30%
That’s George W. Bush’s job approval rating according to Zogby International.
While overall, 30% gave Bush positive marks for his leadership of the nation, 69% gave him negative ratings. Sixty-one percent of Republicans gave Bush positive marks, compared with just 7% of Democrats and 20% of self-described independents. In December, 60% of Republicans gave Bush positive ratings, compared with 9% of Democrats and 22% of independents. Bush enjoys higher job performance ratings from women (35%) than from men (25%), our polling shows.
DownWithTyranny has more polls. The general idea: not good for Bush.
Bush’s Presidency has been (or still is) one of the strangest Presidencies in the history of the United States regarding public support. If my memory serves me well, his approval ratings were once around 90%. Now they’re way down to 30%.
9 Responses to “30%”
Does it really matter what President Bush’s opinion polls are. He is in the last two years of his presidency and whatever happens just does not matter. He can make no more policy decisions and cannot start anything new.
The only thing that matters is what size of lose the Republicans are going to take in 2008. Will the Democrats win more than 60 seatsin the Senate while routing the Republican nominee for the White House and win totaly control of the government?
It’s called blowing your mandate.
Bush’s approval ratings were nothing to brag about prior to the 9/11 attacks because he had done nothing to brag about. His ratings shot up to an astronomical 92 percent in some polls after 9/11 because Americans (myself included) rallied around him.
The biggest reason for that extraordinary 62 percent drop since 9/11 is that Bush has failed to deliver on anything of consequence and the Iraq war, which is about to enter its fifth year is testimony to his profound shortcomings as a president and commander and chief and the fact that he has proven himself to be a really lousy liar.
That decline may be strange, but it’s not unprecedented.
George Sr. had poll numbers up around 90% around the time of the first Gulf War. About 2 years later they had dropped to less thatn 30%.
I don’t recall the exact figures as it wasn’t poll numbers that had my attention (and that of my college roommates)as much as the rumor of an impending draft and casualties of up to 20,000.
Alan
Strange? 3000 dead, 23000 wounded, Afghanistan falling back into the hands of our enemies, tax breaks for the rich, Katrina, The Military Commissions act, torture, the country’s chemical plants still unguarded 6 years after 9/11, CIA agents outed, the care of veterans outsourced, the army at breaking point, over $405 billion spent on the Iraq war and climbing, an inherited surplus of $230 billion now a deficit of $477 billion…..
Strange? Like what? The sun coming up, leaves reappearing after the fall, my kid getting taller?
Click here for Gallup’s detailed analysis of Bush’s approval ratings.
Its not that unusual for a president’s ratings to soar and then drop into the 30′s. But it is unusual for them to stay there. Bush’s low ratings have persisted since Katrina, mostly because of Iraq. His core base of support will never leave him though, so you won’t see them falling any lower.
It’s amazing his approval ratings haven’t dropped lower. There has been more than enough evidence to impeach this President many times over.
Chris- The 30% believe in him and what he’s doing, whether he’s been successful at it or not. Many of his supporters have been the beneficiaries of his tax cuts, many have used the era of deregulation of business to consolidate wealth. Still others are evangelicals.
They blame his failures on the media and the left, not on his own reckless decisions, misplaced loyalties or poor management skills. I think he’s proven over and over that he was not fit to be president. At least to the rest of us.
I’m proud to have been in the 9/12/01 eight percent. America, yes. Bush, no.