President Bush Job Approval....51%

[bluedog]

President Bush Job Approval

**************must be the Pope gave him a bounce!***********



Sunday April 03, 2005--Fifty-one percent (51%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.

This is the President's highest rating in eleven days.

Among men, the President's Approval rating is 55%. It's seven points lower among women.

Twenty-five percent (25%) of American adults Strongly Approve of the President's job performance while 36% Strongly Disapprove.

These results are based upon surveys of American adults reported on a three-day rolling average basis. Premium Members receive daily updates of our seven-day tracking data as well.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm

[Zuni]

1. it looks like an outlier

this is important, though

Twenty-five percent (25%) of American adults Strongly Approve of the President's job performance while 36% Strongly Disapprove.

[coloradodem2005]

2. Its (R)assmussen.

What do you expect?

[Patchuli]

3. Polls don't hold much water for me

ever since the night of November 2, 2004! :nuke:

[patricia92243]

4. Isn't that how the election turned out? 51% to 49% Pubs vs Dems

Looks like it the same old same old

[illflem]

5. Rasmussen shows junior sinking down to a 48% disapprove

while most others had him down in the low 40s last week.

[FreepFryer]

6. Your signature is absolutely brilliant, illflem.

"It's not a Democracy, it's an auction!" is very impactful. Thanks!

[alcuno]

10. That's my bumpersticker! "We don't have a democracy, we have

an auction." People like it and it's anti-government, not anti-political party. While driving through Georgia, a guy pulled up next to me and yelled through the window that he loved that bumpersticker. And that was in the southern part of the state.

[Lexingtonian]

7. Rasmussen is presently an 'outlier'

along with Gallup. Basically, the problem is that about 7% of the population has what is called "soft support" for Bush- a lot depends on how you ask the question and the context as to which way they'll fall. Rasmussen and Gallup are good at telling us where the upper limit is, other pollsters generally find the lower limit or middle (presently around 44%).

Here's more complete picture- things are fuzzy at the moment. People are doing a lot to try to keep 'faith' in Bush- giving him as much benefit of the doubt as possible- but it's not going so well. The trend is- as ever- downward.

[Contrary1]

8. 51%

If they lied any more than that, it would be way too obvious.
Even with the padding, almost half the US think he's an idiot.

[Pachamama]

9. Yeah, sure, must be the great gas prices, the succesful war in Iraq & the

economy too! And ofcourse, don't forget his Social Security Piratization and the Terri Schiavo emergency bill that he signed! Boy, that all must have catapulted him to the high of 51%!

:sarcasm: OFF

Does anyone really believe he has even that level of support? Yeah, maybe amongst the predominantly conservative GOP people polled....

I think Rove and Co. realized they better parade out some better numbers for ole Chimpy to get some more credibility going....

Sorry, I ain't buying....and frankly, the American public is waking up too....

[Clarkie1]

11. That's just weird.

45% days ago, and now 51%? I don't believe any of it.

[Old and In the Way]

12. So the more screwed up things get, the better the public likes it.

Right, I believe it.

The awareness of the crimes is growing and cumulative....no way the polls should do anything but trend down over time. Personally, I think 25% is about right. That's the 25% who will never admit the truth about this administration.

[Vickers]

13. So, he's just 2 percentage points from being considered a total fuckup?

Yeah, that's awesome.

:eyes:

[WMliberal]

14. two glaring problems with that poll

Undersampling of women. No weighting to correct their undersampling.

Then there's the fact that it's (R)asmussen.