26 percent:
By on Jul 12th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
26 percent:
President Bush’s approval rating according to a new Harris poll, down from a high of 88 percent shortly after 9/11. Cheney’s approval rating is just 21 percent.
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Damn. That mean he’s even losing the 28%ers.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:25 pmW stands for “Wildly unpopular”
July 12th, 2007 at 4:26 pmpssst…
… hey Lefties… guess what….
IT DOESN’T MATTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:26 pmWow. He’s on his way into the basement. 26%. Keep working on that number, Bush. Ya know, Nixon resigned at this point….but we know you’re not. Keep it up. Let’s see if we can get it below 1 in 4…or even better, 1 in 5!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pmDoes this mean that, if I’m in a room with 99 other people, I can count on 26 idiots in the crowd surrounding me? Scary thought…
PEACE
July 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pmI love him 100% and I want to have his babies!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pmI wonder if the numbers might have reached these lows sooner, had it not been for some creative “fixing” by the pollsters?
The Associated Press
4:42 PM EDT, July 11, 2007
An owner of a company that conducted polls for President Bush, Sen. Joe Lieberman and other candidates was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years in prison for ordering employees to falsify survey results, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Tracy Costin, 47, of Madison was ordered to serve 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kevin O’Connor said.
Costin, who owned and ran DataUSA Inc. of Guilford, also must repay more than $82,700 to several clients and $168,900 to the Internal Revenue Service, O’Connor said…
Costin admitted in her plea last year that she conspired to falsify survey and polling results between 2001 and 2004 to meet deadlines or other requirements that DataUSA otherwise could not satisfy.
She also admitted that she directed other DataUSA employees to falsify results in several ways, including changing demographic information such as gender to satisfy client requirements…
Nah. Couldn’t happen here in the go ‘ol US of A, could it?
If any of what’s going on today were about truth and upholding the law of the land, Bush would have been investigated, tried, and impeached already.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:28 pmhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/12/bush.leak.ap/index.html
“President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative”
July 12th, 2007 at 4:29 pmWho are these people – the 26% ?????
July 12th, 2007 at 4:29 pmFake-King is too slow again!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:30 pm21% for Cheney??? That much??? Talk about ignoring facts.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:30 pmGeorge Bush has now ordered Harriet Miers to commit a crime. It is a crime for a private citizen not to even show up after being subpoenaed by a Congressional Committee. Harriet Miers should go to jail and George Bush should be impeached for this.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pmI would die for this man!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pmThis, unfortunately, does not surprise me. When the Titanic sank there were people on board who seriously thought she’d somehow right herself and sail on. George W. is performing his impersonation of Captain Smith of the Titanic, and there are people still sitting on deck chairs. As Lincoln said, you can fool some of the people all of the time.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:32 pmMore that one out of five APPROVE? of Darth Veeper?
July 12th, 2007 at 4:33 pmOh my gawt, this country is so FU(KED!
#7 JC, GoW: That story is a good reminder of why these polls always have to be taken with a grain of salt.
When they ALL show the same trends over long periods of time, however, you can be pretty sure that there’s something there.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:33 pmEven his boyfriend, Jeff Gannon, will be against him soon.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:37 pmThe left-right spectrum is a smart-dumb spectrum.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:38 pmHe doesn’t pay any attention to polls.
No wait… or is that Intelligence Reports?
July 12th, 2007 at 4:40 pmLW, at 12, Fred ordered HM not to appear.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:41 pmFunny. I guess we now know WHY Bush doesn’t pay attention to polls. He would cry himself to sleep.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:41 pm“President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operativeâ€
So, when can we expect him to fire this person. We all do remember his promise to fire anyone in his administration that was involved in the Valerie Plame case. Just one of many lies told by this compulsive liar in chief.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:44 pmWhen you are der Fuhrer, it DOESN’T MATTER what the people think! He will hit single digits, and it WON’T MATTER!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:49 pmMust read of the day:
Nicholas D. Kristof writes in his New York Times opinion column (subscription required): “It’s nice that Mr. Bush is still confident about Iraq, telling us on Tuesday: ‘I strongly believe that we will prevail.’
“Apparently, we’re doing almost as well today as we were in October 2003 when he blamed journalists for filtering out the good news and declared: ‘We’re making really good progress.’
