{"id":4114,"date":"2005-05-03T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T14:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4114.html"},"modified":"2005-05-03T10:51:59","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T14:51:59","slug":"yet-another-bad-poll-for-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/yet-another-bad-poll-for-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another bad poll for Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

As with every poll released in the last couple of months, if there’s good news in the latest USA Today\/CNN\/Gallup poll<\/a> for the Bush White House, it’s hiding very well.<\/p>\n

* Approval rating<\/i> — Bush’s approval rating remains at 48%, which is exactly where it was a month ago. The percentage of poll respondents who disapprove is up to 49%, up slightly from the first week in April.<\/p>\n

* The issues<\/i> — Americans disapprove of Bush’s handling of just about everything, including foreign affairs (45-49), the economy (43-53), Iraq (42-55), Social Security (35-58), and energy policy (34-52).<\/p>\n

* Social Security<\/i> — Not only is support for Bush’s handling of Social Security down, Americans also oppose private accounts (44-52), oppose cutting benefits (38-54), and trust Dems more than Republicans on the issue (46-36). Perhaps most importantly, when poll respondents were asked how they’d like to see Social Security’s long-term future ensured, they chose raising taxes to cutting benefits, 53% to 38%. In other words, Americans support the opposite<\/i> of Bush’s approach.<\/p>\n

* Judicial nominees<\/i> — A clear majority supports use of the filibuster against judicial nominees (52-40), while in the overall fight, people say they generally favor the Dems over the Republicans (45-36).<\/p>\n

* Religious Right<\/i> — The number of people who believe the “Christian conservative movement” has too much influence over Republicans continues to grow. A month ago, 39% said the religious right had too much sway over the GOP, while 33% said the movement had the right amount of influence. Now, 43% say it has too much influence, while 28% say it has the right amount.<\/p>\n

The news isn’t all good for Dems — the public, for example, isn’t crazy about how either party is handling their jobs in Congress — but on the whole, this is the kind of poll that offers Republicans practically no good news or signs of encouragement.<\/p>\n

Now, if only the midterm elections weren’t 18 months away….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As with every poll released in the last couple of months, if there’s good news in the latest USA Today\/CNN\/Gallup poll for the Bush White House, it’s hiding very well. * Approval rating — Bush’s approval rating remains at 48%, which is exactly where it was a month ago. The percentage of poll respondents who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}