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Bush’s Job Approval Rating Hits New Low

Posted on Apr 10, 2006

Sixty percent disapprove of the president’s performance—47% “strongly” disapprove, according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Washington Post:

Bush’s Job Approval Rating Hits New Low
Forty-Seven Percent of Americans ‘Strongly’ Disapprove of Handling of the Presidency

By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, April 10, 2006; 5:54 PM

Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush’s standing with the public to a new low, at the same time Republican fortunes on Capitol Hill are also deteriorating, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The new survey found that 38 percent of the public approved of the job Bush is doing as president, down 3 percentage points in the past month and his worst showing in Post-ABC polling since he became president. Sixty percent disapproved of his performance.

With less than seven months remaining before voters go to the polls, Bush’s political troubles already appear to be casting a long shadow on the mid-term elections. Barely a third of registered voters, 35 percent, approves of the way the Republican-held Congress is doing its job—the lowest level of support in nine years.

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By WaveRunr, April 24, 2006 at 11:42 am #
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I am sure a lot of people feel this way - the democratic party can thank George Bush for making me a democrat. Is anyone doing better today that they were when this idiot took office.

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By candide, April 18, 2006 at 2:35 pm #
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Forget the polls. Let’s march to the White House and take that bastard out! Do it the French way—on the nearest lamppost.

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By AmeriPundit, April 10, 2006 at 10:21 pm #
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Just remember: Bush doesn’t listen to the polls, the pols, and the poles. Heck, he doesn’t even listen to the “Poles”, the “Eye-talians”, or others that come from “there”.

“Men of Vision”, like Bush, need no guidance from those too unsophisticated to understand the way the world works. Too many of those polled don’t realize that “everything changed after 9-11” which means that we should be quiet, shop, not bitch about wage inequity, and not speak up when dropped off the unemployment rolls after 33 seconds, etc.- pick your category(ies).

Too many of those polled don’t realize that “they” are out to “destroy our way of life”- you know, the one that Bush and we all share (limos, 747’s, bodyguards up the wazoo, loans from the mideast after our businesses fail, 366 days off per year, the best health care that taxpayer money can buy, etc.).

That’s why we should just shut up and “eat our cake” (or sh*t pie) and pay our taxes.

And to think… some of us actually studied and worked hard to get ahead in life… were/are civically minded…

Turns out that was all a waste of time and we are a waste of space.

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By J. M. Deutch, April 10, 2006 at 10:03 pm #
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What difference does it make if it isn’t election day?

Remember at this time in 2004, 45% said they would not vote for Bush under any circumstances and Abu Ghraib was all over the news.

That’s why I say the Democrats are going to lose in 2006, they just haven’t figured out how yet.

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By gung din, April 10, 2006 at 8:33 pm #
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My, my, how long is it going to take for the American public to wake up? How much more destruction, incompetence, lies, corruption, ignorance and religious intolerance do we have to see before we say enough, that is not the America I envisioned for my children.

Coud these numbers mean that the giant has awaken from its sleep? I can only wish it is so.

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