Bush Approval Rating Continues to Drop (Gallup: 40% approve/56% dis)

to his approval ratings

We ought to harness the power of the plunge as a renewable energy source.

But that bastard's still in office

term.

A certain Tom Petty song comes to mind.

Don't Come Around Here No More

...sorry...

:evilgrin:

I happen to like "I Won't Back Down" - always sing that one at the top of my lungs when my favorite classic rock station plays it. And I always personalize it to the First Dog-Dropper.

oh, forgot, that was when SCOTUS installed him.

Vice President has no war powers but it was the nervous conservative magazine who first wrote that Cheney was ordering war plans to nuke Iran to be drawn up last month and the same magazine reported that the Airforce was getting nervous about it but afraid to say anything because of their careers. What about their children and the future of the world?

If Cheney is not even nominally going through Bush to draw up war plans and the VP has no war powers, if Bush suddenly becomes incapacitated and Fitzgerald goes ahead with indictments...

I hope Fitzgerald does because I thing the insane PNAC Grand Chessboard plan will be ordered anyway. I do hope the generals appear at Bush AND CHENEY'S DOORSTEP SOON!!!

I missed the PBS show on Fitzgerald, looks like he's coming above the radar, is there a thread about the PBS show, would like to know what people think of the PBS program and of Fitz going for the limelight a little maybe to prevent any more bombings of the subway station beneath the Dirkson building.

Does anyone know anything about the 2 other Grand Juries in different cities that are investigating Bushco crimes? Bushco must not have the power if they were not able to get bush's bonesman classmate in Fitzgerald's bosses position but an independent, I think.

Fitz is so important and because he seems to be beginning to let the American people know about his and the Grand Juries 2 years of investigation, we should be talking about it.

While I drink my 40oz.

:toast:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1730269&mesg_id=1730269

Keep in mind that Fitzgerald's inquiry has yet to factor in. Once that story plays out, * is toast.

Doesn't look like his approval is falling, it looks like he sucked all year.

is a dick. :shrug:

But then again, that's assuming he has a heart to begin with.

You know it's lower than that.

consistently tends to survey more republi-CONS than Democrats, a good rule of thumb is to deduct about five percentage points to get a more accurate picture? That'd put him at 35 percent - realistically.

One can try like hell, but it is near impossible to polish a turd.

It's Time to Demand More Polls on Impeaching Bush
By Bob Fertik
Created 2005-08-24 02:09

On June 30, a Zogby poll found 42% of Americans said "if it is found that President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should hold him accountable through impeachment."

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1007

According to the Washington Post, even pollster John Zogby "couldn't believe his eyes." "It was much higher than I expected," Zogby said.

Despite the explosiveness of this poll - or because of it - the poll received virtually no media coverage. A week later, Washington Post blogger Dan Froomkin wrote:

More than four in 10 Americans, according to a recent Zogby poll, say that if President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment.

But you wouldn't know it from following the news. Only three mainstream outlets that I can find made even cursory mention of the poll last week when it came out.

You also wouldn't know it judging from the political discourse in Washington, but that makes a little more sense. After all, impeachment is for all practical purposes a political act, not a legal one. So with a Republican-controlled Congress that doesn't even like to perform basic White House oversight, it's basically a moot point.

Nevertheless, could there be anything that 42 percent of Americans agree on that the media care about so little?At the time, Bush's approval rating was just 43%. Since then, Bush's approval has dropped even lower - down to 36%.

It's time for other pollsters to follow up on the Zogby Poll and to ask about impeaching George Bush. When the Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, just about every pollster in the business started polling on impeachment:

http://democrats.com/clinton-impeachment-polls

So why is Bush being treated differently?

Here's what you can do:

1) Write Zogby (marketing@zogby.com) to thank them for asking about impeachment in June, and encourage them to keep asking the question.

