Historically, presidents get a little boost in the polls after a State of the Union address. It makes some sense — the nation gets to hear a president’s pitch, while seeing him get rounds of applause.
Bush, however, manages to see his popularity drop after his SOTU.
It’s almost as if people can barely stand the thought of President Bush and Congress anymore. Bush reached his lowest approval rating in The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on Friday as only 30 percent said they like the job he is doing, including an all-time low in his support by Republicans….
Bush’s acceptance by his own party is at bottom in the AP-Ipsos poll. Just 61 percent of Republicans gave Bush positive reviews; his previous low was 65 percent last month. Only 28 percent of them expressed strong approval.
About one in 10 Democrats and three in 10 independents gave Bush positive marks.
A couple of weeks ago, White House officials were “predicting a remarkable poll shift to about 45 percent favorable by the time he leaves office next year.”
They’re off to a bad start.
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He’ll be rounding that out with another of his “heck of a job” tours of the recent disaster area in TN and other unfortunate southern states. Just what victims of a natural disaster need. An idiot on a photo op and his entourage causing more trouble than they’ve already got and leaving in his wake a whole lotta nothing.
“About one in 10 Democrats …gave Bush positive marks.”
They must have asked Joe Lieberman.
Time to wake up, their new reality has nothing to do with the reality most of us live in. Never has never will.
tjb @ 3:
So true. Every one of the congressonal and senate Republicans still votes in lockstep with Bush. They are the party of Bush. Remember that in November when you vote.
“the nation gets to hear a president’s pitch, while seeing him get rounds of applause.”
And that alone should make them like him better?
How very sad.
I would say Americans are sick and tired of both Bush and CONgress.
You just don’t get it. They don’t care about approval ratings. They want a SHATTERED UNION!
It’s great for business: http://money.cnn.com/magazines...../index.htm
I don’t know anyone who can actually sit and watch shrub speak.No One.
The spin cycle has already begun.
Bush and Mc Cain will continue to scare the masses with the “terrorists are coming to cut your heads of!!!!” strategy. McCain, Bush, Romney, Cheney are all using that rhetoric at CPAC. This AM on Morning Joe, Shuster asked Joe on the phone from FL if Romney went ove the top with the anti-Dem rhetoric at CPAC and tried to make the argument that we left the right war for the wrong war in Iraq. Joe went ballistic and he told David Shuster to shut up because it was his show and he wanted to talk. Mika groveled, Shuster fumed, and Pat Buchanan bloviated on whenever Joe wasn’t talking. The gist from Joe and Pat, the Republicans will win again because they will scare the public again as they did in 2002 and 2004. Do these numbers tell us otherwise?
This morning when bush was speaking to that large group of conservatives, he said that Cheney was the best vice president ever. I’m not kidding. He said it and the crowd cheered like they had just been given a new Hummer or some other kind of hummer.
I’ll be very happy if and when he leaves office, but I don’t think you would call that approval.
I’d be surprised if the numbers he is getting aren’t already bumped in his favor. I find it difficult to believe there are that many people still fooled by the idiot. I suppose there are those who are willing to call a turd a diamond because they believe the propaganda. That hating shrub is just giving osama what he wants SNARK! But other than that who the hell likes the worthless scumdrop other than his war profiteering cronies?
You would have to have a negative IQ to consider him anything but a horrible mistake and something we’ll all be better off without.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
Thanks P.O.P..
I saw that this mornin when I woke up………I wasn’t sure if I was having a bad dream…….ughhh….what a horrible way to start a day.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
The 30% was in that room yesterday.
More like a SNOTU.
Never underestimate the power of a good wiretap. I’m guessing Cheney has more dirt on these idiots than Brittany has DUIs.
Proud American Libera @ 4:
We don’t need to be reminded, but you might post this at Little Green Snot Balls.
What’s with all my mucous references today?
Internetjunkie @ 16:
Actually Britanny has a lot of IUD’s, she just can’t spell it.
I hope no one has forgotten that Shrub and Co. couldn’t care less about all this. After all, America was witless enough to vote for the little cretin not once but twice! Too little too late. He doesn’t care what any poll on the planet has to say about him. He’s won and he’s laughing all the way to the bank along with a get-out-of-jail-free card. THAT is a hardcore fact!
Yeah…Cheney best neocon fascist,corrupt,no bid contract givin,industrial strength shreddin,two faced,double talkin,back stabbin ,Republican VP in history.
I rather expect that the President’s approval ratings will be much higher one year from today. After all, we’ll have a different president. Bush’s ratings will slide into negative numbers.
If I were elected president, my first act would be to have Big W, Cheney, and the rest of the war criminals “extraordinarily rendered” to The Hague to be tried for war crimes. Unfortunately, while Republicans would do it in to an equally lawless Democrat in a minute, Democrats will want to be conciliatory to a bunch of thugs who interpret forgiveness as weakness.
I’m not sure he could pull a 45% approval rating even if they engineered a false-flag event to whip up some patriotic fervor.
Bush’s legacy will be the same as every other endeavor - three failed businesses (the last, Harken Energy, with likely but unproven insider trading) and mismanagement of a Major League baseball team.
And if you look at America as a business, we’ve doubled our debt (Iraq), lost assets from neglect and mismanagement (Katrina), and gutted our work force (3,950+ casualties). Yup, he’s running it just like a business … and he’s gonna skip out the door and laugh, leaving us to hold the bag.
Thanks, Harry & Nancy. Eight years of mismanagement is so much better than five-and-a-half.
