Bush Ties Record Low Of 25% In New Poll

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CalD wrote on October 22, 2007 10:42 AM:

Whoa. Now, I've been fully expecting to see him take a hit for taking medicine from babies but a 9-point drop in one month? That's pretty dramatic. It will be interesting to see whether this turns out to be just an outlyer or the beginning of the end of Bush's latest dead-cat bounce.

JohnW1141 wrote on October 22, 2007 10:44 AM:

Alert David Broder to this "surge".

Beltway Media Talking Points wrote on October 22, 2007 10:49 AM:

This is good news for President Bush.

Or something.

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walt wrote on October 22, 2007 10:52 AM:

I suspect this drop is attributable to the SCHIP veto. The right's heavy-handed demonization of the Frost kid was pure desperation. They flail about looking for core principles but no one seems to know what they are anymore.

Brain Dead Republican wrote on October 22, 2007 10:53 AM:

Yes, definitely means Bush is on track. No point in squandering the remaining year of his administration panderin' to the American people. President Bush is making the hard calls, doin' what needs to be done. Sometimes that means tickin' people off. Like takin' medicine away from sick kids. Gotta be done. Testin' the limits of America's fightin' men and women. Gotta be done.

Grow up America. Gotta be done.

CybScryb wrote on October 22, 2007 11:05 AM:

George W. Bush = Zaphod Beeblebrox without the positives.

Bubba Johnson wrote on October 22, 2007 11:07 AM:

Where in god's name are these 25% who still approve of this fool? I ask all the time and no one will fess up. They apparently are all gutless, stealthy supporters, unwilling to stand up in public for the worst president ever.

osage wrote on October 22, 2007 11:11 AM:

George W. Bush personifies the most malevolent, irredeemable and diabolic aspects of mankind. Not only is he wantonly destructive, purposefully dishonest and shamelessly unremorseful, he disgracefully defends his catastrophic decisions by hiding and perpetuating the devastating impact they have on the lives of defenseless human beings. Hundreds of thousands of innocent children, women and men, who have not harbored a harmful thought toward another human being, have been murdered, eviscerated and maimed as a direct result of George W. Bush being the president of the United States of America. And yet, his overriding priority is to prolong the inhuman carnage he has instigated, not to end it. George W. Bush is an indelibly chilling example of what man is capable of doing to his fellow man......the worst example imaginable.

IMPEACHMENT is the only means we have of stopping the deadly and destructive consequences of the unrelenting IGNORANCE, ARROGANCE, INCOMPETENCE, DISHONESTIES, INSECURITIES, HOSTILE TEMPERAMENT, VINDICTIVENESS and PRONOUNCED PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS of George W. Bush. He is an intellectually and emotionally mean-spirited immature child who is destroying America's honor and integrity single-handedly. And unprincipled politically correct Democrats are standing by watching as he dismantles our Constitution and rules of law creating an all powerful and self-ruling/policing ONE branch oppressive/fascist American government. No individual in our history is more deserving of CONDEMNATION and IMPEACHMENT than George W. Bush!

Pepper Jack wrote on October 22, 2007 11:12 AM:

And this fool with the 25% approval rating wants to launch an attack on Iran???

Michael wrote on October 22, 2007 11:16 AM:

Yep Bubba, I'm trying to figure out who these people are as well. It's amazing. Are they brain dead? Are they on drugs? Do they live in a bubble? There cannot be that many lunatics in the country? The king's approval ratings that have been reported seem to totally debunk polling in general, because there is no way that 25% of the people approve of this bozo. Even his base is against him on spending and immigration, when you take the war out of the equasion.

Demosthenes wrote on October 22, 2007 11:22 AM:

Michael and Bubba:

I know some of the Bush Dead Enders. They share a few common characteristics. They are all stridently ideological allies. Thus, appointing far right wing judges, and vetoing children's health care are a sign of true leadership. They all do not get the news from a source other than Faux, right wing talk radio, or far right wing magazines (Weekly Standard, National Review, etc). In short, these are the "base".

della Rovere wrote on October 22, 2007 11:23 AM:

uh oh. the 25% approval rating will surely spark fear and dread in the stalwart opposition, the fightin' Dems. It's one thing to oppose a President with a 2% approval rating; a 25% approval rating is pretty daunting.

Chris wrote on October 22, 2007 11:24 AM:

What difference does it make what his approval rating is? The Congress will still accede to his every demand.

RWN wrote on October 22, 2007 11:26 AM:

Bubba: My father calls them the 25 percenters. Many are the not-dead-yet Nixonion's who were the 25 percenters which he was one of some 30+ years ago. Read John Dean's book "Conservatives Without Conscience", this is a hard ratio in this society, they are emotional and psychological AUTHORITARIANS.

At 80 years old he is now reformed, having still a mind and now knowing he is being screwed by these Authoritarians as his affluent middle class belief of hard work, connections, and playing the game brought him old age wealth. This is now not materializing as his wealth is diminishing again. Oh sure he is still well off, but he learned when they passed he medicare reform and suddenly their medicine costs jumped $3000 and he was unable to go to Canada and buy direct.

What people should be concerned about are not the polls, but making sure there is a true accounting at the polls.

Jane wrote on October 22, 2007 12:00 PM:

I'd like to seek a shaded map and then see the map crossed with media markets.

Some may be dead enders but some may be reachable.

johnnyr wrote on October 22, 2007 12:15 PM:

Well, it's encouraging! It had been stuck in the 30's for so very long, I was concerned about the public's ability to reason.

