{"id":4898,"date":"2005-08-05T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4898.html"},"modified":"2005-08-05T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T14:00:30","slug":"more-polls-more-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/more-polls-more-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More polls, more bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Bush was hoping that last week’s flurry of legislative activity would boost his public standing a bit, he’s sorely disappointed<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

Americans’ approval of President Bush’s handling of Iraq is at its lowest level yet, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that also found fewer than half now think he’s honest. <\/p>\n

A solid majority still see Bush as a strong and likable leader, though the president’s confidence is seen as arrogance by a growing number.<\/p>\n

Approval of Bush’s handling of Iraq, which had been hovering in the low- to mid-40s most of the year, dipped to 38 percent. Midwesterners and young women and men with a high school education or less were most likely to abandon Bush on his handling of Iraq in the last six months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bush’s overall job approval was at 42%, with 55% disapproving. That is, you guessed it, the worst support of Bush’s presidency in any AP\/Ipsos poll. Also noteworthy was the decline in the public’s trust — 48% said Bush is honest, 50% said he’s not. It was the first time Bush’s honesty rating has dropped below 50% in an AP\/Ipsos poll.<\/p>\n

CBS News, meanwhile, found some interesting results this week with questions on the Plame scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When asked about the significance of the controversy to the nation, a combined 80% of the public said the scandal is important, with 41% of respondents saying it’s of “great importance.” So much for the GOP talking point that no one cares about this story outside the DC Beltway.<\/p>\n

And following up on the president’s credibility problem, when people were asked if Bush administration officials have been honest in their statements about the controversy, only 12% of respondents said the Bush gang is “telling the entire truth,” while 55% said they’re “hiding something” and 22% said they are “mostly lying.”<\/p>\n

Slowly but surely, the public seems to be coming around. They’re nine months too late<\/a>, but maybe it’ll help with midterms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Bush was hoping that last week’s flurry of legislative activity would boost his public standing a bit, he’s sorely disappointed today. Americans’ approval of President Bush’s handling of Iraq is at its lowest level yet, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that also found fewer than half now think he’s honest. A solid majority still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","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=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}