Jul 10 2007
Congress Less Popular Than Bush
It is interesting to see how the nation views our leadership, and the damage done on Bush by his immigration push. First we see that while Bush is not very popular, he has greater support than Congress. First Bush:
Bush’s approval rating has reached a new low: 29%.
Interestingly, that support is coming from the right of center who have not been driven over the edge by the immigration issue. And that group, the far right, still only represents a minority of conservatives and Republicans:
Bush’s support is eroding among Republicans: 68% approve of him, down from an average 92% in his first term, 82% in his second. Nearly 4 in 10 Republicans say the immigration debate, which ended in defeat for Bush’s overhaul proposal, caused them to lose confidence in him.
As I have said, the amnesty hypochondriac wing of the right is a minority of those supporting Bush and do NOT represent the moderate middle who seem to be standing by Bush. But however things fall out, Bush is still more popular than Congress:
Congress, typically never all that popular to begin with, starts the second half of 2007 with an anemic job approval rating of about 25 percent, down from 43 percent in January, with one Gallup poll ranking lawmakers at 14 percent.
It is still a race to the bottom in DC. Pols need to remember one thing – Bush is not facing the voters anymore and has no designated successor.
I have to say I am beginning to wonder about some of these polls. They just do not seem right to me.
Where are the Bush supporters going? To the Democratic party? Or independents?
the funny think about Pelosi and Reid is that they’ve convinced themselves that they’re unpopular because they haven’t tried to surrender hard enough.
AJ
This may not directly correlate to your hypocrondriac issue.
It may be that many of those were displeased he was offering support to a bill that had all sorts of faults on it’s own merits.
So they may be all for immigration reform in general, but study showed them this wasn’t the way to do it with the features this particular bill had.
What is sick is how the Democrats are harping about the Iraqi government producing nothing or almost nothing; yet, at the same time, what have they accomplished since January other than an increase in minimum wage, naming of a few new post office buildings, and a fight over the emergency defense bill????
Crosspatch, your description makes good sense as far as troop reduction by next spring.
What is sick is how the Democrats are harping about the Iraqi government producing nothing or almost nothing; yet, at the same time, what have they accomplished since January other than an increase in minimum wage, naming of a few new post office buildings, and a fight over the emergency defense bill????
For the life of me, I cannot see how AJ can draw the conclusion: “As I have said, the amnesty hypochondriac wing of the right is a minority of those supporting Bush and do NOT represent the moderate middle who seem to be standing by Bush” from these numbers. Forget the first term numbers, we now have a drop from 82% to 68%. The four out of ten number losing confidence because of immigration has no seeming relationship to the drop. Nor can anyone conclude from all this, as AJ does, that “moderate middle who seem to be standing by Bush” is in fact the moderate middle as opposed to the hard right or left right or the up down. There is simply no way to justify the conclusion that AJ draws.
Rick
Rick C,
It is simple math – don’t try to over think it:
“nearly 4 in 10 Republicans say the immigration debate, which ended in defeat for Bush’s overhaul proposal, caused them to lose confidence in him.”
40% lost confidence in Bush over immigration – those are the hypochondriacs. Those NOT bothered by Bush’s stance on immigration where 60%.
Doesn’t get any clearer than that.
A majority of republicans support the President…as it should be during a time of intense war, one that we have never seen the likes of in our history, imho.