{"id":1770,"date":"2006-04-11T08:25:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/poll-finds-bush-job-rating-at-new-low\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T08:28:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T14:28:29","slug":"poll-finds-bush-job-rating-at-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/poll-finds-bush-job-rating-at-new-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Finds Bush Job Rating at New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/10\/AR2006041000259.html?referrer=email\">Poll Finds Bush Job Rating at New Low<\/a> By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane, Washington Post Staff Writers<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/graphic\/2006\/04\/11\/GR2006041100131.gif\" alt=\"poll results\" class=\"right\" \/>Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush&#8217;s standing with the public to a new low, at the same time that Republican fortunes on Capitol Hill also are deteriorating, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that 38 percent of the public approve of the job Bush is doing, down three percentage points in the past month and his worst showing in Post-ABC polling since he became president. Sixty percent disapprove of his performance.<\/p>\n<p>With less than seven months remaining before the midterm elections, Bush&#8217;s political troubles already appear to be casting a long shadow over them. Barely a third of registered voters, 35 percent, approve of the way the Republican-led Congress is doing its job &#8212; the lowest level of support in nine years. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s job approval rating has remained below 50 percent for nearly a year. Perhaps more ominous for the president, <strong class=\"highlight\"><em>47<\/em> percent in the latest poll say they &#8220;strongly&#8221; disapprove of Bush&#8217;s handling of the presidency &#8212; more than double the 20 percent who strongly approve<\/strong>. It marked the second straight month that the proportion of Americans intensely critical of the president was larger than his overall job approval rating. <strong class=\"highlight\">In comparison, the percentage who strongly disapproved of President Bill Clinton on that measure never exceeded 33 percent in Post-ABC News polls.<\/strong> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[M]ore than four in 10 Americans &#8212; <strong class=\"highlight\">45 percent &#8212; favor censuring or formally reprimanding Bush<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/graphic\/2006\/04\/11\/GR2006041100130.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/graphic\/2006\/04\/11\/GR2006041100130.gif\" alt=\"Bush approval slides\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll Finds Bush Job Rating at New Low By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane, Washington Post Staff Writers Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush&#8217;s standing with the public to a new low, at the same time that Republican fortunes on Capitol Hill also are deteriorating, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/poll-finds-bush-job-rating-at-new-low\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll Finds Bush Job Rating at New Low<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}