Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Bush Approval Ratings Tank

Bush: Job Ratings

The proportion of Americans who approve of the job the President is doing continues to recede. Support is evaporating. Resentment and dissatisfaction grows. The numbers?

ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Sept. 8-11, 2005.
Approve 42% Disapprove 57%

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey. Sept. 8-11, 2005.
Approve 40% Disapprove 52%

Newsweek Poll. Sept. 8-9, 2005.
Approve 38% Disapprove 55%

Time Poll. Sept. 7-8, 2005.
Approve 42% Disapprove 52%

Associated Press/Ipsos poll. Sept. 6-8, 2005.
Approve 39% Disapprove 59%

CBS News Poll. Sept. 6-7, 2005.
Approve 42% Disapprove 52%

How about Iraq? How is he handling that?

ABC News/Washington Post Poll.
Sept. 8-11, 2005.
Approve 38% Disapprove 62%

Newsweek Poll. Sept. 8-9, 2005.
Approve 36% Disapprove 60%

CBS News Poll. Sept. 6-7, 2005.
Approve 35% Disapprove 60%

But Katrina--surely Americans support his handling of the worst natural disaster in US history?

ABC News/Washington Post Poll.
Sept. 8-11, 2005.
Approve 44% Disapprove 54%

Newsweek Poll. Sept. 8-9, 2005.
Approve 37% Disapprove 57%

Well, how about Bush's handling of the oil crisis?

ABC News/Washington Post Poll.
Sept. 8-11, 2005.
Approve 25% Disapprove 72%

Associated Press/Ipsos poll. Sept. 6-8, 2005.
Approve 27% Disapprove 70%

Zogby America Poll. Sept. 6-7, 2005.
Approve 21% Disapprove 75%

CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. Aug. 28-30, 2005.
Approve 20% Disapprove 76%


Can someone explain to me, in this culture of "personal responsibility," why Americans are not holding the President accountable for his ineptitude, lies, and dereliction of duty?

I didn't think so.

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