RASMUSSEN POLL: Bush's Job Approval: 48%

Rasmussen Reports ^ | August 22, 2005

[new yorker 77]

Bush Job Approval at 48%

Forty-eight percent (48%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President.

[new yorker 77]

Liberal organizations continue to produce fake polls by oversampling Democrats.

The effect of Fake Sheehan news has faded.

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In the long run, Sheehan is a net negative for RATS.

[Paloma_55]

Hmmmmm... The headline could be "Bush approval ratings increase 20% in last two weeks!" since they had him at 40% a few weeks ago.

[atomicpossum]

Imagine where he'd be if gas prices were under $2/gal.

[sasafras]

Quite frankly Im surpised its that high - spending is through the roof, we need to get serious in Iraq and quit playing 'Vietnam' all over again and Bush claims he is serious about homeland security but refuses to enforce the border all while letting rapist, drug dealers, murderers and terrorists cross freely.

[Primetimedonna]

Isn't 48% higher than a lot of the recent polls? Maybe the tide is changing.

[new yorker 77]

RASMUSSEN-ELECTION DAY 2004: BUSH 50.2 - KERRY 48.5

ACTUAL ELECTION RESULT 2004: BUSH 50.8 - KERRY 48.3

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Presidential_Tracking_Poll.htm

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Any idea what sampling percentage Rasmussen uses? I don't suspect we will hear this report on MSM because they only tell about those over deomocrat sampled polls on thier networks.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Bush's domestic agenda is a shambles, the southern boarder is not secured, and he wants a guest worker program that officially opens the floodgates, SS reform is going nowhere, and he cant even issue an executive order to drill in Alaska due to the oil price emergency due to timidity. His administration is inept and he surrounds himself with incompetents. His pa was no better, he should have disposed Sadam in Gulf War I and this present day mess would be history.

Iran is being mishandled on a fundamental level. Should have been reconstuted as 3 nation, Kurdistan, Sunistan, and Shitistan instead of the feuding mess that is Iraq now. Our military is being bled by roadside IE's we have no deterrent for. The one bright spot is Afghanistan...and Assholma Abomination roams free still... Now I totally despise the demonrats so no sympathies there, and am surprised that the poll is that high...given the mediocre performance at hand..

[MikeA]

"Quite frankly Im surpised its that high - spending is through the roof, we need to get serious in Iraq and quit playing 'Vietnam' all over again and Bush claims he is serious about homeland security but refuses to enforce the border all while letting rapist, drug dealers, murderers and terrorists cross freely."

Or you could see the positive and say the economy is growing at rates meeting or exceeding the GNP avg. of the 90s, around 3.5%, we have full employment at 5%, 2 million jobs have been created in the last year alone, home ownership is up, federal taxes have been cut, deficits are down, education performance is improving, Homeland Security despite not fully clamping down the borders BUT HAVING IMPROVED THINGS WITH BORDER CONTROL FROM THE 90s have prevented further attacks on US soil for 4 years, etc. Why are some of you Bush bashers always intent on seeing only the negative? Is there any good Bush has done or is his record only entirely negative?

[Moral Hazard]

The unemployment rate is at 5% and economic growth is just under 4%. The approval rate should be higher, not lower.

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Today's poll includes both Saturday and Sunday. Weekend polls always have a few points of bias against Republicans. Sheehan is backfiring on the moonbat RATS.

[Coop]

Quite frankly Im surpised its that high - spending is through the roof, we need to get serious in Iraq and quit playing 'Vietnam' all over again and Bush claims he is serious about homeland security but refuses to enforce the border all while letting rapist, drug dealers, murderers and terrorists cross freely.

Perhaps you'd like to tell our troops in Iraq that they're screwing around and not being serious? The only thing remotely resembling Vietnam in this war are the public, clueless critics that would rather hear themselves howl than make life easier for our military personnel.

And if Bush is refusing to enforce the border and letting everyone cross freely, where are all those darned arrests coming from?

[Coop]

His administration is inept and he surrounds himself with incompetents. His pa was no better, he should have disposed Sadam in Gulf War I and this present day mess would be history.

Keep aspiring, Partner, because you ain't smart enough to be no hillbilly.

[Coop]

Weekend polls always have a few points of bias against Republicans.

Urban legend.

[longtermmemmory]

hmmm up from the 46% so this 48% poll is released on a monday?

hmmmm I wonder if we should just add 10 points across the board to compensate for bias.

[q_an_a]

Thank you. you covered all the bases. great comment. I'm with you. jobs, a republican congress + a real conservative is going on the court and the President does not buckle at some bad news.

[sasafras]

"And if Bush is refusing to enforce the border and letting everyone cross freely, where are all those darned arrests coming from?"

Obviously not from a border state are you?? Even the border patrol admits that it catches only a small percentage of those that are crossing - wake up and quit acting like a Bushbot. America is at risk and too many of the Bush brown nosers on here are enabling him to continue to put American families at risk all for big business profits.

[My2Cents]

Other than that, things are great!