(CNN) Poll: Most think Bush is failing second term (58%)

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/26/bush.poll/

Poll: Most think Bush is failing second term

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of Americans are more likely to vote for a candidate in November's congressional elections who opposes President Bush, and 58 percent consider his second term a failure so far, according to a poll released Thursday.

Fewer people consider Bush to be honest and trustworthy now than did a year ago, and 53 percent said they believe his administration deliberately misled the public about Iraq's purported weapons program before the U.S. invasion in 2003, the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found.

Pollsters interviewed 1,006 American adults Friday through Sunday. Most questions in the survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. (Poll)

Bush is preparing for his State of the Union address, set for next week, and told reporters Thursday that he is "looking forward" to campaigning for Republicans in November's elections. (Full story)

[Horse with no Name]

1. Yet the Democrats are unable to stop anything he does

What gives?:shrug:

[mrcheerful]

2. Its called money talks everyone else walks.

[rodeodance]

3. help him fail!

[rfranklin]

4. And may he lead the Republican lemmings off the cliff...

Ein, Swei, Drei!

[49jim]

7. 2006 could be the end of the

power-hungry repubs for the next 20 years...

[Squatch]

5. Not good news, is it?

If he's failing, that means he's failing us. I wish we had a competent administration.

[Kahuna]

6. Wait until * announces next week that he wants to reform health care...

We'll take back congress and the senate next year. :rofl:

[samhsarah]

20. So true

I can't wait:popcorn: :rofl:

[Kelvin Mace]

8. Only 58%?

That's depressing.

[Fovea]

13. I think that's gallup for you.

I suspect the number is higher.

[Thor_MN]

29. Gallup needs to expand it's dialers to more than the GOP National offices

and church directories.

Actually, the way the questions are asked has everything to do with the results. What I can the "Jay Walking" effect skews the results - people at some level are calculating "What answer is going to get me on TV?" or "Is there a prize for giving the answer they are looking for?"

[pinniped]

9. No surprise there, the jerk failed miserably in the first stolen term.

You think more people would have seen thru his first four years of BS and voted for John Kerry.

Suckers, all suckers.

I can see those repuke polichickens now, presidunce *, I don't know him!

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

10. "looking forward" to campaigning for Republicans: PLEASE come to PA

Please campaign frequently for Rick Santorum with lots and lots of photographs for the papers/internet.

[sniffa]

11. oh no!

they may make him repeat the second grade. :cry:

[applegrove]

12. See! The truth is getting out! Dems on right track. n/t

[FogerRox]

14. because he is---

[ananda]

15. Only remember, in BushBizarroWorld..

.. failure means success.

The haves and havemores have even more,
and everyone else is screwed.

Hang the country and the world.

Sue

[grytpype]

16. "He said the November elections would be about 'peace and prosperity.'"

WHAT fricking DRUGS is he on? I want some, seriously! It's the only way I'll be able to get through another three years of his bullshit!

[grytpype]

17. Read the whole article, the numbers are horrible for Bush!

And great for the Reality Based Community!

Second term a failure: 58 / success: 38
Entire presidency a failure 52 / success: 46
Support a congressional candidate who opposes him: 51 / supports him: 40
Dissatisfied with the way things are going: 62 / satisfied 35!!!
Things have gotten worse in last five years, 64 / better 28!!!!
Divider 54, uniter 41
Bush deliberately lied about WMD, 53!!!!
Economy getting worse, 54!!!

[sabra]

18. Holy Moly - that's horrible... poor BushCo

[robbedvoter]

19. Hate to spoil the fun, but....

I made a signature from this great paragraph from a great rant - expresses my views more eloquently than I could:


"You really have to wonder what kind of bloated house-bound moron could think slumping polls and plummeting approval ratings would worry a gang of fanatics who stole two elections in a row, invaded a country they knew couldn’t defend itself, and gave a male hustler White House security clearance."

[Gloria]

21. But he'll leave a trail of wreckage behind him when he finally

leaves DC....the Courts at all level have been destroyed....

[Az_lefty]

22. Good to see people waking up...

but it's taken them way too long. Maybe this will move some more Dem's to filibuster Alito. One can only hope.

[wordpix2]

23. Bush Press Conf Discussed on Olbermann: * is totally losing it

http://www.canofun.com/blog/default.asp

[yorkiemommie1]

24. think the '9/11, 9/11, terra, terra, gay marriage , abortion ' memes

will work again?

[Art_from_Ark]

25. Probably

They've worked every time before :banghead:

[yorkiemommie1]

26. what i see in people i know

is that they see what is going on and complain mildly or suffer in silence or ignorance, then fall right into the GOP's clutches at the next election. well, sometimes they don't 'fall'... they go willingly.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

27. The first term wasn't a peach.

CNN. :eyes:

[Historic NY]

28. The wheels are on the verge of falling off completely......

a few more months of Abramoff, Iraq, Hamas, elections mid-term & etc. should just about do it.

[dchill]

30. Not to worry, W,

I'm sure CNN will do all they can to help out!

[godai]

31. In order of decreasing support

Here's a listing, from the poll, of how * support drops with the topic:

strong and decisive 51%
honest 49
entire presidency success 46
overall approval 43
uniter 41
will vote for * backer 40
2nd term is a success 38
satisfied 35
clear plan 34
US improved 28

According to the poll, there are still about 1/3 of people who will never abandon their vote for *. It's particularly scary when you look at the uniter result. How can anyone who pays any attention to what's happening consider * a uniter! Really shows the bias and lack of judgement in that segment of the population. While I might go along somewhat with the fact that * is strong and decisive (and wrong much of the time), raising that results on that topic, honest answers to 'uniter' should be near zero, even if you otherwise support him. He's the personification of a divider politician, only concerned with his roughly 50% of the population.

Rove understands all this and all he needs to do is add 10-15% of voters to the pool, and he does this with flipity flopity voting record tactics, fear and the waronterra, swiftboating and other mind games. Unfortunately, it works.

Dems need to accept this pathetic situation and take away some of Rove's ammunition. Don't nominate Senators for President (voting record makes it harder to win), adapt a mantra that we should not be afraid ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself") and then turn the tables by talking of the culture of corruption, incompetence (Katrina, Iraq etc.) and the huge deficits and loss of life, and tens of thousands of productive lives, brought on by an unnecessary war. We're about to see a Vietnam-like pullout and declaration of victory, to try to spin this disaster into a perception of victory by the November elections. And, Rove will try to get away with spinning this but, with so many races, it's a lot harder to control and my hope is for Democratic control of the House or Senate, then the inevitable impeachment proceedings.

[gulliver]

32. Bush _is_ failure. It just took people 5 years to figure it out.

America has done nothing but suffer under him.

[llmart]

33. Hey, ask me....

I think he failed the first one too!

He's a complete failure.