatever the polls report...

if they screened their respondents for basic rationality, contact with reality, decency or humanity... Shrub's approval numbers would be approaching zero.

Of course, their polls were designed (not really, but read on...) so as to measure nothing but static selections associated with just a handful of choices... for instance:
1. strongly approve,
2. greatly approve,
3. mostly aprove,
4. approve,
5. slightly approve,
6. kind of approve,
7. sort of approve,
8. hatefully/mindlessly/irrationally/STUPIDly disapprove...

Note the seven "approve" choices are rolled up into the three existing "appove" categories ("strongly approve", "mostly approve" and "somewhat approve") versus the singular choice offered to indicate one doesn't approve--a choice with adverbs that imply the respondent is hateful, mindless, irrational, stupid--so 'embarrassing' sounding that surely nobody would choose it. Hence we see the Republican polling guidelines that are probably followed by all the major polling companies... Okay, perhaps not, but I wouldn't put it past them.

Still, if they designed a poll to measure people's estimation of shrub's performance on a scale of -1000 to +1000, I'm betting that even if they didn't apply any of the above mentioned filters/requirements (rationality/humanity/etc), given such a scale, Shrub would score well in to the negative regions! All but the most die-hard Republicans would be giving him scores between 30 and 100 points positive while everybody else would be reporting between -1000 and -50, as in below zero! In fact, with 65-70% returning below zero numbers--and many, many of them at or near the full -1000, he'd end up with a final score between -500 and -800... That would show a more accurate picture for sure.

If they added a multiplying or "weighting" that measured the emotional intensity of how strongly the respondent felt about their answers, Shrub's numbers would be even more negative--since so many people have such an intense sense of outrage at how incredibly, unbelievably, unforgivably and criminally terrible/awful Shrub's performance has been, that their intensity would blow away the Republican's luke-warm esteem for their President and magnify the already heavily negative numbers. Ahhh, if only... but even if a reputable firm did such a poll... (a) the M$M wouldn't report it or would downplay it, and (b) even if it got reported, Republicans would neither be able to understand it nor believe it--they'd just say it was a liberal trick or a fluke, but... we'd understand it, and we'd know it was the truth, wouldn't we!

[Old and In the Way]

7. Pretty impressive, when you think about it.

This guy ignores 9/11 warnings and has a 90% approval right after that horrible day. He's shed 67% of those people since then. In 5 years. That's really hard work. If you look at the trendline in the aggregated polling....he's on a trajectory to be under 20% by the time he exits in 2008...assuming, of course, he lasts that long.

I wonder how Cheney's numbers are? He was at 19% a year or so ago...I wonder if the VP of face shooting is in the single digits yet?

[magellan]

9. He was at 18% in March this year

After the hunting "accident". Can't find anything more recent, but I only skimmed.

[blm]

19. I knew people would say ENOUGH of the lying and distortion.

The focus on Iraq and Bush's abuse of the troops yet again for political gain are just the final straw for so many people.

Last week BACKFIRED on them.

[Raine]

8. Whoa

he has even lost the "dirty thirty percent" :wow: I didn't think that was possible for a repig to do even if they ate a baby in front of a crowd. :yoiks:

[Azathoth]

10. He's not at 29% -- that was his all time low

He's back to 40% in the latest polling.

[intheflow]

14. In what poll?

[Azathoth]

31. Here

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

(When I posted last night, the latest poll was the ABC poll).

[and-justice-for-all]

11. Stick a fork in him(them)....he's(they're) DONE! ...nt

[Disturbed]

12. His real approval rating is 25%.

Yeah, 25% of Americans are just plain STUPID!

[and-justice-for-all]

13. Stupid and delusional....nt

[elehhhhna]

15. Correction : they meant 29 people, not 29 percent.

carry on.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. That's what happens when he travels around the country stumping

for candidates. People get to see how IGNORANT and INCOMPETENT the IDIOT really is!

