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GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Trust in Federal Government Not Shaken by Katrina

Gallup's annual Governance survey, conducted Sept. 12-15, suggests that the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina have thus far had little effect on Americans' fundamental levels of confidence in the federal government. In contrast, the 9/11 terrorist attacks immediately boosted President Bush's approval ratings and ultimately strengthened public confidence in the federal government for a sustained period.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?18835,AlertPE,9/28/2005,

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Public's Ratings of Parties Low in Historical Perspective

Slightly less than half of Americans give favorable ratings to either of the major political parties. In fact, the public's favorable rating of the Republican Party is the lowest Gallup has measured since 1999, and the Democratic Party's rating is among the lowest Gallup has recorded since 1992. Consistent with recent polling, Americans believe the Republican Party is better able to handle international affairs while the Democratic Party is better on economic matters. During the course of the year, part y identification in Gallup's polling has shifted from a slight Republican advantage to a slight Democratic advantage.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?18880,AlertPE,9/29/2005,

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Public Divided Over Future Ideology of Supreme Court

A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds Americans closely divided as to whether the next Supreme Court nominee should make the court more conservative, more liberal, or not change its ideological composition. Relatively few Americans think it is essential that the next justice is a woman, and even fewer think it is essential that the next justice is Hispanic or black. The Supreme Court's recent job approval rating has recovered after taking a hit near the end of the court's last term.

< div>http://www.gallup.com/nl/?18895,AlertPE,9/30/2005,

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

Consumer Views on Economy Show Little Change as September Ends

Americans remain negative about the direction of the U.S. economy, and the majority say current economic conditions are only fair or poor. There is little evidence to suggest that these attitudes have become significantly more negative as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The big drop in positive sentiment came in late August, before Katrina. Americans' concerns over rising fuel prices appear to have abated to some degree by late September.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?18919,AlertBE,10/3/2005,

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Nearly Half of Americans Think U.S. Will Soon Have a Woman President

A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds that the vast majority of Americans say they would personally vote for a qualified woman for president. Slightly less than half the public thinks that the United States will have a female president within the next 10 years, but most think there will be a female president within 25 years. In general, Americans think a female president would better handle domestic policy, while a man would better handle national security.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?18937,AlertPE,10/4/2005,

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Public Reaction to Miers Lukewarm

A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey shows Americans divided over the nomination of Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. The division is largely along political lines, with Republicans supporting the president's choice and Democrats mostly opposed. The public views Miers' lack of judicial experience, close personal ties to President George W. Bush, and lack of a "paper trail" on legal issues more negatively than positively. Most Americans believe Miers should be required to explain her views on abort ion before being confirmed.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?18979,AlertPE,10/5/2005,

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> RELIGION AND SOCIAL TRENDS

Most Americans Approve of Interracial Dating

Most Americans say they approve of interracial dating. Even though most whites approve, they are somewhat less likely to approve of interracial dating than are blacks or Hispanics. Interracial and interethnic dating is not uncommon in the United States, according to self-reports in the survey. Slightly less than half of Americans say they have dated someone from a different racial or ethnic background, with Hispanics more likely than whites or blacks to say this.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?19033,AlertSP,10/7/2005,

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Democrats Growing Wary of Federal Government's Power

Although relatively few Americans consider the federal government a "threat" to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens, half believe the federal government today has too much power. Half also say it is doing too many things that should be left to the private sector. Especially in the past year, Democrats have become more critical of the amount of power wielded by the federal government -- the majority of Democrats now say it has too much power -- but they continue to favor an active role for governmen t in solving the nation's problems.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?19063,AlertPE,10/10/2005,

[bassetman]

The GOP is getting Dems to distrust Gov!

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Americans Want Leaders to Pay Attention to Public Opinion

Americans have great faith in themselves as a guiding force in a democracy. As a result, they think the nation would be better off if their elected representatives paid more, rather than less, attention to the views of the people, including those views as measured in public opinion polls. There is a significant paradox, however. Americans don't understand how a random sample of only 1,000 people can accurately represent the views of millions. The public, in short, accepts the philosophic underpinnings of polling and its increased use by elected leaders, but has yet to be convinced that polling works.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?19138,AlertPE,10/12/2005,

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> RELIGION AND SOCIAL TRENDS

Most Americans Engaged in Debate About Evolution, Creation

A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds three-quarters of Americans have thought at least a moderate amount about the origin of human beings, and two-thirds say it matters to them which theory about how human beings came to exist is correct. Americans are more likely to endorse a purely creationist view of the origin of humans than a purely evolutionary view or a view involving elements of both. Majorities of the public say evolution and creationism should be taught in public school science classes, while fewer believe intelligent design should be taught.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?19207,AlertSP,10/13/2005,

[poochee]

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

At Least 100,000 Katrina Victims Still Separated From Families

Six weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and surrounding areas, a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey of hurricane victims finds many still separated from their families, including a large number of parents still not reunited with their children. Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs and their homes, and many are concerned about the possibility of another Katrina-like disaster. Though New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is now urging residents of the city to return to their homes, many app arently will not do so.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?19225,AlertPE,10/14/2005,

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by poochee

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Bush Ratings Reach Low Points of Presidency

Despite President George W. Bush's major address to the country last week, his popularity has sunk to the lowest level of his presidency. His overall job approval rating ties for the lowest it has ever been, while his ratings in other areas are the worst Gallup has measured. Americans are guardedly optimistic about the government's ability to help Hurricane Katrina victims, but a majority wants to cut back spending in the Iraq war to help pay for the hurricane damage. Overwhelmingly, Americans want an independent pan el, not Congress, to investigate the reasons for the government's slow response.

http://www.gallup.com/nl/?18712,AlertPE,9/20/2005,

President's 'terrible' rating better than last 7 President's

Worst approval marks from LBJ to Clinton all lower than Bush's

Despite the fact President Bush's job approval ratings have dropped to the lowest point of his presidency, they still remain higher than the low-point ratings of the last seven presidents, including his predecessor Bill Clinton.

