FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low

[sabra]

Source: Fox News

NEW YORK — Americans are giving bad grades all around. President Bush’s job approval rating now stands at 31 percent, the lowest ever in the FOX News poll, and almost twice as many Americans say they disapprove of the president’s job performance. And those harsh sentiments extend down Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill. Six months after the new Democratically-controlled Congress convened, the poll finds that Americans are dissatisfied with the job both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are doing.

Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from June 26 to June 27. The poll has a 3-point error margin.

Bush’s ratings have been in the thirties for the last several months. Since the midterm election, the president’s approval has ranged from a high of 38 percent (January and April) to a low of 33 percent in March. Today, 31 percent of Americans say they approve and 60 percent disapprove.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287195,00.html

[monmouth]

1. Any other poll other than Fox, it would be much lower..n/t

[dubyaD40web]

2. True.

I'm surprised Fox doesn't have him at 60%

[Mist]

6. So what is really? About 19 or so? Even their very own propaganda outlet

can't eke it above 31.

[tiptoe]

23. chart

[Lorien]

3. How very Orwellian

I've read 28% in various polls over the past year, yet they keep revising the "new low" upward. As in "your chocolate rations have been increased from 2oz to 1.5 oz".

[EFerrari]

8. I thought I noticed that, too. n/t

[ananda]

4. biggy biggy deal deal

Has anything changed one iota?
Have the Dems stood up to the supposedly weakened Bushinc? NO
Has Bushinc stopped being a bully? NO
Have Americans been inspired to action due to all the crimes and
SCOTUS horrors lately? NO

HELL NO! It's just the same ol same ol.

[liberal N proud]

5. There was a poll the other day that * him at 26

[melody]

7. Yet another Rovian release trying to shore up the illusion of shrub's numbers

It's WAY lower than 33% and they damn well know it.

In California, I'd be surprised if it's 10%.

[muffin1]

9. I heard 26 in another poll

the other day. Still WAY, WAY too high! :tinfoilhat:

[WhiteTara]

10. they must have pushed the +/- to the plus side

and if they took the full 5% they give for there being "more Repukes" and the normal range of +/- 4% we can assume (and probably rightly so) that the real number is about 22% JMHO of course

[CJCRANE]

11. 60 % disapprove.

Um, does Fox News by any chance think the American people are trying to tell them something..?

:shrug:

[badgerpup]

17. Naw...

...no reason to listen to the 'fringe groups'...even if they do make up- what is it now? anywhere from 69% to 74% of the population.
:sarcasm:

[LiberalFighter]

12. First time I've heard of Opinion Dynamics Corp

How long has FOX been using this company? Or were they number shopping for Bush?

[Maccagirl]

13. Are they wearing black at FAUX these days?

I bet they're all just a smite snippy this afternoon.

[mcscajun]

14. "How Low Can You GO?"

Limbo lower now
Limbo lower now
How low can you go?


Who knew Bush was a Limbo Star? :rofl:

[OneBlueSky]

15. if Fox says it's 31%, it's probably half that . . . n/t

.

[pnorman]

16. Pew had it 29% about 3 weeks ago.

As someone suggested elsewhere, Fox probably bit into the plus side of the fudge-factor (+-3%). But he had similar figures in August 2001, and then came Fahrenheit 911. QUESTION: Will the DLC grow some balls before Bush hits another Trifecta?

pnorman

[GeneCosta]

18. He's "not conservative enuff" for Fox viewers

The illegal immigration bill he supports proves it -- he's somewhere between John McCain and Margaret Thatcher. The Fox crowd is looking for someone right of Hitler.

[Lerkfish]

20. that would be lieberman

:rofl:

I kid, I kid.

[Fermezlabush]

19. let's see: when it was 30s, they call it 90% - I call a real 10% now - half of whom

work for Faux. (Funny fact: they check political loyalty there for everyone - from anchorman to cleaning woman - so you got your 5% right there!)

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

21. That's low, even for Faux...

I'm sure they'll find a way to keep their fundie hero above 30%!!! :sarcasm:

NBC/WSJ was 29% a few weeks ago, so at least they're within 10 points this time. But still, he's in the cellar. You know you're screwed when even the poll of the very channel that lives to help spew your agenda can't help your numbers!

[tiptoe]

22. Check it out: 2001-2007, Bush Approv Ratings ( Fox= bright pink squares, regularly ABOVE the Mean...

...especially recent months)