Looks like those 70%'er gave a few 30%'er a good talking to, and they're actually starting to 'get it'. Bush is a disaster.

I predict down from 25, only down. There's probably 5%-10% who truly support this guy, the rest are morons, clueless, liars, or polling margin of error.

joe wrote on October 22, 2007 12:19 PM:

Chances are the 25% who still support this yahoo are the Born-Again Christians, who, like Eric Prince, see no contradiction between things like $1000-a-day mercenaries shooting kids and the messages of Jesus' Beatitudes.

If dead kids don't shake your faith in George Bush, nothing will....

judyinnm wrote on October 22, 2007 12:45 PM:

So what? What were the approval ratings for Pinochet, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Sadam Hussein (for that matter) in their own countries? And, did it make any difference, in their policies?

robin wrote on October 22, 2007 12:49 PM:

Hey Bubba I can tell you they are still alive and breathing here in the OC. Those 25% won't stick their heads out of the sandbox. But they are here. It sickens me that my neighbors hold the republican talking points. Even the Roman empire went down... Revolution is a good thing for the soul...

bluestatedon wrote on October 22, 2007 12:51 PM:

After the recession that's already hit various industries and regions can no longer be ignored by traditional media outlets (by next March or so), the dead-enders will decrease to a rock-hard kernel of about 20%.

For these folks, even indisputable videotape evidence that Bush had relations with a goat would be dismissed out of hand, justified as necessary in the GWOT, or excused with the magical "Clinton did it too" get-out-of-jail-free card. These people cannot be reasoned with; they've proved that they are intentionally immune to rational argument.

Their spiritual ancestors threatened Galileo, enjoyed putting "heretics" on the rack during the Inquisition, burned "witches" in Salem, lapped up anti-Semitic screeds in 1920s Germany, and murdered American civil rights workers in the South in the 1960s.

Stephennnn wrote on October 22, 2007 1:21 PM:

I would like to see a list of counties or cities that poll above 50 percent for this failed president. I want to make certain I avoid travelling to those contaminated zones and I would avoid doing business with those companies that either produce products or are headquartered in these places.

anonymous wrote on October 22, 2007 1:32 PM:

in a corporate dictatorship,such as your ship of state, popularity is of absolutely no importance.even more so in a nation of little girls, you Americans are pathetic.

NJ Lawyer wrote on October 22, 2007 1:33 PM:

Yet the Democrats keep rolling over and playing dead when it comes to blocking the most odious legislation.

Why?

David_F wrote on October 22, 2007 2:21 PM:

My WAG about the 25%: Include some single-issue voters who are *truly* single issue, e.g. W's support of Israeli hardliners, W's opposition to stem-cell research (sort of), and so on, which could collectively add up to 5-10%. Also includes roughly an equal number of people who simply don't have the fortitude to become disillusioned, who cannot stomach an emperor-has-no-clothes epiphany; yes, they listen to talk radio and ignore other sources, but that's a means to an end, not the cause of their more-or-less willful self-delusions. Add in the extremely small number of informed true believers (unreformed neo-cons, the WWIV crowd, etc.), and the rest is easily accounted for by respondent error during the polling process. Bottom line: when you get down to 25% approval in a well-conducted poll, you're really talking about very little meaningful support among the broad electorate. (I could be convinced otherwise.)

r€nato wrote on October 22, 2007 2:55 PM:

I love my mom and stepdad dearly but they are, sadly, Bush-supporting Republicans (though their support is rather tepid and wholly defensive at this point).

Over the summer I was on vacation with them and since it was their apartment, I was largely forced to watch their choice of TV stations, which included a rather (un)healthy dose of Fox News Channel.

After having been subjugated to that crap for a few weeks, I can completely understand where the dead-enders are coming from. To watch Fox News Channel is to never, ever hear any criticism of Republicans or the war. It's a non-stop drumbeat of feel-good stories about soldiers, the latest gossip about Hillary and/or whoever the target of the 2 Minute Hate is on that particular day (at that time it was Rosie O'Donnell), and especially the Outrage du Jour. That is, FNC always finds some story to get people outraged about and just flogs it to death until they find something else to fixate upon.

It's exactly like being brainwashed by a cult.

judyinnm wrote on October 22, 2007 5:58 PM:

The only difference between FNC and the other networks is the cheerleading is a little more subdued - but they still unquestioningly spew the george/dick talking points. PRAVDA was more objective.

Only Olberman, Stewart (Jon), and Colbert present anything approaching objectivity - and one's a sportscaster, the other two are comedians (probably the only reason they're ALLOWED to not toe the line).

RP wrote on October 22, 2007 6:36 PM:

Bush lost 5% because of the breaking of the mortgage securities bubble.
He will lose the rest when their confidence bubble breaks.

Reader X wrote on October 22, 2007 6:41 PM:

Agree with the analysis a la John dean, that the only ones left are the authoritarians. I think we reached that point when Bush was in the low thirties, and are now peeling off the intelligent/well-adjusted members of that set.

Helena Montanta wrote on October 22, 2007 8:45 PM:

As to who still likes Bush--my boss does, or says he does. He listens to Rush Limbaugh religiously as well--he is the ultimate dittohead. However, I have often suspected that this man, who is a natural contrarian and provocateur, is slyly pulling all our legs. I hope that's the case because politics aside, he's smart, generous, funny, and fundamentally a really decent person. I just can't make the two sides of him match up.

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