2) Write all the other major pollsters and ask them why they haven't asked voters about impeaching Bush:

netaudr@abc.com, info@ipsos-na.com, info@americanresearchgroup.com, evening@cbsnews.com, media_inquiries@gallup.com, info@edisonresearch.com, info@field.com, askfox@fox.com, comments@foxnews.com, Info@harrisinteractive.com, timespoll@latimes.com, maristpoll@marist.edu, nightly@nbc.com, nytnews@nytimes.com, letters@newsweek.com, info@people-press.org, Info@rasmussenreports.com, tarrance@tarrance.com, pollinginstitute@quinnipiac.edu, editor@usatoday.com, wsjcontact@dowjones.com, ombudsman@washpost.com

You can also use these forms:
DemocracyCorps: http://democracycorps.com/contact.html
Gallup: http://www.gallup.com/help/con

Here is a form letter you can personalize:

In 2003, George Bush invaded Iraq primarily because Iraq allegedly had Weapons of Mass Destruction that could threaten the United States.

But last October, the Duelfer Report proved there were no WMD's in Iraq in 2003. And this May, the Downing Street Memos proved the pre-war "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" to sell an illegal invasion of Iraq to Congress, the American people, and the world.

On June 30, a Zogby poll found 42% of Americans said "if it is found that President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should hold him accountable through impeachment."

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1007

Why haven't you asked Americans whether they believe Bush should be
impeached for lying about Iraq?When the Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, nearly every pollster asked about impeachment:

http://democrats.com/clinton-impeachment-polls

Why are you treating George Bush differently from Bill Clinton?
Are you biased against Democrats and towards Republicans?
Please post any non-automated responses you get below!

in the 30's and watch the Republicans freak.

Gallup is always 5 points high.

One more point and they will be feeling the burn!

I love America waking up!

Once he gets around 37% or so, the is loosing his solid base.

So in reality junior is at 32.5% and that's cutting him a lot of slack.

so say on top of that is about 15% that are so clueless, they're still not sure if it's father or son....

I'd say all are ashore that are going ashore...

:woohoo:

Party in my dorm. :party: :toast:

ET: The only downside to this is that eventually, they're going to hit the absolute minimum number of diehard supporters, and there'll be nowhere to go but up. And that day will be a disappointing one.

recent strategy meeting. “I’m the President and I’ll do whatever I goddamned please. They don’t know shit.”

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7267.shtml

:evilgrin:

There was a DU thread on the Walter Reed closing whether it was good or bad since supposedly they are building more units near the very crowded Bethesda Naval Hospital but I and others asked if combat vets needing immediate medical care would be thrown away as bush has done so often to our military.

Got an email from Code Pink, the people with Cindy in Crawford about a vigil against the closing. Code Pink has a nice website.

Seems a bit too Onion-esque to be true.

of Whatever! This song says it succinctly...

http://www.extremefunnyhumor.com/fun_whatever.htm

(Flash w/audio)

but that story rings true to me, maybe because I hate the SOB so much. But we know Bush has this messianic complex, so it's no surprise he's dismissive and vulgar to anyone who disagress with him, even inside the WH.

If you look at the party breakdown you can see how it's possible:

Republicans 82

Independents 32

Democrats 13


What's propping up his numbers is the huge % of KoolAid addicts in the Repug party. If they ever start waking up, Katy bar the door, Dubya is going to sink below 30%!

but will Gallup tell us? Is their 40% for real? I think 35% tops.

That seemed kind of low to me, but it's only 5 points less than Gallup, so we're definitely seeing erosion there. Heck, ARG actually had more Dems approving of Dumbass (17 percent) than Gallup does. But look how close the Dems and indys are in how they view Bush. Bush has alienated moderates badly.

:)

I actually had the displeasure of running into a few during the 2004 campaign.

I challenge you to a duel! Because I'm a batshit crazy inbred pigfucker! Soeeeeeeeee!

Go figure. Doesn't make any sense to me, either. I don't know how ANYBODY could support him, not simply Democrats.

(most did)..

on the Eastern Seaboard after the London attacks. Other than that, you're right: we've stayed consistently yellow since the election. I think a lot of that has to do with local & state governments objecting to the unnecessary costs when the alert levels are upped.

8% who dissaproved of the job Bush was doing (right after 9/11). Not even death and destruction can artificially pump up his ratings now.

and so much discouragement along the way...it's a good kick in the butt to remember when maybe 100 people or so were here hunkered down supporting each other while all America flew two flags on their SUV's and gave the finger to those who didn't.

so the real number is probably closer to the 36% poll we saw a while ago. If it goes down any further, we may have a sweep in 06.

sounds about right.