“Then in September 2004, Mr. Bush assured us that Iraq was ‘making steady progress.’ In April 2005: ‘We’re making good progress in Iraq.’ In October 2005: ‘Iraq has made incredible political progress.’ In November 2005: ‘Iraqis are making inspiring progress.’
“Do we really want to continue making this kind of inspiring progress for the next 10 years?”
July 12th, 2007 at 4:50 pm#9. Who are these people – the 26% ?????
I work with a few of them. Sadly, they’re not the rich elite who actually benefit by having this corrupt regime in power. They’re working stiffs whose REAL income falls every year, and the gap between them and the Haves grows wider.
They are blue collar people who stand behing the reich wing based on gun control and other B.S. issues.
I feel sorry for them… but the still P*ss me off!!!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:51 pm“I would die for this man!”
Comment by THE KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — July 12, 2007 @ 4:31 pm
So do it! Please!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:52 pmSo 21 + 26 = 47.
47% of the public approve of the Executive Branch!!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:53 pmbut his dad still loves him. or does he?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/images/20050105-1_bush41clintonpsa-515h.html
July 12th, 2007 at 4:54 pm#27 So 21 + 26 = 47.
47% of the public approve of the Executive Branch!!
Comment by squegeebooo
O YEA!!! And that is the same “math” that PudgeBoy Rover used to predict the Repugs winning the ‘06 elections and it is also used to prove that the surge is working.
Guess the WH mathematicians must have gone to Regent U and studied Creationism too.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:56 pmSo 21 + 26 = 47.
47% of the public approve of the Executive Branch!!
Comment by squegeebooo — July 12, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
And be sure to join us next week on Squegeebooo’s Fun With Numbers!
Well done, squege.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:57 pmYeah, the 26%ers are delusional middle class saps who really think that the rich are going to welcome them into their club – while never connecting that dots that the elite rich are the elite rich because they DON’T share…
July 12th, 2007 at 4:57 pmI would die for this man!
Comment by THE KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — July 12, 2007 @ 4:31 pm
Fine. Then enlist.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:58 pmIt’ll matter in 2009! RICO! RICO! RICO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:58 pmSo 21 + 26 = 47.
47% of the public approve of the Executive Branch!!
Comment by squegeebooo — July 12, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
Explains why you’re a conservative….
By the way, didn’t Dick-tator say he wasn’t Executive Branch?
July 12th, 2007 at 4:58 pmSo 21 + 26 = 47.
Hey Mathletes, your math doesn’t add up. You have your math but we have THE math! Dick’s not part of the Executive Branch so your brainiac equations don’t work here!
July 12th, 2007 at 4:59 pmunbelievable,
What’s funny is all of the middle class people who are under the impression that they are rich, but everything they have is on credit and not paid off.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:59 pm#31 – #
Yeah, the 26%ers are delusional middle class saps who really think that the rich are going to welcome them into their club – while never connecting that dots that the elite rich are the elite rich because they DON’T share…
What? Classism in America? Never! Really? Who would’ve ever thunk it? /sarcasm
You hit the nail on the head.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:59 pm#25 I follow you exactly. Its the “Whats the Matter with Kansas” syndrome. Support Chimpy because he allows “us” to perpetuate the divisive, phony christian, generally anglo, faux conservative, neo-con BS, we love so well. Never mind that Bush and his cronies are a world apart from most of his supporters. The rich who support Bush (really Cheney since he is the brains behind Pinky) tolerate his ineptitude. They laugh at his inarticulate speech and know money got him though Yale. Most of his man-on-the-street supporters like him BECAUSE he is inept and doesn’t think well. They don’t realize in his world, they wouldn’t even get the time of day! Remember his funraiser crack, “This is a room full of my kind of people, RICH…”
GOP, get a clue!!!
July 12th, 2007 at 5:02 pmIf President Bush asked me, I would kill myself and then kill anyone else he wanted dead!
July 12th, 2007 at 5:03 pmSo 21 + 26 = 47.
47% of the public approve of the Executive Branch!!
Comment by squegeebooo — July 12, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
So Cheney is part of the Exec Branch again? I simply cannot keep up.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:04 pmSorry, VP Bush. I commented before I read your post.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:04 pm#25. yeah, I hear you.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:05 pmI work in a town (Aspen, CO.) where the rich elite are shall I say, conspicuos by their presence and how they display it. Now most, if not all my friends are like me. Working my tail off and living almost paycheck to paycheck and paying outrageous rent and gas prices, at this point almost $4.00 a gallon.
