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Bush Approval Rating now 19% -- BREAKING NEWS!
BREAKING NEWS: President George W Bush's Approval rating has DROPPED!
Today TPM shows that ARG's poll says Americans:
Approve 19%, Disapprove 76%
George W. Bush.
THIS IS NEWS FOLKS ---- AND John McCain Supported him at least 90% of the time!
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Comments (24)
in most other countries they have revolts and coup d'etats on higher approval ratings.
September 22, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
We're having a coup d'etats. What do you think this whole bank crisis is really about. Handing over the economic keys for the country to a Bush appointee for two years with no oversight.
Good golly.
September 22, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Miss Molly.
September 22, 2008 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, Bush's untrustworthiness and well-known (by the electorate) criminality is actually a national security danger, and I wish Congress was aware of it. The lack of confidence in Bush is actually driving this economic catastrophe, and Bush in turn is exploiting the hatred and despair he has endengered in the market for his own disgusting ends.
Congress- Damn them. Damn them all!
September 22, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't help pointing out that ARG is almost worthless as a polling organization. In Nate Silver's rankings, they're right there in the lower half along with Fox and CNN.
That said, I can believe that this number is somewhat accurate. I wonder how Bush managed to drop below 27%. Did 8% of the population own Merrill Lynch stock?
September 22, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
ARG is a pretty bad pollster. That said, 19% is not out of the realm of possibility.
September 22, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Back in 2001, when Bush had soaring approval ratings because of the reactionary patriotism that flowed after 9-11, some of us who knew better projected that Bush would end his days in office at the 17% President.
We made these prognostications over a few too many pitchers of beer in Davis, CA, at a local academics' watering hole one evening.
Our formula? We simple asked; "Cui Bono from a Bush admnistration?"...after we calculated out the peripheral players like the Evangelicals and the traditional fiscal conservatives, who fell hook-line-and-f*^%$#g faith-based sinker for the Big Lie and would inevitably be swallowed whole by it, the remaining big-moneyed interests totaled 17%.
Maybe we were right all the way back then.
September 23, 2008 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who?
September 22, 2008 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lmfao.
September 22, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
WAFOLPNSTBRT.
Whoops. Ass Fell Off. Laughing Paused. Normal Service To Be Resumed Tomorrow.
September 23, 2008 1:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, since McCain is only 90% Bush, we'll give him a 10% bonus, for an approval rating of 20.9%.
September 22, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
You think THIS critical moment is the time to be talking about what Americans want to grow in their gardens?
September 22, 2008 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Back to the Garden?"
"Synthetic V. Organic?"
The future needs to get back to the past, or there won't be a future to garden in...(JEP)
It isn't even just a matter of what you grow in your garden, it is a matter of how many gardens we grow. Every home-grown tomatoe is a tiny victory over the Wall Street neocon mentallity. We should be teaching our children gardening along with civics again, starting in kindergarten, or even earlier.
September 23, 2008 11:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
I feel like there must be giant trove of Bush-upsucking comments by McCain from the primaries that has not yet been unleashed.
From around the time McGoingtolose was saying things like this:
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/09/mccain-march-08-remove-regulat.html
September 22, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would like to know that those 19% are happy about? Do they all work for Haliburton and Blackwater?
September 22, 2008 6:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to think a substantial portion of the Deadender cohort are not actually supporters of Bush, but are employed in one way or another by the late light TV comedy industry.
September 22, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
How did I miss this?????
We ought to seek Sarah Palin's council here as well...
September 22, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Republicans I know have all abandoned Bush but they are still clinging to McCain. Pathetic really. I do sense they're hoping Democrats rescue them from their cognitive dissonance.
September 22, 2008 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is the Great White Maverick who will ride into Washington with his Bible in hand and his Soulmate at his side to ride roughshod over liberals and gays, reform Gods Own Party into His image, veto beers, force all 14 year old rape victims to carry to term, deregulate healthcare, start a few more wars and win the ones Bush didn't finish, achieve victory on all fronts, while putting America back on the path determined by James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh and the American Enterprise Institute.
September 22, 2008 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
The 19% are the wealthy ones promised by Bush and McCain to continue getting DEEP TAX CUTS in the future....and their BILLS PAID OFF.
September 22, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Link?
September 22, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I second that link request. I don't see it listed in the polls here.
If it ain't on this site, you need to link to it. Kinda how things work on the interwebs.
September 22, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Folks, there's an archive of all polls, categorized by topic.
Here's the Bush archive. The 9/22 poll is quoted accurately.
September 23, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
One American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html
So there. There's your 19 percent Bush lovers.
September 22, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
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