They won't go down en masse with this president. Watch as rightwing Repub congresspeople morph into Democrats in the next year.

So the real number is probably a bit lower.

I think we'll start seeing more polls in the 30s. ARG won't be alone.

The American People are just a big focus group, after all.

This is the people Bush listens to:

and a big fat butt. Hmmm. Well, since he's decided to meet with the ugly women first, maybe Cindy will be the last on his list. Ain't he considerrrutt to be so nice to the ugly girls?

and the American Legion in Utah haven't grown his support with the American People?? Un-friggin-believable !! :shrug:

The floodgates have opened. I didn't expect this on Gallup. I'd have to say the ARG poll was probably spot on and NOT an outlier considering Gallup's historical pro-Bush bias.

I predicted (wrongly) that Gallup would not show a drop, or even a minor bump up for Chimpy. I'm flabbergasted about this.

I wonder if CNN will trumpet these results the same way they do good polls for Chimpy? These data are a big story, they're DISASTROUS!!

There's some state to state data here:

http://www.surveyusa.com/50StatePOTUS0805.htm

I found it very interesting.

so as not to hurt Dumbya's re-election chances.

:puke:

that worries me. They are rats backed into a corner.

... and what was that story about the 4-star general who got sacked because he was trying to raise a counter to the nuke-in-the-US-and-blame-it-on-the-Iranians plan alledgedly being put together by the bushistas?

---------those of us that can't get on here as often as we wish

the repukes up for election cut and run?

...after the resolution of inquiry, what do we do to get the impeachment rolling?

1) Work like your life depended on it (however you can afford to, time-, energy-, idea-, or money-wise) for your local republi-CON to be beaten in 2006. WHOEVER it is. HOWEVER popular you fear they may be. Your fears just might be unfounded.

2) Keep a drumbeat of your own turned on, around-the-clock, to encourage the whole idea of IMPEACHMENT. Drop a mention of it wherever and whenever you can: in the checkout line at the grocery store; while waiting to pick up your dry cleaning; while waiting in the drop-off/pick-up line at school with other parents; while waiting for service at the deli counter or the burger place (or the local watering hole); while you're standing there at the self-serve pump, pumping gas (GREAT opportunity to foment unrest - nobody else there will be too pleased about what they're having to pay for gasoline, guaranteed); on line for a movie or to buy movie tickets (or for a sporting event or museum event or whatever-it-might-be); WHEREVER you happen to be standing/hanging/waiting around with other folks, either in direct conversation with them, OR within earshot. ALWAYS use that as an opportunity to put a bug in somebody's ear to start them thinking about impeachment. Many of them may think it's just not an option, or that they're all alone in their thinking about it - if they DO think about or wish for impeachment. You need to PLANT THAT SEED.

Humbly submitted from another thread here:

Seems to me you have to get subversive with these people. In the checkout line. At the dry cleaners. At the self-serve gas pump. In line for the movies. Waiting for your table at a restaurant. Waiting with the other moms and dads in the pick-up/drop-off line. At the local coffee place (where they invariably have copies of the day's newspaper lying around).

ANYWHERE you are with other people - in a situation where you can drop in a subtle little aside.

Say you see a headline on one of those newspapers that's lying around, or maybe something in one of the magazines while you're waiting for your turn at the grocery check-out. You turn absently to the next guy/girl, indicate or otherwise point to what you just spotted, shake your head in disgust, and mumble, almost absently, AND with a sigh" "(sigh) well, that's what you get when you vote Republican..." and just let your voice trail off. Maybe another shaking of the head or a dejected "tsk" sound. THEN, LET IT GO. Unless, of course, they challenge you or more innocently ask "oh really?" and then you can add a line about how we little guys ALWAYS wind up getting screwed when the Republicans get their way, or "they only look out for the rich people, not us" or "too bad we all don't have a hundred grand to send to the Republican Party, 'eh? They'd make us a priority then, wouldn't they?" or "almost 19-hundred of our kids have died over there and that bush hasn't even bothered to go to a single one of their funerals..." or "they sure talk a good game but they're nothing but reverse Robin Hoods - we've NEVER had this big a budget deficit!" or "yeah, isn't it funny how the people say leave social security alone, but they're still gonna go behind our backs and mess with it anyway" or "they can't even account for what they've spent on that STUPID war that they lied about... no wonder there's no money to solve this problem with..."

