Posted on 05/18/2006 10:55:41 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
New York voters who gave George Bush soaring 82 percent approval ratings in 2001 have turned their backs on the president, with only 22 percent now saying they approve of the way he's doing his job.
The precipitous drop comes at a time when the president is seeking support in Congress for his immigration reform initiatives – and during an election year when immigration will be a key issue in many congressional districts.
The president's handling of the war met with the disapproval of 74 percent of respondents, with 67 percent saying going into Iraq was a mistake. Despite the overwhelming anti-war sentiment reflected in the poll, only 39 percent of voters were willing to call for a complete removal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Broken down by party, Bush could claim support from 50 percent of Republicans, 19 percent of independents and 8 percent of Democrats.
"President Bush just keeps going down-down-down in this oh-so-blue state. You have to wonder at what number he hits bottom," said Maurice Carroll, Director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
In 2001, the Quinnipiac poll gave Bush an 82 percent approval rating.
While the poll, a survey of 1,154 New York State registered voters, conducted from May 8-14 by Quinnipiac University, was taken before the president addressed the nation earlier this week on the subject of immigration, it reflects the dwindling political capital he brings to the contentious issue that deeply divides his party and the nation.
President Bush at the border
Bush, speaking in Yuma, Ariz., yesterday, again reiterated his proposals for 6,000 National Guard troops on the U.S.-Mexico border to assist the Border Patrol, more detention facilities, a guest worker program, tamper-proof ID cards and program for the millions of illegal immigrants, already in the U.S., to earn citizenship.
According to the Rasmussen poll released two days ago, only 39 percent of Americans were in agreement with the president following his televised speech earlier this week on the immigration issue. An equal number opposed his approach. Among Republicans, only 60 percent stood with Bush. Forty-seven percent said they did not believe his proposals would work.
Additionally, according to Rasmussen, support for Democrat congressional candidates jumped 5 percent over a week before following the speech and only 58 percent of conservatives said they would vote for the Republican candidate.
WorldNetDaily readers, responding to a WND Daily Poll following the president's speech, were overwhelmingly negative in their appraisal of the president's proposals.
well the 82% number is a post-9/11/01 number, so I would be more interested in his 9/10/01 NY number.
If you get the right spin on the question in the poll then you can get higher poll numbers for even Saddam over Bush.
If you set up the game, rules, who you ask and results, you will probably get the outcome you want all the time.
Would it be accurate? No, only for the one manipulated small group you created.
But, these days papers create news with polls to make money, so don't be so surprised by this.
I don't think President Bush's nationwide numbers are at 22%.
We should start a pool, when will Bush hit negative poll numbers? -23% disapprove.....
the way the article is written it sounds like the author is biased against the war.
78% Ignorant
Saddam Hussein is a victim of the foreign policies of George W. Bush in their minds. The Democrats never miss an opportunity to say that Saddam had no WMD's, or that Saddam was trying to comply with the U.N. Demands, and that George W. Bush was only going after Saddam Hussein because he tried to kill his father
Low poll numbers in New York...what a shock!!!!
Maybe when they vote more than once and ask the dead.
;-)
Well Zogby is still a Muslim connected pollster.
There is no love in the rest of the press for him, so I would say his chances of reelection in 2008 are nonexistent.
They would probably go so far as to fabricate the whole thing and not bother to take the data in.
Registered Democrats are about 64% of New York state's electorate.
Seniority and for surviving cancer I would think. He acts like he has mad cow though.
Bush received 40% of New York state's vote in 2004. It's possible that the survey oversampled Democrats.
Remember the phone call ins? For example, just before the first Reagan election - all the polls said he would loose 2 to 1.
Then came the phone in poll, where people themselves could call in and vote - and they did, by the millions. It said: yes, 2 to 1 - FOR Reagan - and that's the way it went.
We need to get the RNC to conduct a phone IN poll- I'll guarantee it will blow these phony pools out of the water
I can't wait for the MSM to tell me his approval rating has gone negative.
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