35% TIME/ 36% CBS/ 37% Gallop - New Polls For Bush

[kpete]

35% TIME poll

A spate of good news at home and abroad has so far failed to boost how Americans feel about President Bush's job performance. Bush's approval rating slipped to 35% in a TIME poll taken this week, down from 37% in March (and 53% in early 2005). Only 33% of Americans in the survey said they approved of Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq, vs. 35% in March, and 47% in March 2005. His management of the U.S. economy lost supporters, too, as 36% approved, compared with 39% three months earlier. Bush's handling of the war on terror saw a slight gain in support, from 44% to 45%.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1209851,00.html

36% CBS

Bush Approval Doesn't Budge
A new CBS News poll shows President Bush's approval rating at 36%, unchanged from last month, despite news of a foiled terrorist plot last week.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/AUGA-AM.pdf

37% GALLUP NEWS SERVICE

PRINCETON, NJ -- The latest Gallup Poll finds George W. Bush's presidential job approval rating at 37%, consistent with recent polling. His approval rating has bounced between 36% and 40% since early June, after hitting a personal low of 31% in May.

http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=24118

[Virginia Dare]

1. I must have missed something...

what was the spate of good news at home and abroad?

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. My thought exactly. What good news?

People seem to have totally forgotten when things were really good - like before December 2000.

[speedoo]

6. Yeah, I missed the "spate" as well.

I guess we both hate Amurica, huh?

[Marr]

7. Apparently, terrorism is now considered good news for George.

You know- that whole British alleged terror plot the media's been crowing about for a week.

[Bumblebee]

27. It's an old poll -- from June. Good news was Karl Rove's non-

indictment and the killing of al-Zarqawi. Click on the link.

[senseandsensibility]

11. beat me to it!

The spinning of the corporate media never, ever stops.:puke:

[davekriss]

19. Haven't you heard?

Hezbollah was defeated! The chimp said so himself just yesterday. Another "Mission Accomplished"!


(Gawd 2009 can't come soon enough!)

[Virginia Dare]

21. In his twisted delusional world, that is the truth....

and there is no civil war in Iraq. :crazy: :dunce:

[napi21]

2. COME ON 20'S!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if 80+ days (till the Nov. elections) is enough time to see him polling in the 20's, but I'll keep hoping!!!!!

[Jawja]

9. * will never

be in the 20s. If an illegal and disasterous foreign occupation, the gutting of the 4th Amendment, the outing of an undercover CIA agent and her network, and the war crimes committed by this THUG in office cannot bring his numbers below 33-38% (depending on the poll), NOTHING will.

Just my two cents. ;-)

edited for spelling.

[napi21]

17. Hmmm, Nixon did! Don't burst my dream bubble!

I just KNOW one day I will wake up and there will be that new poll saying "Shrub at his lowest ever, and just dropped into the 20's!"

[Jawja]

23. But Nixon

didn't have a lapdog media.

[davekriss]

20. That's amazing

That means 33% to 38% of Americans are complicit in the war crimes committed by this Regime. Invasion of a nation in the absence of being attacked, and in the absence of clear imminent threat, is a crime by Article 51 of the UN Charter, which was ratified by the U.S. and thus, by our Constitution, has the force of law. By this line of argument, George Bush is a war criminal. Every death in Iraq is a war crime. And every U.S. citizen that still approves of the job George Bush is doing is complicit in these crimes.

Can those millions fit in a court at The Hague? Maybe they can be tried a couple of hundred at a time?

We'll have to fit the 33% to 38% in American courts when it comes to the outting of Valarie Plame and other local crimes.

[Supersedeas]

25. Who are the Neaderthal Backwash who still believe in * Incompetence

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. And Rasmussen has him at 42% strongly disapprove! (20% strongly approve)

[BOSSHOG]

5. He's still within the diebold halo.

[brg5001]

8. The public gets it -- Bush is the new "Baghdad Bob"!

Remember Baghdad Bob? He denied that there were any Americans in Baghdad even as the streets behind him were full of American soldiers. Well something occured to me last night: Bush is the new "Baghdad Bob" -- in total denial, all the time.

He said Monday that Hezbollah guerillas suffered a defeat at the hands of Israel in their month-long Mideast war. “There’s going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon,” Bush said. This was even as EVERYONE ELSE -- policy experts, military experts, journalists, even his neocon buddies Krauthammer and Kristol -- stated that Israel's tactics had not been successful and that Hezbollah's hand was now strengthened.
From "Mission Accomplished", to "We're fighting them over there so we don't have to face them here" (whoever 'they' are), to "Freedom is on the march", to "No one could have anticipated (fill in the blank with whatever obviously COULD have been anticipated)", the Boy King has zero credibility. All I can say is...as far as his approval rating goes, COME ON TWENTIES!

[senseandsensibility]

12. Welcome to DU!

Come on twenties, indeed!:) :hi:

[Wickerman]

16. nice post

Welcome to DU!

:applause: :hi:

[brg5001]

28. Thanks for the warm welcome, Wick and NoDuDu

I'm enjoying DU immensely. Glad to be able to contribute.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

18. What Wickerman said...Nice Post! And welcome to DU...

:hi:

Bush said Israel defeated Hezbollah? Here are the current headlines from Google news...

Hezbollah chief claims strategic, historic victory
The Age, Australia - 55 minutes ago
HEZBOLLAH leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has declared that his guerillas achieved a "strategic, historic victory" against Israel, and suggested Lebanese and ...

