New CBS poll - Bush Approval drops 4 points to 37%

Just reported on CBS Evening News.

I'll look for a link. I believe CBS and the NYT do polling together.

Bush - Approval for the WOT - 47%.
Approval for Iraq - 32%

edit to add - I don't see a link yet.

Watch for it....

and the media spends five seconds and goes back to the Rove story... turning point

I thought I saw a Quinnipiac poll today that had him at 37%.

bush is thinking endless war.

...down to 37%, a 4 point drop in the last month....still too damn high.

a poster above mentions)?

I've seen posts on other blogs quoting it as a CBS poll.

I've been hearing recently of polls showing him back up at 40-45%. This is welcome change.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

It's about time!

Americans STILL have heads up asses.

and now he is under 50%.

Bad news for the Shrub.

I really know the answer to that question, of course. Propaganda works, people WANT to believe their President is making them safe, etc. Still, it saddens me.

I did an average last month without terror and he was down around 35%. It looks like Katrina has made people realize we spent billions on security and have absolutely none, billions on Iraq only to create more terrorists, and finally realized he's pissed off the people we need to help. If he's lost people on terrorism, he is truly toast.

The only number that bugs me is 70% who aren't sure about Tom Delay. :banghead: Means we still have a long way to go in convincing people what this Republican regime has really been doing.

We are a stupid people. Guess we deserve *.

Heh heh heh ...

This is fuckin great, the sheeple have awaken from their slumber.

so that's why THEY are abandoning ship.

Up is down, down is up, and side-ways never happened.

:kick:

And it just keeps getting better!

Rove, Delay, Libby, Cheney, Bush....all will pay eventually

who proclaimed, Bush 'will always have the support of the majority"?

This one deserves to be on the Greatest page.:toast:

Edited because I'm spelling like a freeper tonight.:dunce:

Someone told me that an old political adage states that once a critter's numbers fall below forty, you can stick a fork in 'em. While there is probably no truth to this, I've been waiting for this day. Make it so.

OTOH, we won't be running against bush in 2008. Well, at least the republicans will be running from him.

I know, I know, a cheap shot - but you've got to admit, a classic nonethtless!!

Which reminds me, does anyone know if the "Classic Moran" is available as a DU avatar?

(CBS) This CBS News Poll finds an American public increasingly pessimistic about the economy, the war in Iraq, the overall direction of the country, and the President. Americans' outlook for the economy is the worst it has been in four years. Most expect the price of gas to rise even further in the next few months.

A growing number of Americans want U.S. troops to leave Iraq as soon as possible, rather than stay the course, and the highest percentage ever thinks the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq. When given a set of options for paying for rebuilding the hurricane-racked Gulf Coast, only one — taking money from the Iraq War — gets majority support.

President George W. Bush's overall job approval rating has reached the lowest ever measured in this poll, and evaluations of his handling of Iraq, the economy and even his signature issue, terrorism, are also at all-time lows. More Americans than at any time since he took office think he does not share their priorities.

The public's concerns affect their view of the state of the country. 69 percent of Americans say things in the U.S. are pretty seriously off on the wrong track — the highest number since CBS News started asking the question in 1983. Today, just 26 percent say things are going in the right direction.

DIRECTION OF THE COUNTRY

Right direction
Now
26%
9/2005
31%
5/2004
30%
3/2003
52%
11/1994
30%

Wrong track
Now
69%
9/2005
63%
5/2004
65%
3/2003
41%
11/1994
65%

Majorities of the public have consistently said the U.S. is off on the wrong track since January 2004. In May 2004, shortly after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal came to light, 65 percent were negative. In November 1994, just as Republicans took control of both houses of Congress for the first time in decades, 6 percent of Americans said the country was off on the wrong track.

-snip-
PRESIDENT BUSH'S JOB APPROVAL
Approve
All
37%
Reps.
79%
Dems.
14%
Inds.
29%

Disapprove
All
58%
Reps.
13%
Dems.
84%
Inds.
64%

PRES. BUSH JOB APPROVALS

Overall
Now
37%
9/2005
41%
8/2005
41%

Terrorism
Now
46%
9/2005
50%
8/2005
54%


Iraq
Now
32%
9/2005
36%
8/2005
38%

Economy
Now
32%
9/2005
35%
8/2005
37%

Hurricane Katrina
Now
45%
9/2005
44%
8/2005
54%

Recent hurricanes
Now
46%
9/2005
n/a
8/2005
n/a

And for the first time in this poll, fewer than half the public approves of the way he is handling the campaign against terrorism. 46 percent now approve, but 46 percent disapprove.

Approval of Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina is about the same as last month, and now stands at 45 percent. Overall evaluation of how he has managed all the recent hurricanes in the Gulf Coast is 46 percent.

-snip-
DOES PRES. BUSH SHARE YOUR PRIORITIES FOR THE COUNTRY?

Yes
Now
32%
5/2005
34%
4/2003
48%
1/2002
59%

No
Now
65%
5/2005
61%
4/2003
46%
1/2002
32%

DOES PRESIDENT BUSH HAVE STRONG QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP?

Yes
Now
45%
9/2005
53%
9/2004*
64%
9/2001
83%

No
Now
52%
9/2005
45%
9/2004*
34%
9/2001
14%

*among registered voters

A sizable number of Americans express skepticism about whether President Bush has chosen qualified people for positions in his administration. 52 percent have at least some confidence in his choices, but almost as many, 47 percent, have little or no confidence.

CONFIDENCE IN BUSH'S ADMINISTRATION APPOINTEES?

A lot
All
22%
Reps.
50%
Dems.
6%
Inds.
17%

Some
All
30%
Reps.
37%
Dems.
27%
Inds.
28%

A little/none
All
47%
Reps.
13%
Dems.
66%
Inds.
53%

Half of Republicans express a lot of confidence in President Bush's choices, while most Democrats and Independents have little or no confidence.

more at the
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/06/opinion/polls/main924485.shtml

The Halloween Poll for Chimpy may indeed be his worst nightmare. I fear that it's like watching a rat trapped in the corner though...if today's terrawarning was any indication...

his approval won't be coming from anyone but his Repug base. And while it's true that most of them are going to keep supporting him no matter what (obvious considering that's the only way to explain the fact that they've supported him *this* long), he'll be a true lame duck if his approval rating continues to plummet among those who aren't a part of his rabid right base and his unpopularity hurts his wingnut buddies in Congress in the '06 midterms.

Thirteen months is a long way to go, though, and it sometimes seems like everytime I think the American people are finally waking up to how awful this guy is, something squirrelly happens or he pulls something squirrelly and he's back on top again. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, though.