Bush's approval lower than Clinton's on the day of his impeachment!

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About freakin time that people start waking up and realizing that this man is the worst thing that has ever happened to America.

More than half your country thinks he's terrible. The downside of democracy, huh?

George W. Bush’s approval rating is now a full twenty points lower than Bill Clinton’s was on the day he was impeached. Dear media, that means you gotta stop referring to him as a “popular president,” and no less important, stop treating him like one. If you want to be wimps about everything, fine, just don’t blame it on his ‘popularity.’ Blame it on yourselves.

jako

So?

Hillary Clinton's approval rating 3 months after being elected was below Nixon's as of resignation.

Clinton was still pretty popular when all that happened, apparently 60%.

Saying Bush or Clinton is so much worse than Watergate shows an incredible level of ignorance.

Originally posted by Amorymeltzer
So?

Hillary Clinton's approval rating 3 months after being elected was below Nixon's as of resignation.

Hilary Clinton was President of the United States?

Originally posted by Frith
Hilary Clinton was President of the United States?

Senator, deary, senator.

Originally posted by Amorymeltzer
Senator, deary, senator.

Exactly. Which is why I was asking that question. Senators only represent a single state. So how could anybody compare the approval rating of the President of the United States, which represents all 50 states compared to a senator who represents one state? There is a distinct population percentage difference.

I don't see the point. People don't get impeached due to low popularity numbers, they get impeached over "high crimes and misdemeanors."

I dont see the point either. what matters is that Bush was relected and in this case the majority of people voted for Bush. Bushs poll ratings may be more relvant as 2008 draws closer. The Republican party may want to see Bush go out ahead in the polls in order to create a good image for the party.

Bush Job Approval Dips to New Lows [Again]

Associated Press
32 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - As the war in Iraq drags on, President Bush's job approval and the public's confidence in the direction he's taking the nation are at their lowest levels since The Associated Press-Ipsos poll began in December 2003.

About one-third of adults, 35 percent, said they think the country is headed in the right direction, while 43 percent said they approve of the job being done by Bush. Just 41 percent say they support his handling of the war, also a low-water mark.

"There's a bad mood in the country, people are out of sorts," said presidential scholar and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Charles Jones, who lives near Charlottesville, Va. "Iraq news is daily bad news. The election in Iraq helped some, and the formation of the government helped some, but dead bodies trump the more positive news."

California retiree Carol Harvie was quick to mention Iraq when asked about how Bush was doing his job.

"I don't think he's read his history enough about different countries and foreign affairs," said Harvie, a political independent who lives near San Diego, a region with several military bases. "Anything they try to do in Iraq has spelled trouble. I think he bit off more than he can chew."

Car bombings and attacks by insurgents killed 80 U.S. troops and more than 700 Iraqis last month and Pentagon officials acknowledge the level of violence is about the same as a year ago, when they were forced to scrap a plan to substantially reduce the U.S. troop presence in Iraq.

Bush administration officials say the key to getting U.S. forces out of Iraq is training Iraqis to provide their own security.

While Bush has gotten generally low scores for his handling of domestic issues for many months, most Americans have been supportive of his foreign policy. Not any more.

The poll conducted for AP by Ipsos found 45 percent support Bush's foreign policy, down from 52 percent in March.

The rest of the numbers?

Support for Bush's handling of domestic issues remained in the high 30s and low 40s in the latest AP-Ipsos poll.

Thirty-seven percent support Bush's handling of Social Security, while 59 percent disapprove. Those numbers haven't budged after more than four months of the president traveling the country to sell his plan to create private accounts in Social Security.

Support for his handling of the economy was at 43 percent.

Congress gets even lower grades than Bush, a potentially troubling development for those seeking re-election next year. [READ AS HA HA HA HA HA HA, way to handle getting power nimroids

]

Only about three in 10 polled said they approve of the job being done by Congress, while 64 percent disapprove.

"Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them," said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and they're all worried about 2006." [READ AS LAME DUCK... QUACK QUACK QUACK ...Somebody get President Dobson to pray for more coma ladies!]

The AP-Ipsos poll of 1,001 adults was taken June 6-8 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Let's review:

Executive Summary: Most Americans DO NOT Support Bush, Congress, or their handling and direction of ANYTHING.

45% support bush's foreign policy
35% think the country is going in the right direction
37% approve of bush's handling of social security
43% support bush's handing of economy
And [his "strong suit"] Bush's handling of Iraq War is supported by 41%.

The minority of support for this abysmal failure just keeps shrinking and shrinking, doesn't it?