Bush's approval way down

[MTAtech]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...al_103103.html

On every issue, except the war on terrorism, Bush's approval ratings are either even or disapproving of his performance.

[shahani]

...his performance.

A more accurate way would be to characterise this Presidency as Non Performing".

These numbers are not enought to decisively get him out next year. He can still finangle stuff like in 2000. That's the bad news.

The good news is we still have over a year for him to continue on his path of self-destruction. He has cornered himself between a rock and a hard place.

[J-Excel]

Way down from where? The euphoric highs after the start of the two wars? His ratings look pretty even with his pre-9/11 ratings. It's all relative.

[MTAtech]

Perhaps, but this is before the campaign started. A 54% approval rating when his opponent is not even known. According to the Zogby poll http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=747
people want someone else by a margin of 50%-42.

Hopefully, Lincoln was right. 'You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.' Of course, Bush only needs to fool a majority of the Electoral College.

[shahani]

No, he doesn't need to fool them.

When he can finangle it.

Like Jeb and he did three years ago.

[J-Excel]

I hear Dean's approval rating is way up, especially with redneck racists.

[MTAtech]

I'd rather have them voting for Dean instead of Bush. It would be great if those 'Confederate flag pickup truck driving types' voted for Dean because their kids don't have health care and the urban minorities voted for Dean because of his progressive civil rights views.

Just because someone has the wrong views on civil rights doesn't mean they don't deserve health care (especially dental care).

This is what Dean said:
"We have working white families in the South voting for tax cuts for the richest one percent while their children remain with no health care," said Dean. "The dividing of working people by race has been a cornerstone of Republican politics for the last three decades. For my fellow Democratic opponents to sink to this level is really tragic. The only way we're going to beat George Bush is if Southern white working families and African-American working families come together under the Democratic tent, as they did under FDR."

[J-Excel]

No, that was his back-peddling cover-his-butt statement. What he said was...

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.

In response his opponents in the Democratic primary race lambasted him for appealing to bigots. That prompted the CYA response you quoted.

[implexant]

Yet another left winged poll operated by left winged media to support the left winged agenda. Bush doesn't give a rip about polls and won't change his morals as a result of it. And I highly doubt Dean will get elected.

-Chris

[daveleau]

My question is not why, but why the American people are so stupid to follow what the media is dishing out. (That is assuming the poll is somewhat correct. It IS from the Wash Post, one of the most liberal papers out there. They ought to call it the Democrat's Post.)

The economy continues to rebound from the recession he inherited from Clinton and from 9/11 (also inherited by Clinton). We've won 2 wars and are in the process of rebuilding both nations for the betterment of each nation. Besides the constant coverage of the terror attacks by the Iranians and Syrians in Iraq, there's not a whole lot bad.

...unless of course if you are upset at our Commander in Chief's wardrobe on board the aircraft carrier. The things Democrats pick to pick on him about are hilarious! It's not like there aren't more important issues out there... Like repealing the tax cuts that are getting this country righted again... Another Democrat's bungle to be (if the American people are duped into electing one of the Democrats)