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19%? Now that’s a number I can get behind

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From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

President Bush’s approval rating has sunk to a new low in a Wisconsin poll by the firm Strategic Vision, with only 19% of those surveyed approving of Bush’s job performance.

In 15 previous surveys by the firm dating back to fall 2005, the president’s approval rating has ranged from 38% to 24% (in May). Bush has been at or near personal lows this summer in many national polls.

Oh, and the polling firm, Strategic Vision? A GOP firm, based in Atlanta, GA.

21 thoughts on 19%? Now that’s a number I can get behind

  2. If I remember correctly from the state-to-state polls, the only place he’s above 50% is… wait for it… UTAH! You crazy Mormon bastiches!

  3. Well, then, isn’t it about time to raise the terror alert level? Give us a good scare, get us back in line? Karl, are you listening? Karl? Karl?

  4. This has got to be some kind of new record low… doesn’t it? When do we get to officially place Bush on the roster of worst presidents of all time? Worst world leaders of all time?

  7. Aesmael, Wisconsin leans liberal, and national polls generally put Bush at less than 30% these days.

    I’d be very surprised to see Bush polling at more than about 25% in Wisconsin right now, and 19% isn’t ridiculous.

  8. Jonah Goldberg’s column this morning says that Bush still has an 80% approval rating among Republicans. Surprising, if true.

    But with Goldberg, of course, that’s a big “if.”

  10. Is it any wonder that we are now getting a constant stream of news reports about the increasing terrorist threat? It’s all too similar to the run up to the last election.

  11. But according to George Bush, this just means that 81% of Americans are wrong.

    A staggering number- that’s why he’s working with hie team of advisors to address the problem and re-educate these Americans, that is, to help them learn how to be better, smarter Americans.

    He’s calling it the “No American Left Behind Act”, and he won’t rest until every American has the chance to learn and grow. That is, to have the same opportunities as the 18% of Americans who are already right.

    And if states don’t comply by the end of ’07 with his new initiative, he will withhold those states’ tax refunds…

  12. Ok, I really hope that he gets really low percetages, he needs to be kicked out of the White House ASAP, everyone knows that!

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  15. No, Brooklynite, I really don’t think Wisconsin leans liberal. I think it is a real reactionary swing state. Wisconsin is a Reagan liberal (as disgusting as that term is). I live here in a small conservative town. Milwaukee and especially Madison are liberal but if you knew Wisconsin up until this last election we had extreme mouthbreathers running the state legislature.

  16. I wish Indiana were more like Wisconsin. bulsh/cheney are still heroes here. It’s like booby night slapping and choking everyone and they still come back for more.

    flo

  17. No, Brooklynite, I really don’t think Wisconsin leans liberal. I think it is a real reactionary swing state.

    It’s at least liberalish on the federal level — it has two popular Democratic Senators, and it hasn’t voted for a Republican for president since 1984.

    But you’re right that it’s a deeply divided state. If the conservative parts of Wisconsin are deserting Bush to the extent that 19% implies, that’s certainly big news.

  18. JPark and Brooklynite: I agree. Living here in Madison (the 75 square miles of reality) it is easy to forget that so much of the rest of the state is conservative. I remember when Feingold first ran for the Senate. I would drive out of Madison, where most every street had waves of blue Feingold signs. As I got further and further out, the waves of blue become peppered with the green Kasten signs. By the time I got to where my in-laws lived in Green Bay, the streets were covered in green signs (and had been for about 80 miles).

    Those areas are probably just now (given the poll numbers stated above) starting to come around to how horrible President Select Bush is. We can only hope.

  19. it is becoming like a game of limbo, isn’t it? How low CAN he go?

    unfortunately, we’re still stuck with the ratfucker till the bitter end. but i’ll take schadenfreude over no freude, sure.

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  21. Brooklynite, thank you. I did know he was polling low these days, but since the firm in question was pointed out as being partisan in the post, wondered if there could be some benefit to the GOP for him to be pegged so low.

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