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I didn't know Bush had a rating when Nixon was president.
Bush Approval Rating Lowest Since Nixon.
what a heel to be compared to...comparing the relatively crooked Nixon to the insane liar Dubya. Nixon must be spinning in his grave!
CBS Poll: No Second Honeymoon
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2005
(CBS) As President Bush heads into his second term, a CBS News/New York Times poll finds a widespread feeling among Americans that the nation is headed in the wrong direction and little expectation that Mr. Bush's policies will change things over the next four years.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans say their outlook on a second Bush term is generally optimistic – a low number when compared to Mr. Bush's approval rating before his first term or Bill Clinton's before his second. At the same time, 56 percent say the country is on the wrong track, versus 39 percent who say it is on the right track.
Looking four years down the line, most Americans see very little changing, despite the ambitious agenda Mr. Bush is laying out for his second term.
Most expect they will be as safe from terror at the end of a second Bush term as they are today, but not safer. They think the economy and education system will be the same, but not better.
Despite Mr. Bush's focus on tax cuts, 41 percent of Americans say their taxes will be higher in four years, while just 9 percent say their taxes will be lower; 47 percent expect their taxes to be the same.
While Mr. Bush has a stated goal of cutting the national deficit in half, two-thirds of Americans expect the deficit to be higher after four years.
A slight plurality of Americans, 38 percent, say there will be fewer U.S. troops in Iraq by the end of a second Bush term. But 30 percent say there will be more, and 28 percent say the number will be the same.
As for the most ambitious and controversial item on Mr. Bush's agenda – overhauling Social Security - Americans expect to see big changes by 2008. But 50 percent say Mr. Bush's call for private retirement savings accounts is a bad idea, versus 45 percent who say it's a good idea.
Support for Social Security privatization drops even lower when people are informed it would mean cuts in the guaranteed benefits paid to retirees. Seventy-eight percent say combining benefit cuts and private investment accounts is a bad idea.
I didn't know Bush had a rating when Nixon was president.
He did: Drunk and disorderly.I didn't know Bush had a rating when Nixon was president.
Wouldn't that be a "reading"?
Details, details...isn't the BAL breath test kind of a "rating"?
a CBS News/New York Times poll
oh ok.
You won's see it on FoxNews.
Johnny, you can post all this you want but the fact remains that suck ass Kerry lost! Get over it! Must suck to be you.
Who cares..what does approval rating mean anyways..he's got 4 more years...an approval rating isn't going to mean .
yeah .. the republican part is truly the party of inclusion ..
i kid, i kid.
man, bush just won the election by a majority and his approvals still aren't that great... imagine if kerry had won! he would have had like a 5% approval rating!
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