Something like that. You get the idea. Just ONE SENTENCE-worth if you get a chance to make a second remark. Even just the one "(sigh) that's what you get when you vote Republican..."

It's called planting a seed. VERY subtle. You don't even leave any fingerprints. That's how you POISON THE WELL. You leave a bad taste in their mouths IN ASSOCIATION WITH something republi-CON. Just plant the seed and then leave - and let it take root, and fester.
I thought of something else, too: Some more quick comments to make in casual encounters like these:

"MAN! Those Republicans. They're SUCH liars."

"Wonder what the excuse will be next week?" (about the war and why we went in and why we have to stay)

"Oh great, we need to keep sending more of our kids to die to honor the kids we already sent to die."
OR
"Yeah... (sigh)... we've just GOT TO send more of our kids to die for a lie."
OR
"Wonder how badly he'd want to keep the war going if his daughters were over there..." (about the "stay the course" crap)

"All that's missing here is one of those Jon Lovitz lines - 'yeah...THAT'S the ticket!'"
OR
"bush sounds just like Jon Lovitz - 'yeah...THAT'S the ticket'"
OR (how to sound authentic and innocent - like a REAL civilian
"he sounds just like that 'Saturday Night Live' guy who lied all the time - remember? 'Yeah...THAT'S the ticket!'" (about anything bush says - reinforce his being a LIAR)

"Yeah, and I'm sure Jesus is telling him to kill." (about any attempt to portray bush as being somehow anointed by God)

"Why doesn't he just act like a man and go meet with her? Afraid or somethin'?" (about Cindy Sheehan)

"All those 'Yay-War' people - seems to me we've ALREADY heard more than enough from them."
OR
"Yeah. Those 'Yay-War' people. We TRIED IT their way. Look where it's gotten us." (about the anti-Cindy, and YES - "Yay-War" people - VERY important to cast them in an UNFAVORABLE light. Call 'em what they are: "Yay-War" people)

Just some thoughts. Or - okay - TALKING POINTS.


From DU thread:
How to win the red states
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2037328

3) When your preferred candidate DOES win, that's when you call their office, and remind them or their staffers of everything you did to help him/her win, and that NOW you expect something for all your effort and trouble and desperately hard and ardent work. They need to know that they owe you now, and that you're holding them to it. And hopefully they'll wash into Congress and/or the Senate in January 2007 with a taste for justice - and that they'll have a LOT of like-minded company.

But it's gonna take work...

Welcome to DU, jahyarain! Now, get busy...

Published: August 26, 2005 3:15 PM ET

NEW YORK A new Gallup poll released today finds President George W. Bush's approval rating decline sharply to a new low, 40%, with 56% expressing disapproval. His previous low point was 44%, one month ago.

(snip)

The current Gallup poll finds a strong drop in support from independents, to 32%, and even some erosion in his Republican base (though still strong at 82%).

Bush's current approval rating stands far below those for every other second term president at this point, save for Richard Nixon (34%). At this stage, for example, in August 1997, Bill Clinton's approval rating stood at 61%.


(more)

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001022496

Is it possible to have a negative rating, like -20%.

well liked president? Every time I heard it I would explode. I gave up watching TV news and talk shows because of it.

I wish.

Televise * at a tavern getting faced with the locals, and after a couple of hours, let everyone see what he's REALLY like --- unplugged and unscripted.

Hee!

But maybe mommie bush does.

Come on down Mommie Bush.....show us some more of
your panic driven philosophies of how to save your war mongering baby boy one more time!!!

I know how I am going to celebrate! :beer:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3923658

I remember way back when Colt 45 came in a 45 ounce bottle. Now, I usually stick to tall cans of Natural Ice when I'm going for the cheap stuff.

MojoXN

There is no way that this demons numbers are still at 40%--I would be surprised if 30% approve of the SOB.

Dya think if he gets below 30 that the Repugs will impeach him?

