{"id":1183,"date":"2004-02-03T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1183.html"},"modified":"2004-02-03T10:05:56","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T15:05:56","slug":"thats-vulnerable-with-a-capital-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/thats-vulnerable-with-a-capital-v\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s ‘Vulnerable’ with a capital ‘V’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three respected national polls — count ’em, three — show Bush’s approval rating dropping below 50% for the first time in his presidency. With that in mind, I hope we can finally put to rest this notion that Bush is a “popular” president whose second term is taken as fact. <\/p>\n

The latest Gallup poll<\/a> pegged Bush’s job approval rating at 49%, his lowest ever and an 11-point drop from just one month ago. Meanwhile, a record-high 48% said they disapprove of Bush’s performance in office. <\/p>\n

Gallup also reported that a majority of the public now disapproves of Bush’s handing of the economy, foreign affairs, the situation in Iraq, and health care. The poll also showed the nation evenly divided — 49% to 49% — on whether it was worth going to war in Iraq, marking the first time approval of the war has dropped below 50 percent.<\/p>\n

The same Gallup poll showed Bush losing to Kerry in a hypothetical general election match-up, 53% to 46%.<\/p>\n

This week’s Newsweek poll<\/a> was just as bad for Bush. The president’s approval rating in this poll has dipped to 49%, the lowest rating Bush has had in a Newsweek poll and a five-point drop from earlier this month. A plurality indicated they do not want to see Bush win a second term, and, in a hypothetical match-up against Kerry, Bush loses 48% to 46%.<\/p>\n

And lastly, a Quinnipiac University Poll<\/a> also shows Bush’s approval rating at 49%, the lowest of his presidency. The same poll shows Bush trailing Kerry by a fairly wide margin in a general election race, 51% to 43%. In December, Bush led Kerry by 12 points, 51% to 39%.<\/p>\n

I guess the Democratic nomination is worth having after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three respected national polls — count ’em, three — show Bush’s approval rating dropping below 50% for the first time in his presidency. With that in mind, I hope we can finally put to rest this notion that Bush is a “popular” president whose second term is taken as fact. The latest Gallup poll pegged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}