Posted on 10/12/2005 8:31:55 PM PDT by counterpunch
Oct 12, 2005 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's job approval rating has fallen to a new low of 39 percent in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday.
Bush's approval rating dipped in the poll below a mid-September ranking of 40 percent. The survey also found only 28 percent of respondents believed the country was headed in the right direction, NBC reported.
Bush's political challenges have been piling up in recent weeks, from criticism over his handling of Hurricane Katrina, to growing unease over rising gas prices to conservative discord over the nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Many conservatives are outraged that Bush picked the White House insider with no judicial experience instead of a judge with clear-cut conservative credentials who could be counted on to move the high court firmly to the right.
Twenty-nine percent of people surveyed said Miers was qualified to serve on the highest court in the United States, while 24 percent thought she was not qualified and 46 percent said they did not know enough about her, NBC said.
The poll also found that strong majorities did not believe that recent charges against former House Republican leader Tom DeLay of Texas or a federal investigation of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, were politically motivated, NBC said.
DeLay has been indicted in Texas on money-laundering and conspiracy charges linked to campaign financing. Frist is being investigated over a stock sale.
With the 2006 congressional elections a year away, 48 percent of respondents said they preferred a Democratic-controlled Congress, compared with 39 percent who said they preferred Republican leadership, NBC said.
The 9-point difference was the largest margin between the parties in the 11 years the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll had been tracking the question, NBC said.
The poll of 807 adults was conducted from Saturday to Monday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points
Unless he dumps Cheney from the ticket (recycled sarcasm).
Looks like I was right - five points difference.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
The key loss is with Republicans. My guess is that his attempt to nominate a "moderate" justice torpedoed his approval ratings.
If you look at the ratings, they were starting to climb back into the upper forties/ fifties - but then the whole nomination thing hit.
instead of firing up his base, he lost at least ten, maybe twenty "approval" points from the base. Not smart.
Soon to replace "It's Bush's fault"
With, "It's Mclellon's fault".
I bet alot of the polls numbers have to do with conservatives unhappy with Bush and the Miers nod and the Katrina financing proposals.
I used to hate "polls." Now that there is such a huge selection of them to chose from, I don't hate them anymore. There's a "poll" for everyone! Take your pick!
LOL, You remember that too :-)
.000002% of the American population. Not even close to being valid.
The bleeding isn't going to stop until the Miers' nomination is pulled and a proven originalist put up her place. Further alienating the base will mean the numbers don't recover.
"The poll of 807 adults"
...........in midtown Manhattan.........during the weekend.....
ROFL!!! That is priceless!
At least they polled adults...
Hopefully more conservatives will begin to see the light and shun Bush and the Republicans.
I'm sure all the DUmmies that frequent FreeRepublic and refer to themselves as 3rd party conservatives are dancing over this...
The Liberal Strategy is now clear: keep the "Bush is hated all over the USA" drumbeat dripping daily by their MSM Propagandists, hoping that sets Democrats up as the "You HAVE to vote for us because our polling tells us you think Bush Sucks" alternative in forthcoming elections.
This sleight-of-hand is all they've got. Their real aim is to get away with "winning" by NOT presenting ideas, solutions or agendas. How many times has Rush recounted congressional Democrats recently meeting "behind closed doors" to "decide what they stand for" (which is code for "how can we plausibly deny or disguise what we REALLY stand for?").
The only question for conservatives is: can such a tactic weaken our resolve so as to stay home on election days?
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