And yet, many of them still support this numb-nuts and his cronies. They see how the rich live, how they throw their money around to say nothing about their arrogance about it (I could rant about that for a few graphs) and they blame the DEMOCRATS for their situation and circumstances.
How is this possible? Whats really tragic is that most of my friends have at least a Bachelors Degree from college and are pretty dammed intelligent.
And yet……..
What’s funny is all of the middle class people who are under the impression that they are rich, but everything they have is on credit and not paid off.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — July 12, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
You mean the people who live in McMansions with no furniture or electricity, drive BMWs, and then blame everyone else, especially teachers when the kids they basically ignore get in trouble? Yeah, I know exactly who you mean :D All the parents I had to meet with last year were those people who were disappointed that their kid wasn’t living up to their insane expectations, and unwilling to consider themselves any part of the solution.
Capitalism sucks. We need to base our culture not on money, but on quality of life…
July 12th, 2007 at 5:05 pmSo 21 + 26 = 47.
Hey Mathletes, your math doesn’t add up. You have your math but we have THE math! Dick’s not part of the Executive Branch so your brainiac equations don’t work here!
Comment by Vice President Bush — July 12, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
Well, he’s only half Executive, half Legislative, and half Double Plus Secret branch. So you take away 10.5 percentage points for the Legislative portion, but then you put them back because the Double Plus Secret branch is above the laws of math.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:07 pmYou hit the nail on the head.
Comment by JesusChrist_GodOfWar — July 12, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
I suppose it’s bound to happen when you keep swinging :D
We told this to a troll last week and it was obvious that it was news to him that hurt… Haven’t seen him since, in fact… Hmmmm…
July 12th, 2007 at 5:07 pmHe doesn’t pay any attention to polls.
No wait… or is that Intelligence Reports?
Comment by Art — July 12, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
I think it’s that he doesn’t have the intelligence to follow polls.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:08 pmA 21% approval rating places Cheney in roughly the same category as genital warts.
However, a straw poll has Cheney losing to genital warts by 22 points if an election were held today.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:09 pmSo 21 + 26 = 47.
47% of the public approve of the Executive Branch!!
Comment by squegeebooo
Got the math wrong Squeeg
July 12th, 2007 at 5:10 pm21 – 26 = -5% =)
I would die for this man!
Comment by THE KING!!!— July 12, 2007 @ 4:31 pm
Fine. Then enlist.
Comment by Damian
Sheesh Damian! I wouldn’t wish that on YOU.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:12 pmWhen you are der Fuhrer, it DOESN’T MATTER what the people think! He will hit single digits, and it WON’T MATTER!
Comment by upside00 — July 12, 2007 @ 4:49 pm
You are so right!!
July 12th, 2007 at 5:16 pmBecause the dems are not gonna do anything because they are all a unit.I remember when that lady pelosie said that impeachment was off the table(she shot herself in the foot now because we want him impeached)she’s damn if she do damn if she do
Bush does not care b/c he knows his admin is over. It is the same reason Bush will not withdraw from Iraq unless Congress stops funding and no pols would dare cut off the money to the troops or their careers would be over too.
Milary families know it too. It is a very tragic situation. People will keep dying til 2009 when Bush is out of office.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:30 pmWell, he’s only half Executive, half Legislative
Comment by toasterhead — July 12, 2007 @ 5:07 pm
Oh my God! Is this the “man/animal hybrid” that Chimpy warned us about in his SOTU speech?
July 12th, 2007 at 5:34 pmbd: “no pols would dare cut off the money to the troops or their careers would be over too.”
That’s very true, but it’s far past time for us to start asking why this is. Michael Moore’s on the money – it’s the corporate media.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:44 pmHas any President matched the high approval to the highest disapproval?
That’s a 62 pt difference. Wow. Talk about dropping the ball.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:48 pmThat’s the time, going into the 4th quarter, that the fans wouldn’t mind getting a fresh arm in there at qb. It looks like this one’s too groggy from all the hits he’s taking: he’s not effective. This isn’t a game we can afford to lose. He doesn’t have a clear grasp of the opponent (Are they weaker or not?). He should be removed for the good of the team.
If President Bush asked me, I would kill myself and then kill anyone else he wanted dead!
