Posted on 05/20/2004 9:42:21 AM PDT by veronica
Thursday May 20, 2004--After reaching its lowest level of the years in recent days, the President's Job Approval rating has moved back up to 52%. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove.
For most of April and May, the President's ratings have stayed at 51% or 52%. His numbers have fallen during periods of especially bad news from Iraq.
Several people have asked why the Rasmussen Reports Job Approval number is higher than some other reported figures. As with most polling questions, the answer can be found in the details.
For example, while it has been widely reported that Zogby finds the President's Approval rating at 42%, Zogby doesn't ask if people approve of the President's performance.
That firm asks people to rate the President's performance as Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor. They add the Excellent and Good figures together to get the total "positive" responses. That's a legitimate approach and one that we have used in the past.
However, it is not the same as the Job Approval question asked by others.
When the question is asked in that manner, the number saying good or excellent will almost always be five to ten percentage points lower than the number who say they approve of the President's performance.
Some other surveys have reported the President's Job Approval based upon samples of all adults which would also lead to a lower figure than our sample of Likely Voters.
More important than the specific number is the trend. All of the recent polls found that President's Job Approval hitting new lows following news of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse. It now remains to be seen whether the President is bouncing back from those lows.
The President's Job Approval ratings will be updated daily between now and the November election. Rasmussen Reports also provides daily updates on the Presidential race, the economic confidence of Americans, and the generic Congressional Ballot.
The national telephone survey of 1,500 Likely voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports over the past three nights. Margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
Daschle is deeply saddened.
Haha, nice to know that all their attacks only made a minor and temporary dent in Bush's approval. Them dems must be getting apoplectic.
One has to wonder also how many of those who said that Bush is doing only "fair" will vote for him in light of Kerry being such a pitiful joke..surely that could account for a few more percentage points.
Hallelooyah!
IMO if President Bush really stood up for what this country needs, his approval rating would probably drop to about 20 percent.
rasmussen machines acting up again
I participated in a Zogby poll today. :)
Proof that the ratmedia has once again over played it's hand. Thanks jerks, we couldn't be in command of this country without you - lovya boys, lovya!
As the deaths of the soldiers last month and the scenes of Abu Garib are delegated to the Internet, the sheeple easily influenced by day to day happenings go back to sleep.
Tony Snow was saying the same thing last night on The Factor. He said Bush will start doing exactly what you were saying.
In other words, the media is cooking the numbers to make Bush look bad...
I'm beginning to think that the media's anger with Enron wasn't the wrongdoing, but the fact that someone else decided to play with numbers... the media seems to think that their polls are the only venue where cooking numbers to generate a desired outcome is okay.
Even the reporterette on Fox said after the last press conference W had that he comes across as credible and connects well with the average voter.
Let's remember that the average voter is probably influenced more by what he/she sees in the last few weeks before the election. What happens right now is just jockeying for position.
W is going to mop the floor with the Poodle in the debates, and the Poodle won't even know it. Just like 2000.
Zogby on-line or telephone?
Works the just the opposite for Kerry.
It's not just keeping the public informed - the more often they're given a visual reminder of who the alternative to Kerry is, the better Dubya will do.
See him and see Kerry on the same day, Kerry's dead meat.
So true!! (we need more bush speeches)
The good news is the economy is expanding at a nice clip, the media's stories of the iraq chaos are abatting.
Qerry continues to be an ineffectual campaigner
and we will have a blow out on November 2.
I wonder if some people who who rate W's performance negatively want him to be more hawkish.
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