29%???:rofl::rofl::rofl: So, is this part pf KKKRoves 72 hour GOTV??:rofl::rofl:

[mom cat]

17. Party time!

Then we reconsider what we consider "authoritative sources"!

[Jacklyn75]

18. I think he's been below 29 percent for a long time...

but it's nice to see CNN admitting it! Oh and the so called liberal media is one of the biggest lies of our life time! They all fall in step with the GOP! Period!

[helderheid]

20. oh HELL yea!

[Tuesday_Morning]

21. Miami Herald

had a color, full-page picture of him smiling in Sunday's paper with the headline: Optimist-in-Chief. Another story was: Mood of voters unpredictable. Yeah, right. Not so unpredictable.

Day after the 2004 sElection their headline was: No Doubt This Time.

Manipulative rag.

[Hubert Flottz]

22. The more he gets out in public and campaigns the more people

despise him. People don't like being lied to.

[Arugula Latte]

23. Coincidentally, that's also his IQ. nt

[mistertrickster]

24. Greatest page and no links?! . . . c'mon, people, we're not FReepers

On edit: we're the "fact based" community, remember.

Throwing numbers around is meaningless without the links telling us who and when.

Thank you,

The Management

[Jack Rabbit]

27. I second the question

Link, please.

It's good news if true, but if it comes from an online poll at Democrats.com, I may tend to be skeptical.

[Bluebear]

28. I saw it on CNN this morning as well

hence it's very difficult to provide a link to a television set.

[Delphinus]

25. Kick,

'cause I just read on top of this board it was 45.

[mistertrickster]

26. That's not anywhere close to right. Sorry, I wish it were. Here are the

latest poll numbers.

Notably, President Bush's political standing has improved in the final week before the election. Bush's job approval rating among registered voters has risen from 37% in early October, to 41% in the current survey. Mirroring the GOP's gains among independent voters, Bush's rating among this crucial group of swing voters now stands at 35%, its highest point this year

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=295

*****

It was down all year and then it "peaks" right at election time, then it goes back down.

Can't explain it, but that's exactly what happened in 2004.

Gee, maybe the Democrats of which I am a proud member should actually

1. give people something to vote for

and

2. get the media attention needed to get the message out.

For instance, we here at DU were screaming last summer for a Democratic mid-term convention. Did we get one? Nah . . . business as usual in Washington.

Quick, what is the number one priority the Dems have if they regain the Congress?

You don't know, do you? Why? Because there isn't one.

That's not the way you win elections.

[mistertrickster]

29. Pollkatz's poll of polls shows approval at about 37 percent on ave.

Oops, I thought I was linking and it posted the graph. Oh, well . . .

[Bluebear]

30. Okie dokie

[mistertrickster]

32. It is possible to link to a TV show if you have access to Lexis/Nexis.

Fortunately, I do.

Here's what I dug up--

CNN.com

November 6, 2006 Monday 7:52 AM EST

SECTION: POLITICS

LENGTH: 238 words

HEADLINE: Poll: Bush approval rating dips to 35 percent

DATELINE: WASHINGTON

BODY:


President Bush's popularity has dipped to 35 percent, according to a new CNN poll, with 41 percent of likely voters saying their disapproval of his performance will affect their vote in Tuesday's elections for control of Congress.

Sixty-one percent of the 1,008 adult Americans who responded to the Opinion Research Corp. poll said they disapproved of the way Bush is handling his job as president, according to the survey. The poll was conducted by telephone Friday through Sunday.

This finding represents a two-point decline in Bush's approval rating compared with a CNN poll conducted a week earlier. The decline is within the poll's sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The new approval rating is four points lower than a survey taken two weeks ago.

In the latest poll, 41 percent of likely voters said they would be sending a message about their disapproval of Bush when they vote Tuesday. Another 42 percent said their opinion of Bush is not a factor in their congressional voting, while 16 percent said they would be sending a vote of support for Bush when they cast ballots Tuesday.

. . .

LOAD-DATE: November 6, 2006

[Canuckistanian]

33. Ah, the backwash

I wouldn't drink it.