A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows Bush's job approval at 38 percent.

"President George W. Bush's poll numbers are going from bad to worse," said the Pew report. "His job approval rating has fallen to another new low, as has public satisfaction with national conditions, which now stands at just 29 percent. And for the first time since taking office in 2001, a plurality of Americans believe that George W. Bush will be viewed as an unsuccessful president."

Data from six polling organizations in October show an average of 39.5 percent job approval for Bush.

But according to the Gallup Organization, that's a higher mark than the low points for all commanders in chief dating back to Lyndon Johnson in the mid 1960s.

The low points for recent commanders in chief can be found at the link.

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[bassetman]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

President's 'terrible' rating better than last 7 President's

Worst approval marks from LBJ to Clinton all lower than Bush's

Despite the fact President Bush's job approval ratings have dropped to the lowest point of his presidency, they still remain higher than the low-point ratings of the last seven presidents, including his predecessor Bill Clinton.

A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows Bush's job approval at 38 percent.

"President George W. Bush's poll numbers are going from bad to worse," said the Pew report. "His job approval rating has fallen to another new low, as has public satisfaction with national conditions, which now stands at just 29 percent. And for the first time since taking office in 2001, a plurality of Americans believe that George W. Bush will be viewed as an unsuccessful president."

Data from six polling organizations in October show an average of 39.5 percent job approval for Bush.

But according to the Gallup Organization, that's a higher mark than the low points for all commanders in chief dating back to Lyndon Johnson in the mid 1960s.

The low points for recent commanders in chief are as follows:


Bill Clinton: 37 percent

George H. W. Bush: 29 percent

Ronald Reagan: 35 percent

Jimmy Carter: 28 percent

Gerald Ford: 37 percent

Richard Nixon: 24 percent

Lyndon Johnson: 35 percent

To find presidents with higher low-point approval ratings than Bush, one has to go back to John Kennedy at 56 percent, and Dwight Eisenhower at 48 percent.

The Power Line blog notes: "The reality is that the Republican base is holding remarkably firm, in the face of a media onslaught against the Bush administration that has no parallel in modern history, and following months of little but bad news: gas prices, hurricanes, and casualties in Iraq (the only news most people hear from that part of the world)."

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THis has to be BS!

Plurality of Americans now sees Bush Presidency as failure
By Finfacts Team
Oct 14, 2005, 11:15

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The Pew Research Center is an independent American opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. On Thursday, the Center published a comprehensive poll of Americans on their views of President Bush and his policies.

A summary of the poll results is provided below.

http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusin...10003629.shtml

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A Polling Free-Fall Among Blacks

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, October 13, 2005; 3:09 PM

In what may turn out to be one of the biggest free-falls in the history of presidential polling, President Bush's job-approval rating among African Americans has dropped to 2 percent, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

The drop among blacks drove Bush's overall job approval ratings to an all-time low of 39 percent in this poll. By comparison, 45 percent of whites and 36 percent of Hispanics approve of the job Bush is doing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101300885.html
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Others paying price for Bush failure

McCain and Rice: Guaranteed Losers for ‘08
Written by Christopher Adamo
Friday, October 14, 2005


If Republican “moderates” should have learned anything from the furor over President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to replace retiring Justice Sandra O’Connor, it is that conservatives do not pursue personalities. They follow principle.



Unfortunately, the Republican National Committee has been too busy “carrying the water” for the president to reflect on the discontent being expressed by even the most stalwart members of the Republican base. Apparently, party politics trumps regard for the “grassroots.”



Yet if Miers is indeed confirmed, and if once on the court, she proves not to be a pro-Constitution originalist, conservative backlash will vastly exceed all of the uproar voiced since her nomination. Unfortunately, key players in Republican circles have not seemed to hear this message. But they remain indifferent at their own peril.



During this past week, a couple of events have foreshadowed a possible “crack-up” within Republican ranks that could potentially undo every conservative gain of the past twenty years, and may ultimately re-establish the liberal/Democrat stranglehold on Washington that was decisively broken in 1994.

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/co...301&catcode=13
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Bush Betrays Base
Pankaj Prakash

Two days after winning re-election last fall, President George W. Bush declared he had earned plenty of political capital, and "now I intend to spend it." As the events of the last six months suggest, he might have already spent all of it.

Mismanagement of a national disaster, soaring gas prices, a series of investigations and indictments, a failed initiative to reform social security, a quagmire in Iraq and now his worst nightmare - his recent appointment of his crony, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court. Bush's second term is on a downward spiral. His approval ratings have hit a new low of 37 percent, according to a recent CBS news poll.

Bush has become a "trust me" president whom nobody trusts. Democrats never trusted him on anything anyway. But now even his own base, the conservatives, doesn't trust him anymore. All for good reason, though. They trusted him on fiscal responsibility but what they got was a president who is a spendthrift. A president who has done more discretionary spending than even Lyndon Johnson and who hasn't vetoed a single spending bill in his entire tenure. They trusted him to fight and win the War on Terror, but got a war fought with incompetence and complete lack of planning, resulting in the endless meandering in Iraq. They also trusted him to hire competent people, and above all, to appoint more justices in the mold of Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who can move the highest court of the land decisively to the right. Instead, what they got were sometimes purely incompetent and sometimes just mediocre cronies, at every place in the government from FEMA to the Supreme Court.


...http://www.sierratimes.com/05/10/14/...7_80_20499.htm

[bassetman]

No G W # here, but we know his current #'s.