Bush's approval rating lowest at this point in term since EISENHOWER (can anyone here remember that far back?)

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Reported on NBC News tonight. Inquiring minds, etc.

-- Hey Aint (GO@FUCK.YOURSELF), February 26, 2001

Answers

Do you have a link?

-- dudesy (dudesy@37.com), February 26, 2001.

Yep, people must be REALLY upset about something - what it is we can't tell. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

p.s. Cut it with the obscentities, as only schoolchildren indulge in that in order to express themselves.

-- nbc polls homeless people (moreinterpretation@ugly.com), February 27, 2001.


Poll news.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new ABC News/Washington Post poll released Monday shows President George W. Bush (news - web sites) with a 55 percent job approval rating, the lowest rating given to a newly elected president since Dwight Eisenhower.

Bush's approval rating compares to a previous low of 60 percent for former president Richard Nixon in late February 1969, and a high of 76 percent for George Bush, Bush's father, shortly after he took office in 1989.

Bill Clinton had an approval rating of 63 percent in February 1993, the month after he moved into the White House.

The poll of 1,050 adults, conducted Feb. 21-25, also showed only lukewarm support for Bush's $1.6 billion tax cut proposal, with only 22 percent of Americans giving top priority to a tax cut, ABC News and the Washington Post said.

Seventy-seven percent cited other priorities, including strengthening Social Security, reducing the debt or spending more on programs such as education and health care, according to the pollsters.

The poll showed that if taxes were to be cut, 53 percent of Americans favored a smaller, more targeted approach, rather than Bush's across- the-board plan.

The pollsters also asked about the controversy surrounding Clinton's pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich and others, but found no ``broad public outrage.''

Thirty-five percent called it ``very important issue,'' while another 30 percent viewed it as ``somewhat important.'' Respondents were fairly evenly split on whether the pardons warranted further congressional hearings, or a criminal investigation, with 46 percent saying it did, and 50 percent saying it did not.

But the pardon issue had ``knocked a little fizz out of Clinton's retrospective job approval rating,'' the poll showed. Fifty-nine percent of those polls approved of Clinton's handling of the White House, down from 65 percent just before he left office last month.

That 65-percent rating had been the highest end-of-career rating of any postwar president, the pollsters noted.

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

-- (not@tell.ing), February 27, 2001.


Of COURSE his approval rating is low, he hasn't really done anything to approve of yet. He's also got an uphill battle to begin with since he lost the popular vote by a wide margin.

It's too early, and there have been too many distractions, to predict how this presidency will turn out. Save this link, it will be interesting to contrast this with his approval rating from this summer.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), February 27, 2001.


lost the popular vote by a wide margin

500 thousand out of 100 mill. Isn't that .5%? Wide margin?

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), February 27, 2001.



Tarzan believes Gore would have had a "mandate" to raise taxes with that .5% in order to boost the economy.

-- Interpret this (moreinterpretation@ugly.com), February 27, 2001.

Are you saying it's not important, Maria?

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), February 27, 2001.

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