Posted on 10/14/2005 8:50:55 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Despite the fact President Bush's job approval ratings have dropped to the lowest point of his presidency, they still remain higher than the low-point ratings of the last seven presidents, including his predecessor Bill Clinton.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows Bush's job approval at 38 percent.
"President George W. Bush's poll numbers are going from bad to worse," said the Pew report. "His job approval rating has fallen to another new low, as has public satisfaction with national conditions, which now stands at just 29 percent. And for the first time since taking office in 2001, a plurality of Americans believe that George W. Bush will be viewed as an unsuccessful president."
Data from six polling organizations in October show an average of 39.5 percent job approval for Bush.
But according to the Gallup Organization, that's a higher mark than the low points for all commanders in chief dating back to Lyndon Johnson in the mid 1960s.
The low points for recent commanders in chief are as follows:
Bill Clinton: 37 percent
George H. W. Bush: 29 percent
Ronald Reagan: 35 percent
Jimmy Carter: 28 percent
Gerald Ford: 37 percent
Richard Nixon: 24 percent
Lyndon Johnson: 35 percent
To find presidents with higher low-point approval ratings than Bush, one has to go back to John Kennedy at 56 percent, and Dwight Eisenhower at 48 percent.
The Power Line blog notes: "The reality is that the Republican base is holding remarkably firm, in the face of a media onslaught against the Bush administration that has no parallel in modern history, and following months of little but bad news: gas prices, hurricanes, and casualties in Iraq (the only news most people hear from that part of the world)."
President's 'terrible' rating better than last 7
Odd. I was told just this week by a staunch Bush supporter that WND lies and is run by leftist.
And they claim the former rapist-in-chief had approval ratings in the 90 % range WHILE HE WAS BEING IMPEACHED
Don't tell the folks at FNC
With this presidential term, the media has given up even pretending to be unbiased.
There's plenty of time left for him to set a new low. He's working hard at it, it's tough work.
I love the truth.
BTW, I've developed a hypothesis for determining what the truth is based on MSM reports. I take 90% of what they say, determine the opposite, and figure that (the opposite) is closer to the truth. It's not a new law of the universe yet but it is a darn good hypothesis so far.
RULE 1: Never trust the PEW research polls
RULE 2: Always refer to Rule 1.
I keep hearing that he isnt a conservative, so please define your version of conservativism that every conservative must be .
Reality check. Reagan and Clinton had solid recoveries in their job approval ratings. The others didn't. Two term Presidents who fullfill their terms have that tendency. JFK was a martyr and Ike was another two term winner as POTUS. LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter ansd Bush41 were failures for one or more reasosns.
And just think how his ratings can go no lower. The uber-cons are the last identity group that Bush can lose. And he has already lost them.
The uber-cons have already shot their wad against Bush over the Miers nomination, and they seem unable to persuade anyone else but themselves about how bad Bush is.
So there's no where else to go but up for Bush's ratings.
There opinion pieces are generally anti-Bush and staunch paleo-con and generally there pieces are mostly fluff and spin, when there is facts to back up there info then you can accept or disprove them with a reasonable amount of comfortability. Leftist? No.
It was ever thus, the leftist media and their leftist cohorts in the congress are on a mission to destroy our republican presidents by any means necessary.
Lies are the usual method.
"Jimmy Carter 28%"--what amazes me, is that it ever got that high for him. I still can't figure out how he got elected in the first place, after all these years.
WND was merely quoting a leftist polling outfit named Gallup. Even Gallup cannot fudge the numbers all that much, so these leftists had to reveal that Bush's low point is no where near as bad as the low points for the past seven presidents.
The commie MSM supporting their demo-daddies. 100% true. I refuse to watch TV any more. Even on sports shows, weather shows, etc., they take that 5 seconds to blame something on Bush.
You didn't ask me, but I'd say any president who expands entitlement programs and the size of government (at least, aside from constitutionally authorized areas such as national defense) is not a conservative. Also, any president who signs bills abridging the freedom of speech is not a conservative.
Give him a few more months. He is acting like he is shooting for the alltime record.
On a brighter note, he will squint a lot, smile, and talk about 'freedom.' :-)
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