Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Bu$hCo Approval/Disapproval & Censure Numbers

The WaPo's Richard Morin and Claudia Dean are reporting Poll Finds Bush Job Rating at New Low : An Election-Year Blow to the GOP. The latest WaPo/ABD News polls are showing a 38% approval rating compared to a 60% disapproval. They also report,

Bush's job approval rating has remained below 50 percent for nearly a year. Perhaps more ominous for the president, 47 percent in the latest poll say they "strongly" disapprove of Bush's handling of the presidency -- more than double the 20 percent who strongly approve. It marked the second straight month that the proportion of Americans intensely critical of the president was larger than his overall job approval rating. In comparison, the percentage who strongly disapproved of President Bill Clinton on that measure never exceeded 33 percent in Post-ABC News polls. ...
... more than four in 10 Americans -- 45 percent -- favor censuring or formally reprimanding Bush for authorizing wiretaps of telephone calls and e-mails of terrorism suspects without court permission. Two-thirds of Democrats and half of all independents, but only one in six Republicans, support censuring Bush, the poll found. ...

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