More Bad Polls For Bush
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Polls
Polls often lie, but not when they’re so consistently telling the President that the American public thinks he’s just doing an awful job of it.
Support for President Bush’s management of the Iraq war has dropped to an all-time low even as his overall approval remains tepid but steady, according to a CNN poll released Monday.The survey, conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp., found support for Bush’s handling of the Iraq conflict has decreased to 28 percent from 34 percent in a poll taken October 13-15.
And a record 70 percent of respondents said they disapproved of Bush’s war management, up from 64 percent in the October poll.
Meanwhile, Bush’s overall job approval was 36 percent — down only 1 percentage point from the previous CNN poll to pose that question December 5-7.
Sixty-two percent said they disapproved of his performance in office, up from 57 percent in the early December poll.
He could turn this sentiment around and try to build bridges, but he’s just too damn partisan and too damn stubborn.
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December 20th, 2006 at 11:58 am
At a certain point I’m not sure sure if these polls aren’t merely commentary on PREVIOUS polls rather than measuring any real change out there. At this point you would need to have something dramatic happen (for good or ill) before a poll could tell us anything new.
The public view sunk into a deep pessimism over Iraq earlier and hasn’t moved since.
Of course it goes without saying that if next months poll has the number go back to 34 percent we wont be seeing the headline “President’s Poll Numbers Improve”
December 20th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Partisan? stuborn? No, just ignorance and poor planning.
It isn’t partisan politics, it is a lack of direction. The poor guys on the ground in Iraq have no game plan, no substantial or meaningful definition of victory.
http://www.gotuit.com/player/index.html?c=SM_People&t=4698&s=42659
This is what happens when no means of measuring improvement or failure are available. The word stuck comes to mind. Their minds are wandering, their hope is wanning, their lives are dissappearing, and their deffinition of success has become, “Destroying a building to kill one sniper, you win for the day.”
These are not solutions, more troops is not a solution, A definitive goal is the solution, and the president, and planners and other guys at the top have failed to define that: expect more torture, more failure until sucess is clearly defined!
December 24th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
http://www.enewsreference.com
The fundamental question in all this: when America is attacked by a global enemy, A. Do you want the President to be polite, or B. Do you want him to go and tear something up and ask questions later. Polls showed the American people wanted to be excessive in its retaliation on states suspected of sponsoring terror. When it appeared that Senator John Kerry was weak and he wasn’t as handsome as Bush they gave Bush a victory in 2004.
The truth is, thank God Bush has been punished for being excessive and for blood shed thousands of miles away. The Bush administration has been operating on a different series of thinking away from the media and public opinion polls that will be made clear when documents are declassified. During George W. Bush’s watch thus far, we’ve paid a huge price, but immediately after 911 the threat was paying a huge insurmountable cost of tremendous casualties and Bush responded.
The ’swagger’ of Bush now is that in having far reaching and controversial policies American and its Allies have the upper hand on the wider war on terror. Now he has the ticket to scale back and in the process repair America’s reputation with moderate states.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
First of all, do the polls really mean anything at all? During Regan’s era the newspapers were shouting against him in all of his actions. Despite the resistance he pushed through used force and came through for us in the Cold War. More troops are definitely the answer because thats where influence comes from, power. Look to WW2, Vietnam, Project Desert Storm and if you can say that excessive force wasn’t the answer than you’re an idiot. The polls don’t mean squat because most of America doesn’t have a clue whats happening in the world and jump on the Left’s newspaper bandwagon.