Comment by THE KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — July 12, 2007 @ 5:03 pm
How the Hell do you intend to carry out phase two of your commitment?
July 12th, 2007 at 5:55 pmI predict a fifty percent reduction in this rating by Sept.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:56 pmHe’ll be lucky to last till Christmas. Now would’nt a resignation be a great gift to the nation?
Walt, please don’t confuse the poor troll with stuff like temporal sequencing.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:56 pmHe’s just not up for it.
How the Hell do you intend to carry out phase two of your commitment?
Comment by WaltTheMan — July 12, 2007 @ 5:55 pm
omy can’t quit laughing
July 12th, 2007 at 6:07 pmI predict a fifty percent reduction in this rating by Sept.
He’ll be lucky to last till Christmas. Now would’nt a resignation be a great gift to the nation?
Comment by RUCerious — July 12, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
I ran the second chart through Access probability curves and could not get a firm number for this Sept, but next March comes up with 18% and Oct, 2008 comes up with 16%. After that, he gets an uptick to 17% in Nov. This is based on trends for administrations back to LBJ. DDE and JFK are excluded because, if they are included, the Bush 43 numbers drop below 0%.
July 12th, 2007 at 6:30 pmIn a democracy the leaders are supposed to listen to the people who put them in power. Bush refuses to listen to the people of this country. The majority of the nation understands that the policy in Iraq has failed. They also understand that the surge has failed. Bush is prepared to see more Americans die in Iraq’s civil war, the American people are not. Bush has put his failed policy ahead of the people of this country.
He has put this failed policy ahead of the troops as well. He says he will stand by the inept Maliki government. When will he stand by the troops? Now even senior members of his own GOP (Lugar, Domenici, Snowe, Voinovich, and Smith) are leaving his side because they too see that the policy is wrong. Polls show that a majority of us think that it was a mistake to invade Iraq.
Unlike other nations, we hold our leaders accountable even if they are not on the ballot like in 2006. This will happen again in 2008. Bush let bin Laden go at Tora Bora, when our troops were ready to go after him. He should have focused on finding and killing bin Laden. He outsourced this job to the Afghan locals. Today al Qaeda is back to its original strength due to Bush’s wrong and costly decision. He let the American people down.
July 12th, 2007 at 6:33 pmHow did Cheney make it to 21%?
http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org
July 12th, 2007 at 6:35 pmHow did Cheney make it to 21%?
http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org
Comment by KYJurisDoctor — July 12, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
New math?
July 12th, 2007 at 7:30 pm@ Mr. President -
Last time I checked, we live in a democracy. THE APPROVAL RATING MATTERS, YOU DAMN FASCIST.
July 12th, 2007 at 8:18 pm“The left-right spectrum is a smart-dumb spectrum.”
No its just dumb. Clinton did just as many stupid things as Bush (thats A LOT by the way). We really need to get new parties in power and get the idiots out of Washington.
July 12th, 2007 at 11:30 pmGoat, we don’t live in a democracy, We live in a Constitutional republic, they aren’t the same.
July 12th, 2007 at 11:32 pmBush will continue this war even if nobody supports him other than his dog and his wife. Here is a President who thinks that he is an emperor (with a brain of 5 year old ) that commands the most powerful military the world has ever seen. It isn’t matter what the numbers of the poll are because he thinks he gets directive from God to bring peace & democracy (read evangelical Christian faith). The world is a dangerous place since he is in power.
July 12th, 2007 at 11:53 pmEvery week, another poll or two – always the same results:
July 13th, 2007 at 12:00 amBush/Cheney are more unpopular but nothing else changes.
They don’t care. They have their mission and they wil continue.
I never have been politically active before, only politically aware, but I can no longer stand by and do nothing while a dictatorship is being set up in this country. Never has any President or any elected official has committed more crimes or disgraced their office as much as this one has, not even Richard Nixon…. If Bill Clinton had been accused of a quarter of the things this President has been associated with. I would have screamed for impeachment. We must demand that Congress seriously investigate any alleged wrongdoing by this administration and act or we must form a well regulated citizen militia and physically take back the White House!
“ A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. â€
July 13th, 2007 at 12:12 amGosh, Cheney at 21%.
July 13th, 2007 at 2:41 amSoon enough he will be more popular than Bush.
and the democrat do nothing congress ratings are even less
July 13th, 2007 at 2:03 pm