Friday, December 08, 2006

A New Low--30% Approve, 68% DISAPPROVE

Heh.

Support for the President waned in key demographic groups, the Zogby poll shows. Among all Republicans, just 60% gave him a positive job rating, while 39% gave him negative marks. Just 9% of Democrats and 22% of political independents gave him good marks for his work. Among married respondents – typically a group who favors Republicans – just 35% said Bush was doing a positive job. Among men, another favorable GOP demographic, just 31% gave him positive marks, while 69% gave him a negative rating. Even among stalwart Born Again respondents, just 43% had positive ratings for the President on his overall job performance.

Twenty-two percent approval among independents?? Sixty-nine percent disapproval among men?? We're heading to Nixon Watergate territory, folks! I believe the Republican Party will pay a terrible price for having put this ill-qualified boob in the White House. The Republicans will deserve every pounding they get. In 2000, they put someone on the ticket who was literally no more than a name, a man who shouldn't be running a K-Mart, much less the United States of America. The Republicans showed their contempt for us and their contempt for the country itself. And now they're stuck with him. Hell, I hear there's even talk that Bush won't be asked to speak at the 2008 Republican convention. No candidate for office wants to be seen with him. He's the political kiss of death.
I say he ends up with the lowest approval rating of any president since pollsters began measuring popularity. What do you think?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I don't know whether he'll end up with the lowest recorded approval rating, but he certainly deserves it. He has been just abysmal.

On the other hand, to my mind putting Bush on the ticket in 2000 (and having him elected) is about the least offensive thing the republicans - at least the republicans who call the shots - have done in the last 6 years. Really, Bush is almost insignificant compared to the stunts the republican congress has so far gotten away with just about scott-free. You know what I mean - you write about their antics quite frequently. Even the war has many aspects that fall under congress' purview, and they've been grossly irresponsible with respect to them.

Anyway, I bring it up because I'm afraid that by and large there's too much focus on Bush as the ultimate culprit here. I would hate for Bush to act as a shield for the terrible 109th congress. I suppose that given the midterm election results, it's less likely than I had feared. Still, I don't want Bush to be alone when he's raked over the coals.