MargeAggedon @ 12:
On Valentine’s Day, won’t you give someone special a gift they’ll treasure?
Remember, a “diamond” is forever …
Shadowgm @ 22:
I’ve been thinking the same thing for the last few days now..
We’re due for a terrrrrrrist alert……but I expect it closer to the general election…….boo
It’s almost as if people can barely stand the thought of President Bush and Congress anymore
IMPEACH & CONVICT! there is nothing left to discuss.
Can bush issue a pardon for himself and his gang before he leaves office? You know, in case someone actually tries to prosecute them in the future.
You want to find that 30% who still approve of him, listen to Washington Journal on C-span in the mornings. There are some total idiots out there in phone-in-land. One guy this morning was saying it didn’t matter what the dems said they would do about insurance and such, because if they get into office we will be to busy dodging terrorist bullets, shells and bombs to care about anything else.
This is truly a dark period for the United States.
Most Americans have no personal attachment to their government unless you are that 1% that have personal contact with your lobbyist.
The Mom & Pop Chamber of Commerce has been replaced by the Corporate Chamber of Commerce.
A majority in the SCOTUS believe that personal rights are trumped by corporate rights.
A President who believes that the 1% will share their wealth out of the goodness of their heart,(see trickle down economics)(see compassionate conservatism)???
C’mon you 30%ers, Why can’t you see through the thin veil protecting this B.S.? If you are not making more than $150,000 you are being left behind and you should know that the largest tax break in history went to the .6% who make more than $500.000, and you are paying almost twice a percentage of your earnings that that .6% make.
Wake up Repug supporters, you are being played for a fool.
mudshark @ 24:
Whenever Bush and Cheney leave DC at the same time is the time to worry about that suitcase hidden in Cheneys safe!!
I expect we’ll see a video from Osama sometime in the early fall saying that he looks forward to working with the democrats when they win the presidency. That will make all the crazies even crazier. He seems to always say the right thing to work for the republicans.
Also, it would not surprise me to hear that Osama has been captured, killed, or blown to smithereens.
OOPS! Next to last line should read……………..twice a percentage of your earnings than the .6% PAY.
I’m not concerned about before the election,But I wonder about after it.No ,I’m not trying to fear monger.
When Clinton took office,the WTC was hit.
When boosh stole the office,the WTC was hit.
Both times shortly after the election.
I dunno………..maybe it’s just me.
A couple of weeks ago, White House officials were “predicting a remarkable poll shift to about 45 percent favorable by the time he leaves office next year.”
I think they’re right. Leaving office will be the most popular thing he’s ever done.
Another lost opportunity
This would have been the perfect year to at least scale back the Nuremberg Rally excesses with which we stage the SOTU address, if not end the practice altogether and simply not make the venue of Congress (and all those Congresscritters as extras) available to the president for his propaganda fest. Washington and Lincoln were content to mail their SOTU messages to Congress, so it’s not as if withdrawing the free media opportunity would have been real-world unfair or demeaning to the just pretensions of the presidency. But we admittedly live in hype-world, and any habit, once established, is quickly perceived as the eternal and unchanging natural order of things, so scaling back would have to be done carefully and at the right moment. This year was that right moment, and we blew it.
mudshark @ 24:
A false flag would be best implemented after candidates have been nominated on both sides.
Though the endless smirk can simply be because he knows Harry & Nancy won’t lift a finger to hold him accountable for a damned thing.
Paraphrasing Stalin, “Fuck an intern, it’s a crime. Fuck over a country, it’s a statistic.”
Joementum @ 32:
Excellent!
This is very scary. About ten percent of the Democrats are insane.
When discussing the popularity of Congress, one should remember that we tend to think much more highly of our own representatives than we do of the institution as a whole. I think it is inaccurate to compare the popularity of Congress as a whole with a specific individual like George Bush.
Mike Mathers @ 37:
My Senator is Harry Reid. Guess again.
When you think about it, what has this administration done that is positive? War is hardly a positive, destroying the economy is not something you give someone kudos for. Dividing the hell out of the country is not a good thing either.
On Fox this morning they are talking about if the US pulls out of Iraq, Iran will feel emboldened. In other words they are basically saying what Mittens said yesterday. If a Dem wins in November it will give terrorist free rein.
I hope the fear factor doesn’t work again this election cycle, there is nothing productive about making a country feel fearful. That’s what got us in the mess we are now.
Funny how our Representatives in Congress and the present administration have interpreted “The Will of the People” to mean we are leaving everything to them.
xoites defends Constitution @ 36:
Or have learned to not take/make politics so intensely personal.
“Only 28 percent of them expressed strong approval.”
I believe Donald Rumsfeld refered to people such as those that still support Bush as “the dead enders”.
peaceful easy feeling @ 42:
Your right, removing Habeas Corpus, spying on Americans, illegal wars are nothing personal. Its just business.
xoites defends Constitution @ 44:
I could add to that list and make it complete but i have to go to work in an hour.
Mike Mathers @ 37:
While my own rep. is George Miller, Nancy Pelosi is the next district over. And California gave y’all Feinstein.
stash food , clothes , gold / silver , guns , RADIOS , med supplies , maps , get ready bush/chainy , will not leave office .
Votes , we dont need no stinking votes , we count them .
I’ve never been polled about anything even once. My thoughts count as much as my vote does (I live in Florida).
No America has a 30% quasi-fascist, bone dumb authoritarian block that will be screaming about their love of freedom while standing in line at a stop and frisk toll booth installed to save us all from the terrorists and their head-choppy ways.
That is the base the GOP loves to feed and nurture.
-GSD