If even Gallup is only giving him 40% publicly, what do you suppose the raw numbers look like? :hurts:

maybe of the Opus Day variety. They were very conservative Republicans...when I lived in Princeton, NJ where the family had kids in a catholic school a friend of mine's kids attended.

You don't approve of him now, that's ok, but why couldn't you see this in November?

Very disappointing.

But of course, I am not directing this at you guys :)

You're only discovering buyers' remorse NOW? Nice of ya to wake up, chumps. Go ahead and raise hell and get indignant and complain. You had a chance to do something about it last November. But you were too obsessed with them queers gettin' married.

I'd like to say they deserve what they get, but unfortunately, we've been dragged onto that same foundering boat with them. I guess it's nice that they are starting to wake up - but these are people who can be easily manipulated and distracted, so I'm hesitant about when they'll fall for the next line of bullshit and turn the numbers around.

Guys, since these are people who tend to be favorably predisposed toward this schmuck (somehow they see him as just a golly-gee, nice, friendly, well-meaning, average-Joe guy like themselves :grr:), we HAVE TO start poisoning the well AGAINST HIM. AGAINST HIM. We have to start doing EVERYTHING we can think of, on a subtle, subversive level, to make bush himself unappealing. Liar. Hypocrite. Unstable. Basically mean-spirited. Bully. Close-minded. Irrational. Isolated. In a bubble. Doesn't know, share, or care about your reality, or your pain. May be drinking again. DOESN'T REALLY GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU unless you're one of his big-ticket-donor "pioneers." Or unless you have a 19-year-old kid to feed into his dead-end MEATGRINDER in Iraq. That drumbeat has to start, and continue unabated. AT EVERY POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY. EVERY chance you might spot, during your day or evening, in which you can offer some bad-mouthing (I particularly like the time we're all suffering together as we're pumping more-costly gasoline into our cars at the self-serve - or, NOW, as we're waiting in line to get to the gas pump (which is happening in little fits and spurts in various places around L.A. where you find a RARE self-serve that offers you gasoline as cheap as $2.99/gallon). SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY WHEREVER YOU FIND IT. Plant a seed - of poison. Get them grumbling against him, and make sure the blame for whatever it is - is always somehow routed directly back to him.

We've GOTTA do this, guys. If we're to take back the House next year, and the White House in '08. It's GOTTA be done. And it's GOTTA be done by US. Our party "leaders" are woefully underwhelming on this, so it's gotta be us, taking matters into our own hands.

We are ALL subversives, sneaking aboard those boats in Boston Harbor, to chuck the tea crates overboard...

Anyone know. I don't watch the corporate media anymore, but Gallup was the only poll they would show during the 2004 election. Usually, they LOVE Gallup, and co-spondor polls with the company. Don't tell me it's different this time.

and all the questions were about Bush. So must be he's going to come out with some figures or someone hired him to get an accurate number.

Mine was very California specific. Steroid Arnie got no mercy.

and people DESPISED Richard Nixon. His lowest approval rating was at 39%

Link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/big-media-lie-people-l_b_6171.html


(snip)
Here’s the mainstream media myth that’s driving me crazy: Americans really like George W. Bush.

News Flash – George Bush’s approval ratings are at 36%. Those are pre-coup numbers. That’s when a politician in a third world country becomes so unpopular that a couple of generals decide to show him the door. Nixon at the height of Watergate was at 39%, three points HIGHER than Bush is right now. And people despised Nixon.

To say “people like Bush” under these circumstances is to be so inaccurate that I have to question either your intelligence or your motives. How much cognitive reasoning ability do you need to figure out that 36% approval rating means people DON’T like George Bush? Do you owe the guy money or something?
(snip)


:evilgrin:

That's what we HAVE TO DO now:

Start working on tearing this myth apart.

Because the MSM IS perpetrating, and propping up, this myth that schmucko is really just this aw-shucks, regular, likeable guy. AND HE'S NOT. And what he's DOING to this country (AND all those people who purportedly like him so much) is NOT, either.

