Public Voices Doubts On U.S. Mideast Role: Poll Finds Blame for Israel, Palestinians

Washington Post ^ | April 23, 2002 | Richard Morn and Claudia Dean

[DrDeb]

Today's Washington Post/ABC News poll indicates that President Bush still enjoys a 78% approval rating -- unchanged during the last month!! 81% support his campaign against terror; 70% support his conduct of foreign affairs; and 64% support his management of the economy (up 2% from January). I view these numbers as incredibly positive given the level of criticism that President Bush has received lately from Democrats (particularly those already running for the 2004 nomination) and their pandering buddies/buddiettes in the media. BOTTOMLINE: 8 out of 10 Americans STILL approve of this president's job performance!!! NOTE: Any movement in the President's ...

[looney tune]

Whoo Hoo! Great news. The base is alive and well. (sorry gloom & doomers)

[chris_in_nj]

SCHWING!!!

[anniegetyourgun]

Welcome to FR today, but I believe this account has already been posted.

[Texaggie79]

is that a wrong link or did they pull the article?

[tomahawk]

But how can this be? The world's best pollster (sarcasm), John Zogby, says that Bush's support is now "only" 69%.

[Howlin]

They could be putting up there new pages for tonight; it's about time.

[Howlin]

Apparently Zogby knows not of which he polls.

[rbmillerjr]

If you read the article closely, you'll see that approval is a nice little indicator of general approval. But the real polls say that even right now Bush and Gore are both locked at 44%.

An active or disinterested base will win or lose the next election.

[Pokey78]

Corrected link

[deport]

Post-ABC Poll: War on Terror/Middle East/Catholic Church

Monday, April 23, 2002

The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll is based on telephone interviews with 1,207 randomly selected adults nationwide and was conducted April 18 - 21, 2002. The margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus 3 percentage points. Sampling error is only one of many potential sources of error in this or any other public opinion poll. Interviewing was conducted by TNS Intersearch of Horsham, Pa.

*= less than 0.5 percent

1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president? Do you approve/disapprove strongly or somewhat?

            ---------Approve---------   --------Disapprove-------     No 
            NET   Strongly   Somewhat   NET   Strongly   Somewhat    opin.
4/21/02     78       47         31      20       10          9         2

[looney tune]

Fox did a piece tonight on the migration of Jewish voters to the right because of the President's handling of the Israel/Palestine crisis. This could get interesting.

[July 4th]

Perhaps this poll is a nice kick in the groin for Zogby.

[Johnny Shear]

I can't help but chuckle...

We (Freepers) are bashing John Zogby (Rush's Boy) and praising The Washington Post and ABC (DEATH TO THE LIBERAL SATANS!!)??????

Don't get me wrong, I am purging Zogby's numbers and inserting these myself...I just found it ironic...

[rbmillerjr]

Fox did a piece tonight on the migration of Jewish voters to the right because of the President's handling of the Israel/Palestine crisis

Bush had done better lately...but he is still wide open for a left hook by the Dums on this issue. Miraculously, the Dums cant box.

[bluefish]

Maybe Zogby just thought that 69% was a funny number. He was probably doing a Beavis & Butthead style laugh as he made it up and typed it into his computer.

[bluefish]

I personally believe that they are all bogus.

[Mo1]

Maybe Zogby will blame it on a typo

[Mo1]

Fox did a piece tonight on the migration of Jewish voters to the right because of the President's handling of the Israel/Palestine crisis. This could get interesting.

Yep I saw that .. 85% were in favor of President Bush

Will explain the whining coming from the DNC

[Dales]

Hardly. Polls show Bush beating Gore by upwards of 25 points. And not just one polling company. Pretty much all of them.

But don't let me get in the way of you just making stuff up.