Former champ
ScienceDaily: Newsweek poll: Bush at 28 percent approval — The Republicans can beat the Democrats at everything!
U.S. President George W. Bush has fallen to 28 percent approval in a Newsweek poll, the worst presidential rating since Jimmy Carter’s 28 percent in 1979.
It was an all-time low for Bush in the poll, and it seems to portend electoral difficulties for the Republican Party, Newsweek reported online Saturday.
The poll of 1,001 people conducted Wednesday and Thursday — before and during Thursday’s debate of Republican presidential candidates — found that each of the leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination is beating the Republican front-runners in head-to-head match-ups.
found by Bubba Martin
I havent head an apology for Bush ignoring the August 6th memo in a while. Anyone care to explain why he and Condi ignored that memo again?
# 17
#1 – Carter is a decent man? The same Carter that sides with the brutal dictator or anti-Semite every time?
You’re making that up.
#4 – Kerry, the better candidate? Hah, .
Not just better. Light years better. Kerry reads, for starters. And can talk. And he’s intellectually curious. And he accepts reality and believes in science. Bush does none of that.
And Gore was even better, IMHO. Bush is a chimp, next to Gore
Had Gore been in office, he would have read that PDB warning of bin Laden’s attacks; he would have acted; and we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Bush has been a very poor President, however I’m thankful every day that we got him instead of the two.
Oh, yeah. Eight more years of peace, prosperity and budget surpluses would have been a big bummer.
#8 – Gore should be thankful he lost the election.
And conservatives are SORRY Bush and the GOP won because Americans now know that everything conservatives sanctimoniously preached for decades was pure hot air.
#14. Nah, “worst president ever” belongs to now, and hopefully always will, to James Buchanan, who sat idly by and let half the country secede while members of his cabinet actively sided with the traitors by moving US Army weapons into secessionist territory and allowed the Army to abandon its posts.
That being said, Dubya is probably the worst president in the last 100 years or so. at least Nixon accomplished SOMETHING before his fall. Not only is Bush’s foreign policy a disaster, he accomplished virtually none of his domestic goals. Most of his tax cuts will be repealed, his immigration reform bill and Social Security privatization bills are DOA.
One can say that he passed the biggest entitlement of the last 30 years with the Medicare drug benefit. not exactly something that will earn him props from his (supposedly “small government”) GOP fan base. Also, federalism fans will not care for the ‘No Child Left Untested,’ federal interference with local school curriculum.
Bush’s lasting domestic legacy will be a matter of simple luck. He happened to be president when 2 USSCT justices departed the court, so he got to appoint ultra-conservative replacements. Even that was of minimal effect – Rhenquist was already in their camp, so he only got one more vote on the conservative side.
By any measure, Bush is a terrible president and an utter failure at accomplishing even his own noxious goals.
this is not news, it’s a calculable mathematic result
given that no two people will ever agree on everything, it only stands to reason that if you go around telling everyone that you are going to follow your own opinion regardless of what they may think, as time progresses, you’ll wind up alienating everyone.
a man who never learns when it is wise to compromise will soon be alone.
#23, doug,
#14. Nah, “worst president ever” belongs to now, and hopefully always will, to James Buchanan, …
Unfortunately, Bush is trying to make a liar out of you.
#22 – I’m not Algore or Kerry, I don’t make things up. Start with this story: http://shrinkster.com/ort and follow all the links in it. Sorry, I don’t have time to dig up more links because I’m being killed by Global Warming (TM)
Actually this poll is unreliable. The poll was biased heavily in favor of Democrat respondents. The current Rasmussen poll shows Bush’s approval rating at 38%, close to what it’s been for the past several monhts.
#27. As one of the commentators on your linked site notes:
“They didn’t set out to find an equal number of Republicans and Democrats. They RANDOMLY sampled x number of people. Of those, more identified themselves as Democrats than Republicans.”
I don’t see a critique of the poll’s methodology, so here’s where I say, “reality has a liberal bias.”
Most polls like this are based on about 1000 adults likely to vote. This one was done through telephone interviews only. To achieve 95% confidence with a margin or error at about 3%, you only need a sample size of about 1000 for a large population like the US. All that works IF the sample strategy is unbiased. Because the sample size is so small in comparison to the population, the effect of any bias is magnified. Newsweek won’t put out the raw data but the CBS poll does show the bias in other ways. http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob1.htm They give a breakdown of the approval rate between republicans (76%) , democrats (11%), and independents (24%) . Also, remember that the margin of error is + or – so the poll result is always a range and never one number. It is equally as likely that the result is 28 or 31 or 25 or any number in between. That’s not to say it’s unreliable, it’s just not accurate enough to be very important.
What annoys me the most is even when Bush is out of power I’m still gonna have to see him at events such as the RNC and other president deaths.
I can’t wait until he dies then I’m gonna have a bar-be-que to celebrate
#30 – As one of the little people, I am enrolled in the Bush Health Care Plan, also known as the “Just Walk It Off” Plan. Therefore, Bush, with his Gold Standard Government Health Care Plan is likely to out live me.
Sadly, therefor, I will not be able to attend your barbeque
There is a major difference.
Bush is involved in an international war on terror.
Carter was involved with a crazed killer rabbit.
woot Carter!!
#31 They should use my bar b que upon his death as motivation to rededicate yourself to healthier living to try and outlive him.
Here is too hoping
28%… that means that there’s still room for his approval rating to fall…
Wait! Hot news! Ted Turner says Bush only has a 10% approval rating! Stop the presses! It must be true! It’s too good not to be true…….
#32 What international war on terror? That is nothing but a Bush invention (lie). Bush is in business with the whole Bin Ladin family and he is not at war with them. We (the US) are partners with the Saudis and they train the terrorists. We are in Iraq for the oil and we are in Afghanistan for the heroin, both substances are very lucrative with users that can’t live without the product. Does anyone really believe all the resources of the US can’t find the only 6’4″ Arab on dialysis in the world. There is a constant trail of medical supplies that anyone who wanted to find him could follow.
It is far more than 28% of Americans who are too stupid to see the truth.
#27, Frank
C’mon, give us a break. Some blogger doesn’t like the results so you claim the results have to be bogus. There was a preponderance of Democrats simply because more people are identifying with Democrats then with Republicans. Harris also has Bush below 30% approval while Fox has him at 38%. Are you ready to discount Fox?
Check out
http://www.pollster.com/presbushapproval.php
for a comprehensive look at all the major polls. You will notice that Bush is on a steady down slope. From above 50 % approval to under 34% average approval today.
FYI, a lot of any poll results depend upon the question asked.
#26 TheGlobalWarmer
You give me a link to a right-wing op-ed piece in claim that you’re not making stuff up?
Please, you can do better!
Or maybe not.
If you voted for the possibly the worst president in US history — not once, but twice, you clearly have serious problems making political and character judgments.
Greg, if you believe that’s a right wing source as is every link in it, then there really is no hope of educating you. It’s amazing how far left everything has moved when that would be considered right.
Despite Bush’s numerous flaw and poor performance, He’s still a better and less dangerous President than Algore or Kerry would have been. Those two, (along with Hillarius) are despicable human beings who would say or do anything to be President. Look what happened to Algore, his continued attempts to push through more and more illegal recounts to steal the election finally failed and it totally unhinged him. The man is now certifiable. He and Kerry are both smug elitists that have no idea what regular America is like.
Carter was a complete zero as President. I don’t remember a single thing he did that involved moving forward. He was the ultimate hunch over, pull back and hide guy. It took us a long time to recover from his mess.