Posted on 06/27/2006 5:28:50 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
President Bush's approval rating has gone from 33% to 38% this month in the latest ABC/Washington post poll.
And while he's still not over 40%, the survey finds that Republicans seem to be more supportive of Bush now, with 82 percent of all Republicans saying the president is doing a good job, as well as 78% of moderate Republicans, who had supported Bush at only a 57 percent rate in May.
However, of those who disapprove of the president, a new high of very nearly half of those polled disapprove "strongly," writes ABCnews.com.
By contrast, the Democrats have lost a lot of ground this month, with the death of terrorist Abu musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq. The poll found that the Democrats' lead on "trust to handle Iraq" was cut in half, and that the GOP has regained the public's trust on protecting the U.S. from terrorism by a 7 percentage point margin.
56 percent or respondents see the war in Iraq as part of the war on terrorism, and 57 percent think the war on terrorism is going well overall.
Also with regard to Iraq, 64 percent of those polled said Bush lacks a clear plan of what to do in Iraq. But 71 percent, say the Democrats also lack a clear plan.
"86 percent approve of the way U.S. forces are handling their jobs in Iraq; 61 percent approve strongly," wrote ABC News.
This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone June 22-25, 2006, among a random national sample of 1,000 adults. The results have a three-point error margin.
BTTT
Hey NY Times, keep it up and Bush will be up in the 70's!
Rasmussen:
Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President.
Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.
Just 18% of Americans Strongly Approve of the job the President has been doing. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove. Weak as those numbers are, they reflect a modest improvement over recent months. Earlier, the number who Strongly Disapproved had been as high as the mid-40s.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
The President could cure cancer and the MSM would construct a poll to make it seem like a bad thing.
Like this:
Poll question: Was the President purposely not revealing his cancer cure treatment until the Nov 2006 election to give the GOP a lift in the polls?
Answer: Yes, Maybe, Rove knew.
He was of course never all that low. He's probably been at around 50% all along, now climbing a bit above that. Three issues will keep him from very high levels IMO (even if the polls were fair)...illegal immigration (he's blamed for this decades-old issue?!), gas prices, and the perceptions of the war.
So they changed the formula, who cares. The President is doing a great job and America knows it.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Never fear, the MSM will get right one it and W will be blamed for snow and ice in winter, heat in summer, Dutch Elm Disease, obesity, cancer, terrorism, poverty, hunger, the price of a gallon of gasoline, and the common cold.
sorry - get right on it.
They do not measure Bushes approval rating, they measure how effective the propaganda has been,
In this case the propaganda of the MSM has not been as effective as before, and now the MSM are looking for new delights with which to regale an American public that is getting quite ho hum about anything the MSM slimes say.
The saturation and emotional leash jerking invoked by the MSM has finally begun to wear tediously on America, to the point where a mans bottle of Viagara in his luggage has become national news. Next thing it will be toilet paper or beano.
What a LAUGH the MSM is!
And the polls? Not to be taken too seriously, our nation supports its president as you could see by the constituent response to the Dems when they tried to introduce troop withdrawal legislation which was voted down in a bi-partisan manner, after the dems conferred with their own constituents! Thats a poll that counts, and it showed the Pres running at over 60% on the Kerry troop withdrawal issue.
On ABC Radio yesterday both George Stephanopolous and Ann Compton described the 5% increase in Bush's approval as "inching upwards." They both used that phrase so you knew that'd be the meme for the day at ABC. Under Clinton or any other leftist president, ABC would describe a 5% increase in approval as "soaring."
Two can play that game!(sorry had to!).
I fail to see how NYT's leaking national security secrets push W's ratings up. Personally, I don't care about W's ratings. He's not running.
I'd prefer to see W and Congress enforce the laws of the United States and stop spending like drunken sailors. IMOHO
There are two areas that I would give him a failing grade.
I'm sure we'll be buffeted by a bunch of stories from the MSM that trumpt the fact that Bush's numbers are rising, now--NOT!
Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't this a 15% jump; i.e. 5 over 33?
I think Bush is doing very well overall, especially considering all that's going on.
"Hey NY Times, keep it up and Bush will be up in the 70's!"
"I fail to see how NYT's leaking national security secrets push W's ratings up. Personally, I don't care about W's ratings. He's not running.
I'd prefer to see W and Congress enforce the laws of the United States and stop spending like drunken sailors. IMOHO"
I think it stands to reason that the President and the GOP benefit when their enemies (NYTimes, democrats et.al.) overreach. Whether it be the NY Times allowing our enemies to know our vital national security secrets or John Murtha saying that "America is the greatest threat to whirlled peas," Most commentators and pundits agree that the President is strengthened whenever the debate centers around our national security. Even the RATs understand that, and that's why they fear some of the loose cannons in their own RAT caucus.
And considering the LameStream Media's way of polling, I'd add another 7 to 10 points. At least.
I played around with the numbers a bit. If you assume that 25% of the nonrepublicans approve, then the Republicans make up 22.5% of the sample. If you assume that 20% of the others approve, then the Republicans make up 30% of the sample. Of course, my math could easily be off.
Exactly right! Using a voice recording for each question keeps the infliction of the voice the same for each person. And Rasmussen polls every day which allows them to do a 3 day rolling average to eliminate outliers and random noise. They also take a larger sample than most polls.
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