Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low
 

Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low

NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2006(CBS) The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.

Americans are also overwhelmingly opposed to the Bush-backed deal giving a Dubai-owned company operational control over six major U.S. ports. Seven in 10 Americans, including 58 percent of Republicans, say they're opposed to the agreement.

CBS News senior White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that now it turns out the Coast Guard had concerns about the ports deal, a disclosure that is no doubt troubling to a president who assured Americans there was no security risk from the deal.

The troubling results for the Bush administration come amid reminders about the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and negative assessments of how the government and the president have handled it for six months.

In a separate poll, two out of three Americans said they do not think President Bush has responded adequately to the needs of Katrina victims. Only 32 percent approve of the way President Bush is responding to those needs, a drop of 12 points from last September’s poll, taken just two weeks after the storm made landfall.

Mr. Bush's overall job rating has fallen to 34 percent, down from 42 percent last month. Fifty-nine percent disapprove of the job the president is doing.

For the first time in this poll, most Americans say the president does not care much about people like themselves. Fifty-one percent now think he doesn't care, compared to 47 percent last fall.

Just 30 percent approve of how Mr. Bush is handling the Iraq war, another all-time low.

By two to one, the poll finds Americans think U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are going badly – the worst assessment yet of progress in Iraq.

Even on fighting terrorism, which has long been a strong suit for Mr. Bush, his ratings dropped lower than ever. Half of Americans say they disapprove of how he's handling the war on terror, while 43 percent approve.

In a bright spot for the administration, most Americans appeared to have heard enough about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.

More then three in four said it was understandable that the accident had occurred and two-thirds said the media had spent too much time covering the story.

Still, the incident appears to have made the public's already negative view of Cheney a more so. Just 18 percent said they had a favorable view of the vice president, down from 23 percent in January.

Americans were evenly split on whether or not Cheney's explanation of why there was a delay in reporting the accident was satisfactory.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1350874.shtml

While I agree and have a negative view of the way Bush is handling things, I don't trust CBS pollsters.

Ya just have to realize that the wording of the question can affect (in either positive or negative reaction depending on what you want) the outcome of whatever poll.

I understand people's assumptions regarding an Arabic company owning the ports....IN theory anyway. But for example....Westinghouse....you know them right....they are owned by a British company. Know what Westinghouse also controls/owns many of....NUCLEAR power plants, located HERE. Now remember where many terriorists have come from....they were Arabic descent, but they were British citizens. Kinda makes ya go hmmmmm.......

I'm with you. Just like you can justify anything you want by searching the Internet, you can bias anything with the way a poll is managed.

Have they ever asked your opinion? I think I was called one time a loooong time ago!

I don't put any value on those polls....

I agree... Its too late now he is in the office. So instead of complaining, get ready to elect someone new in 2 years or change parties. ;)

Interestingly enough I heard a lot of people say in 2004 they voted based on the lesser of 2 evils and not actually on their party lines...

I didn't think Bush was the lesser of two evils, but wasn't a big Kerry fan. I'll tell what would have been interesting....watching their handlers/PR people attempt damage control on Kerry's wife's mouth. That would have been funny. She is whacked....wait, she's rich...that makes her eccentric :rolleyes:

I gotta get Matty to see this thread. He is a BUSH-MAN all the way!! Right Matty? :D

The funny thing is...she was a Republicans wife First :rolleyes:

Numbers, Numbers...I am not worried, however they do still count because of the elections later this year!

Well, I have to say...it's about time people realized! I will say nothing more.