{"id":7184,"date":"2006-04-19T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2006-04-19T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:15:00","slug":"bushs-feeble-poll-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bushs-feeble-poll-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush’s feeble poll position"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bad news is, Josh Bolten appears to be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The good news is they [tag]Bush[\/tag] gang, at this point, has nowhere to go but up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Bush’s job-approval rating slipped for the third consecutive month and remains near the lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive [tag]poll[\/tag].<\/p>\n

Thirty-five percent of 1,008 U.S. adults surveyed in the telephone poll think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, down from 36% in March and significantly lower than 43% in January. This compares with 63% of Americans who said Mr. Bush is doing an “only fair or poor” job, down from 64% in March.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, pessimism about the direction of U.S. policies appears to be growing. Only 27% of Americans believe “things in this country are going in the right direction,” a drop from 31% in March, according to the poll.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not the only new poll showing the same results. A new Gallup poll<\/a> shows Bush stuck with extremely low [tag]support[\/tag].<\/p>\n

A new Gallup Poll, conducted April 10-13, 2006 finds little change in President George W. Bush’s overall job [tag]approval rating[\/tag]s, with 36% of Americans saying they approve and 59% saying they disapprove. The current 36% approval ties for the lowest of Bush’s entire administration. Overall, Bush’s job approval ratings have been extremely steady since February, ranging between 36% and 38% across the five most recent polls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A majority disapproves of Bush’s job performance in every category, including his handling of the war on [tag]terrorism[\/tag]. On [tag]Iraq[\/tag], support has dropped to 32% approve, 65% disapprove.<\/p>\n

And just for good measure, I thought I’d add that the latest SurveyUSA 50-state poll<\/a> is out — and there’s nothing encouraging for Bush there either. He enjoys majority support in just four states (Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Nebraska), and has fallen to 40% or lower in 15 states that backed him in the 2004 election (including a stunning 34% in Ohio).<\/p>\n

By now, news like this is dog-bites-man, but as readers know, I like to offer a morale boost from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bad news is, Josh Bolten appears to be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The good news is they [tag]Bush[\/tag] gang, at this point, has nowhere to go but up. President Bush’s job-approval rating slipped for the third consecutive month and remains near the lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new […]<\/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-7184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184","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=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}