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jetdawgg
06-21-07, 02:21 PM
<H2>President Bush registers the lowest approval rating of his presidency—making him the least popular president since Nixon—in the new NEWSWEEK Poll.

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Iraq isn't the only issue dragging Bush's approval ratings down
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WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Marcus Mabry
Newsweek

Updated: 11:49 a.m. ET June 21, 2007
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June 21, 2007 - In 19 months, George W. Bush will leave the White House for the last time. The [URL="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19354100/site/newsweek/) suggests that he faces a steep climb if he hopes to coax the country back to his side before he goes. In the new poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday nights, President Bush’s approval rating has reached a record low. Only 26 percent of Americans, just over one in four, approve of the job the 43rd president is doing; while, a record 65 percent disapprove, including nearly a third of Republicans.

The new numbers—a 2 point drop from the last NEWSWEEK Poll at the beginning of May—are statistically unchanged, given the poll’s 4 point margin of error. But the 26 percent rating puts Bush lower than Jimmy Carter, who sunk to his nadir of 28 percent in a Gallup poll in June 1979. In fact, the only president in the last 35 years to score lower than Bush is Richard Nixon. Nixon’s approval rating tumbled to 23 percent in January 1974, seven months before his resignation over the botched Watergate break-in.

The war in Iraq continues to drag Bush down. A record 73 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Bush has done handling Iraq. Despite “the surge” in U.S. forces into Baghdad and Iraq’s western Anbar province, a record-low 23 percent of Americans approve of the president’s actions in Iraq, down 5 points since the end of March.

But the White House cannot pin his rating on the war alone. Bush scores record or near record lows on every major issue: from the economy (34 percent approve, 60 percent disapprove) to health care (28 percent approve, 61 percent disapprove) to immigration (23 percent approve, 63 percent disapprove). And—in the worst news, perhaps, for the crowded field of Republicans hoping to succeed Bush in 2008—50 percent of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of terrorism and homeland security. Only 43 percent approve, on an issue that has been the GOP’s trump card in national elections since 9/11.

If there is any good news for Bush and the Republicans in the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, it’s that the Democratic-led Congress fares even worse than the president. Only 25 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.

In the scariest news for the Democratic candidates seeking their party’s nomination in 2008, even rank-and-file Democrats are unhappy with Congress, which is narrowly controlled by their party. Only 27 percent of Democrats approve of the job Congress is doing, a statistically insignificant difference from the 25 percent of Republicans and 25 percent of independents who approve of Congress.

Overall, 63 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing, including 60 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of Independents. Apparently, voters aren’t happy with anyone in Washington these days.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19352087/site/newsweek



Looks to be more than Jet, 10Z and erased.....

SGTBrentG
06-21-07, 02:31 PM
The funny thing is that even less approve of the job Congress is doing.....

Oh yeah, that's not what this thread is about. Sorry.

HOLM
06-21-07, 02:33 PM
New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low

http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27946

Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.
This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994.
Congress is now nestled at the bottom of the list of Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions rankings, along with HMOs. Just 15% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in HMOs.


But the current 14% confidence rating for Congress is down from 19% last year and is the lowest in Gallup’s history, surpassing the 18% confidence in Congress measured in 1991, 1993 and 1994




http://media.gallup.com/POLL/Releases/pr070621i.gif





HGAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA....


The MEDIA, and CONGRESS... Beat the President HANDS DOWN...

jetdawgg
06-21-07, 02:33 PM
They are trying to beat him to zero

drumcorpssnare
06-21-07, 02:35 PM
:D You three (jet, 10thz, & erased) have been "padding" those polls, haven't ya?
Do the math. There's 40,000+ Marines on this forum...and 3 of them think Bush is an idiot. Let's see...that leaves....(just a minute. Gotta take my shoes and socks off...) 39,997 Marines who think we're doin' the right thing over there.:banana:
drumcorpssnare:usmc:

jetdawgg
06-21-07, 02:43 PM
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u17/jetdawgg/Sheeple20Watch20Fox20News.jpg

still has a lead over congress inthe race to zero...

jetdawgg
06-21-07, 03:00 PM
:D You three (jet, 10thz, & erased) have been "padding" those polls, haven't ya?
Do the math. There's 40,000+ Marines on this forum...and 3 of them think Bush is an idiot. Let's see...that leaves....(just a minute. Gotta take my shoes and socks off...) 39,997 Marines who think we're doin' the right thing over there.:banana:
drumcorpssnare:usmc:

The Poll on the Home Page suggest that more than 3 Marines think like Jet, erased and 10Z....

