Bush quarterly approval average lowest yet.
By on Apr 17th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Bush quarterly approval average lowest yet.
“George W. Bush’s presidency reaches a milestone of sorts on Thursday as he completes his 25th quarter in office. But his 25th quarter is not one on which he will look back fondly, given that he averaged only a 35% job approval rating, the lowest quarterly average of his presidency to date.”
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What made it jog up in the 23rd Quarter? That right there makes me dispute this poll. His ratings INCREASED??? Yeah, right.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:49 pmIt would be nice to see this graph indexed against the news stories of the day, so we could see what gave him those little bumps up during his otherwise steady descent into infamy.
April 17th, 2007 at 12:51 pmI am willing to bet that it can and will go a lot lower. I can’t predict when, but it will be very soon after he decalres himself the new messiah and declares war on Korea for sending that godless assassin here to easily buy firearms with little or no problem and murder all of those poor kids. BTW how can he even say the words “loving God” with all that has come to pass. He considers himself ‘chosen’? I bet he wanted to lay hands on some of the people at VT today. How about the 3300 Americans and untold number of Iraquis he’s killed in Iraq and Afghanistan?
April 17th, 2007 at 12:58 pmI still think 30% or so worth of popular support is too much for an administration that has presided over one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in recent memory, if not in history.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:01 pmGoing……going……..
April 17th, 2007 at 1:03 pmGregor Samsa,
The term you are searching for is “of all time.”
April 17th, 2007 at 1:07 pm35%? Sh!t. That’s a lot of stupid people.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:07 pmDo the limbo, baby . . . How low can he go? I say, How low can he go! C’mon everybody, How low can Bush go?
Pretty frigging low.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:10 pmSpudge,
yes, I might have understated it a bit.
Getting bogged in a country that posed no threat originally, and still has no significant military capacity, is something only a selected few (incompetents) can accomplish.
Pres Bush has proved himself an elite member of those selected few.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:10 pmIf this graph were my shares I’d sell.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:18 pmGregor, if you look back at other Presidents with popularity problems, there was a distinct difference in their situations: none of these presidents had a corporate media glossing over all their failures. Nixon was roasted. Truman was roasted. Bush? They’re still treating him like some kind of “statesman” or something. They still can’t understand why the vast majority of us don’t like him. What changed? Simple. Now, every “journalist” or “pundit” you see on television is a millionaire. Journalists used to be working class people.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:18 pm.
Bush’s Legacy: FAILURE.
Bush’s Base: BLIND.
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April 17th, 2007 at 1:20 pmComment by Bluedog49 — April 17, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
I agree with you comment on the coverage of Pres Bush’s many failures.
However, it takes willful blindness -or wanton ignorance, take your pick- to gloss over the overwhelming evidence that all of the challenges Pres Bush faces are largely self-inflicted wounds.
True, the media coverage has been wanting, but the sheer amount of bad news should have -by now- opened the eyes of many in that 30% demographic group.
I simply don’t know anymore what it will take for them to stop supporting this administration. I thought maybe the worsening conditions in Iraq. I was wrong. The increasing death toll of American soldiers. Wrong again. The non-response to Katrina, the torture trials, the ever-expanding government powers (something I believed conservatives were loath to)? Wrong, wrong, and wrong.
If none of the above will bring down his popularity levels, nothing will. What a disheartening picture.
::sigh::
April 17th, 2007 at 1:29 pmOffice pool bet: how many times will his bushness mention 9/11 when he visits Vigninia Tech for a Photo Op?
April 17th, 2007 at 1:34 pmSorry TP, media and all poster’s. I don’t believe all these poll’s….Like every thing else in the media it is slanted to the radical reich….With what bush has done by intent or neglect has had a definate impact of even the most staunch reich winger and john q public….I believe his number’s are realy close to single diget’s and have been for some time….Fear still permeates the reich winger’s so they are lagging behind in joining us in marches and in vocal out rage but only insane people would continue to back this administration..My own little poll of reich winger’s prooves it, people I spoke to last fall that thought bush was right are now telling me they think he is a madman…I think it is about time I hung my upside down flag for the season…..Blessings
April 17th, 2007 at 1:47 pmGregor: “I simply don’t know anymore what it will take for them to stop supporting this administration.”
I agree that it’s daunting. First, I would reinstitute the legal “firewall” between News departments and the corporate boards which run their parent corporations. Also, television “journalists” and pundits shouldn’t have their compensation tied to the profit of the parent company through 401K’s and arbitrary bonuses.
But, overall, public financing of all federal elections would take the money out of the process for the networks. They make billions each election cycle on election ads so there is absolutely no incentive for them to back changing the system. They need to be forced to provide the public with the service they promised when they got our airwaves for free.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:51 pmOffice pool bet: how many times will his bushness mention 9/11 when he visits Vigninia Tech for a Photo Op?
Comment by FTGOP
So, who won the pool?
April 17th, 2007 at 3:12 pmYes, it’s low. BUT WHO ARE THESE F’ING 3 OUT OF 10 PEOPLE?
April 17th, 2007 at 4:33 pm@Proud Dem: His ratings spike corresponds to 9/11.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:55 pm#18- Chicago Jeff-
it isn’t 3/ 10- its’ THREE- and I work with them ALL.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:44 pm35%?
…either this poll is Bushit…
…or the country is sicker than I think…
April 17th, 2007 at 8:43 pm“the sheer amount of bad news should have -by now- opened the eyes of many in that 30% demographic group.”
When you consider that the vast majority of this 30% get virtually all their news from Fox, think that global warming is a big hoax, are convinced that the earth is only 6,000 years old, assert that dinosaurs roamed the Garden of Eden, and fervently believe in the desirability of an apocalyptic “End Times” because they themselves will be Raptured into Heaven, it shouldn’t be surprising at all.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
April 24th, 2007 at 7:26 am