So what we have to do is, AT EVERY EVEN-REMOTELY-POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY: REMIND them of it. REMIND them of things that he's been responsible for, or promoted, or shoved down our throats behind our backs, are BAD FOR AMERICA. BAD FOR AMERICA. WHY do ALL of the polls - every last one of them, for months and months - no, actually, I think it's a factor of a few YEARS by now, show that Americans by strong, irrefutable majorities, say the country is headed in the wrong direction, that things have gotten off on the wrong track. Know what you say to that? "Well (sigh), that's what you get when you vote republi-CON."

I mean, we were watching some of the hurricane coverage today, and my husband pipes up with "yeah, tell us about how that climate change is just junk science, 'eh, george? Just needs further study, 'eh, george? Global warming is just a myth, 'eh, george?"

I tell ya, brothers and sisters, this has GOT to be done. On the people-to-people, face-to-face, grassroots level. BTW, that's how the bad guys took over America. One low-level conquest at a time. One school board seat at a time. One baby step at a time. It took 'em about 40 years but they did it. Now we have to do it. We HAVE TO do it. While there's still an America to save.

much longer. They continually poll high, so we know the original poll of 36% is about right...we'll see how many people kkkarl can pay to show up in Crawford, before we say in the 20's.
:popcorn:

The Republicans called 51% a mandate ...What s 58%? A Double Super Mandate?

Yeah, I know its Gallup, and the numbers are more likely around 35%, but it still means that over one-third of the country still approve of the job this idiot is doing. I'm more optimistic than before, but it still bothers me to think that many people don't see what is so obvious to me.

Even so, I have hope in this: that many of that 40% are just to embarrassed to admit they made a mistake in voting for this fool and for now are just hoping some miracle turns things around. And that many more just aren't paying attention yet and only listen to Limbaugh and Dobson and Fox because they are handy and don't have any opposing voice to listen to-yet. That only leaves part of that 40% who are truly brainwashed by the political and/or religious right-wing propeganda machines. We'll never really know the exact numbers of how many are too far gone and how many might still be reached; all we can do is try and reach as many as possible with the truth.

When Hoover, Truman & Nixon had approvals in the 20s, the media was much more balanced than it is now. Scandal was called scandal. The person telling on the scandal is not Swift Boated & dragged over the coals...

Nowadays, the media is constantly cheerleading for Bush & anybody that disagrees with him is slammed for "librul bias", it will have an effect on the average person, even if they generally don't like Bush & his policies.

terrorist activity. London, New York, Oklahoma and so forth.

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_8_25.html#D445F680

What pisses me off is that it's gas prices that are finally upsetting the American people. Not the War in Iraq, not Abu Ghraib, not attacks on our liberties, not Bush's plutocratic policies, not Rove leaking Valerie Plames identity, not the DSM, etc. -- but fucking gas prices!

It pisses me off because people should have forseen the rising gas prices in November of last year. The price of gas was high even then, yet people choses to vote their "values" and elected monkeyman yet again. At least Kerry wasn't hostile to alternative energy research.

but I still can't understand why people voted for this guy in the first place. He really hasn't done anything worse than in his first term. I just don't get the American public anymore.

I know this sounds horrible but sometimes I can't help but think that we are a nation of dumb asses and we deserve a moron for a president like Bush.

However, I have no doubt that, were he to have to pretend to face another "election" right now, he would "win" by 3 million "votes".

He sure would.

Watch. 2006 is coming, and it is as rigged and predictable as any other lame-ass Reality Show.

NOTE: Does this mean GIVE UP? NEVER! It only means we must flood the system with honest votes.

Every time somebody checks in here with a low post count (even though they may have lurked for awhile), that gives ME hope. Our number just grew by another one. And it's another like-minded one, at that. And that is good news, even if just a teensy little bit of good news. Welcome. Don't lose heart. Come here and be cheered and buttressed and lifted up and informed and strenghtened by this community. And most important of all: GET BUSY!!!!!!!!!!

and his ratings are going to go down even more. I wouldn't be surprised to see him at 30% within a week.

...closer to 34% to 36%, they always interview too many Repukes.

While this is certainly great news, I would be cautious about "the tide" turning. This is just ratings of Bush, not of Republicans in general. Have there been any polls about the parties in general? If they align with this then we can celebrate.