Hizbollah begins drive to rebuild war-ravaged areas
Daily News & Analysis, India - 44 minutes ago
BEIRUT: Bulldozers began removing hills of rubble in Beirut's southern suburb on Tuesday as Hizbollah teams surveyed the damage and contacted residents to ...

Returning Lebanese celebrate
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 2 hours ago
(08-15) 04:00 PDT Sidon, Lebanon -- Yussif Ashour and his family were ecstatic. They had lived in a hotel for the past 22 days and ...

Hezbollah: We won
Turkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - 6 hours ago
Hezbollah boasted on Monday it had scored a "divine victory" in its conflict with Israel while the Jewish state claimed the upper hand, saying the militant ...

Nasrallah claims "victory" over Israel
Euronews.net, France - 8 hours ago
Lebanese citizens listened last night to Hizbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declaring his group had won a "strategic and historic victory" over Israel. ...

A Defiant Hezbollah Rises From the Rubble
Los Angeles Times, CA - 8 hours ago
After holding its own against the powerful Israeli army, the militia is unlikely to disarm. By Megan K. Stack, Times Staff Writer. ...

Nasrallah claims victory against Israel
NDTV.com, India - 9 hours ago
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday his guerrillas had won a "strategic, historic victory" against Israel. His ...

Hezbollah Celebrates Swell of Support
Los Angeles Times, CA - 11 hours ago
By Megan K. Stack, Times Staff Writer. BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Hezbollah's urban nerve center is a shattered shell. Its most loyal followers ...

Defiant Hizbollah leader hails ‘historic victory’
The Herald, UK - 14 hours ago
Hizbollah has achieved a "strategic, historic victory" against Israel, its leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah announced yesterday. "We ...

Hezbollah claims 'great victory'
News24, South Africa - 15 hours ago
Beirut - Hezbollah claimed a "great victory" on Monday in its month-long war with Israel and vowed that the Shi'ite group will help people displaced by the ...

Hezbollah won't be pressured into disarming: Nasrallah (Roundup)
Monsters and Critics.com, UK - 15 hours ago
Beirut - Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah on Monday evening said that his militant group would not be forced to disarm by 'intimidation or pressure,' in ...

Bahraini Shiites take to streets celebrating Hezbollah 'victory'
Monsters and Critics.com, UK - 15 hours ago
Sitra, Bahrain - Within minutes of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's speech Monday night claiming victory over Israel, Bahraini Shiites hit the ...

Bush is "Baghdad Bob", for sure.

[brg5001]

26. Bush actually said that Hezbollash suffered a major defeat

Yep! His statment on the subject was carried by AP yesterday.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, y'all!

PS: Saw Bill Kristol on "Faux News Sunday". He was actually forced to agree with Juan Williams, that the entire Israel vs. Hezbollah escapade had strengthened Hezbollah and weakened the cause of Lebanon's moderates. What a disaster for all concerned! Except in the twisted mind of Baghdad Bush.

[Beetwasher]

10. The Terror Well Has Run Dry

Ha Ha!!!

[CoffeeCat]

13. I predict the teens...

....are just around the corner.

The man is in a downward spiral. Big time.

He replaced Andy Card with Josh Bolten--and Tony Lake has come on board. Despite these
personnel changes--and loads of other manufactured marketing stunts--his numbers aren't
moving. Even a foiled terrorist plot and a very visible role for Condi in the Israeli/Lebanon role couldn't budge the numbers.

It's similar to a crumbling company hiring new VP-level staff and sinking their efforts into a new PR campaign--and it not working.

He's hanging on by a thread.

I truly predict that Junior will descent into the teens by mid 2007.

In the meantime, let's all enjoy watching him drop like a hot rock--from from the mid-30's to the teens.

:popcorn:

[AndyA]

14. I'm surprised Bush isn't in the 20's at this point.

Even the number of core supporters who approve of Bush has begun to drop. Republicans running for re-election don't want to be near him, and he's ticked off the true conservatives as well as the more liberal Republicans as well. The Evangelicals are the only ones who still seem to show strong support for him.

I honestly think our right wing pollsters and press are giving him the benefit of the doubt, and not showing the true numbers. When they see that he is not going to bounce back up, the numbers will begin to slide down again as we head into Fall.

[saltpoint]

15. The fake cowboy thing's getting old. Even with the people who loved it

early on.

Let's all work hard for November's midterms and take advantage of the GOP's lapse in fortunes.

[Czolgosz]

22. It's always nice to see poll numbers in context (and pollkatz does a great

job of collecting and graphing the poll data):

[Bumblebee]

24. Time poll is from Friday, Jun. 30, 2006

[City Lights]

29. AP-IPSOS has him at 33%.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, matching his low in May. His handling of nearly every issue, from the Iraq war to foreign policy, contributed to the president's decline around the nation, even in the Republican-friendly South.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/11/ap/politics/mainD8JEB6SO1.shtml

[WI_DEM]

30. what spate of good domestic and foreign news?

[brg5001]

31. EXACTLY. What 'spate of good news' has there been?

WI_DEM, you hit the nail on the head. There hasn't been a 'spate of good news' except for the one spinning around in Tony Snow's dreams.

After each of George W. Bush's "premature victory laps", there was supposed to be a big bounce. Well, like a basketball that bounces off the court, each bounce has been smaller and smaller until finally the trend flatlines and the ball just rolls to a stop.

CREDIT: Thanks to conservative columnist George Will for coining the phrase "premature victory laps" to refer to the constant stream of self-congratulatory blather coming from the Boy King. Even thoughtful people on the right are waking up to the fact that Shrub is somewhere between addled and delusional.

[lonestarnot]

32. kick