It is at 60% against and been there for some time now.....with 15% on the fence.

The rest resmebles the presidents approval ratings

Sgt Leprechaun
06-21-07, 03:21 PM
And just how many times did YOU vote? LOL

jetdawgg
06-21-07, 03:25 PM
http://www.rightwinged.com/images/photoshops/alitodems.jpg

HOLM
06-21-07, 03:43 PM
The Poll on the Home Page suggest that more than 3 Marines think like Jet, erased and 10Z....

It is at 60% against and been there for some time now.....with 15% on the fence.

The rest resmebles the presidents approval ratings

HUMMMM


Will the Baghdad offensive increase support of the war?

jetdawgg
06-21-07, 03:45 PM
HUMMMM


Will the Baghdad offensive increase support of the war?





No is the 60% number

HOLM
06-21-07, 03:52 PM
Yeah Jet... and what...

Ahhh never mind.. If you can't read I can't help you..

jetdawgg
06-21-07, 03:55 PM
Yeah Jet... and what...

Ahhh never mind.. If you can't read I can't help you..

I've been doing quite well w/o your help.....thanks

erased
06-21-07, 04:00 PM
In support of congress? I have less confidence than most, even here, in our current government across the board, especially the House and Senate.

HOLM
06-21-07, 04:02 PM
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HOLM
06-21-07, 04:16 PM
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/Harry_Reid_Book_HowTo.gif

jetdawgg
06-21-07, 04:35 PM
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/reid%20and%20clinton.jpg

jetdawgg
06-21-07, 04:37 PM
http://www.chiensderace.com/images/cliparts/droopy.gifhttp://static.firedoglake.com/2006/10/reid-boycott_2.jpg

ggyoung
06-21-07, 05:35 PM
Heres my take on this Pres bush has provided good things for the troops. I personly would not trust him to lead a boy scout troop across the street.

yellowwing
06-21-07, 05:45 PM
Heres my take on this Pres bush has provided good things for the troops. I personly would not trust him to lead a boy scout troop across the street.
Well thank goodness and our merciless Drill Instructors that we are better trained than Boy Scouts! :banana:

bootlace15
06-21-07, 06:51 PM
make that 4, I don't think President Bush is doing a very good job either......There is way to much politics in this war. For crying out load there have been many many fuk ups by himself and members of Congress. They could'nt be on the same page no matter what WE try to tell them. If President Bush is doing the good job everyone here thinks,then why in hell did he wait so long to send the troops required to get the job done.
There are other issues as well that indicate his job performance sucks,not just on Iraq......................

bootlace15 out

poor advisors lead to a poor performance by the President

10thzodiac
06-21-07, 08:14 PM
make that 4, I don't think President Bush is doing a very good job either......There is way to much politics in this war. For crying out load there have been many many fuk ups by himself and members of Congress. They could'nt be on the same page no matter what WE try to tell them. If President Bush is doing the good job everyone here thinks,then why in hell did he wait so long to send the troops required to get the job done.
There are other issues as well that indicate his job performance sucks,not just on Iraq......................

bootlace15 out

poor advisors lead to a poor performance by the President

Where was General Pace, besides Rumsfelds stooge in green ? ? ?

redneck13
06-23-07, 09:16 AM
:evilgrin: MR. BUSH? SAY WHAT? It's...."PRESIDENT BUSH, NOT MR." Get it right. Even if you don't like him, you still call him "PRESIDENT" not "MR."

erased
06-23-07, 12:54 PM
Then why do we always refer to him as the Honorable Mr. Bush?

Mr. is a sign of respect.

ggyoung
06-23-07, 01:05 PM
To me it always be bush. Nothing more and nothing less. I have to respect the title of the Pres. I do not have to respect the man. Respect is earned not givin. All farmer Marines can think of at lest 2-3 officers they had that were pricks. You respected the rank he heald not the man.

Sgt Leprechaun
06-25-07, 10:01 AM
True. The same reason I usually don't capitalize clinton/gore etc. That pendulum swings both ways.