Bush At Record Low In Poll Taken After Petraeus Show
Bush has hit a record low of 29% in a new Reuters/Zogby poll released this morning. Congress is at a record low, too.
Here's the key takeaway from the survey:
Most of the polling was done after a speech by Bush and testimony to Congress by the top commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, indicating the United States would make some reductions but planned to keep high troop levels in Iraq for the foreseeable future.
The White House keeps trying to sell this war, the Congress keeps failing to stop it, and public disapproval of both those things just keeps on deepening.
Comments (6)
Hilarious wrote on September 19, 2007 10:24 AM:This should just about show Bush that he has lost all credibility and should stay away from doing anything significant over the next year.
www.campaigndiaries.com NCSteve wrote on September 19, 2007 10:37 AM:And yet, if you listen to the coverage in the MSM, you'd thing the Great and Unreproachable General Petraeus's presentation on the Great Progress of the Mighty Surge (apologies to Gleen Greenwald)had turned the tide of public opinion.
On the way home last night, I listened to an interview of the director of the Pew Research Center talking about his own poll. The numbers he and the reporter (Melissa Block) were discussing clearly showed that no one's minds had changed, yet the director kept trying to spin those numbers in a way that supported the Inside the Beltway MSM CW of the Great Success of Petraeus's Masterful Performance Before Congress. The numbers clearly said "testimony was an unqualified PR failure" and Pew's guy keeps sifting through them for some slim support for notion of "paradigm-changing success." Meanwhile, Block's interview questions veered crazily back and forth between enabling the CW and pulling the story back into the reality of the numbers.
As has happened so often during the last six years, I feared my head was going to explode.
ryan vb wrote on September 19, 2007 11:09 AM:Considering that these stunts were at least partially intended to shore up support among the GOP base and give Congressional Republicans (and candidates) some cover, this number is really amazing.
ryan vb wrote on September 19, 2007 11:12 AM:Considering that these stunts were at least partially intended to shore up support among the GOP base and give Congressional Republicans (and candidates) some cover, this number seems to indicate that even that failed. There aren't even any conservatives/former war supporters on the fence anymore.
Bigscreen88 wrote on September 19, 2007 11:15 AM:Pres. Bush displays as much interest in governing for the remainder of his term in office as he displayed in fulfilling the last 9 months of his Texas ANG term of elistment: absolutely none. True to his history and his commitment to service, he is obviously bored with his job, and has already mentally checked out of the public service and leadership roles he has sworn to fulfill.
MarcNYC wrote on September 19, 2007 11:16 AM:Despite this, and despite the clear (real/not imaginary) mandate that they were given last November, the "fearless" leadership of the Democratic Party in Congress is already laying the groundwork for their next folding act. Does anyone really doubt that the first time (OK, maybe they'll show some spine and wait for the second time)the Decider accuses the Dem "leadership" of supporting The Terrorists of refusing to support the troops, the Dems will cave and run off to their next vacation?
