| Tuesday, April 18, 2006 |
| Bush sinks into the Gallup gutter |
When GOP-leaning Gallup says you're in the tank ...
President Bush's war in Iraq isn't going well. So say six in ten Gallup poll respondents -- 57 percent now say the U.S. will not win in Iraq, while 39 percent disagree (only 20 percent say we'll "definitely" win...)
And if Bush isn't doing well (60 percent disapproval rating), Congress is doing even worse, with just 23 percent of respondents approving and 70 percent disapproving of the job our non-oversight-loving friends on the Hill are doing. And important word from Gallup:
This downward trend in Congress approval is parallel to the decline in public approval of President George W. Bush over the same period. Although ratings of Bush are consistently higher than those for Congress, the similar changes in approval suggest that Americans closely associate the performance of the Republican-led Congress with Bush's performance. In other words, Americans believe no one is minding the store, and in particular, this Congress is failing in its role of overseeing the administration's policies and practices.
Blame it on slanted news headlines if you'd like (it's hard to slant "Iraq is going to hell in a handbasket," but there you go, and I'm not sure how the McKinney headlines hurt Bush, you'll have to help me with that one...) but the right is going to have to come to a reckoning -- even Republicans are beginning to sour on, and tune out, this president. Every poll on this is consistent, and no matter how hard Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh practice their love on the president, no amount of buttering him up to their listeners, and no amount of bloglove from people like the crew at Bush-adoring Powerline, will change the numbers. Only better events -- preferably in Iraq, but also on the economy as it effects individual, middle class Americans -- can do that.
Tags: Bush, Politics, Iraq, News, Republicans, Polls, Gallup, Congress |
posted by JReid @ 1:01 AM   |
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