bush polling lower than pre-9/11

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remember just prior to 9/11, when bush was being considered 'irrelevant' due to his miserable approval numbers?

well, he's outdone himself. he's now polling worse than he was prior to 9/11.

repeat: he's squandered all the popularity boost he's gotten due to 9/11 and then some.

[NWHarkness]

1. Makes you feel proud to have always been against him, doesn't it?

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2. thank goodness they're so OBVIOUS, eh?

imagine is bush were actually GOOD at propaganda!

[neuvocat]

3. Pretty much.

Even without 911 he's still been a lame duck in the White House (as opposed to a lame duck President).

[Old and In the Way]

4. That trend line supports a Bush 35% level in late October.

F9/11 will be political acid for Bush.....and Iraq, Plame, Democratic convention, Debates, the budget, and ??? to come....

[tritsofme]

7. I think his core support is somewhere around 40%

And I doubt that he will sink below that level.

Somewhere he will hit a bottom and somewhere Kerry will hit a ceiling, if anything due to the stark polarization of the country.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

11. I couldn't ask for something more.... delicious

seeing his approval even at 40% would make me happy.

[PVnRT]

5. That's gorgeous

Seriously, it's beautiful.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. He's now below the 50% incumbents have needed...

to win. These people don't play by anyone's traditional rules, however, and I'm reluctant to predict an outcome. God knows what they will do to keep a Democrat out of the WH.

[tritsofme]

8. It is troubling however that he has not sunk to the level of his father

and Jimmy Carter at this stage of the campaign.

They both found themselves in the 30% range in June of their election years.

bush finds himself in a gray area, not to the lows of Carter and 41, and yet not as high as Reagan and Clinton who found themselves in the mid 50% range. Today I heard some pundit say that no president has lost reelection with an approval rating so high, and the other snapped back that never had an incumbent won reelection with such a low approval. That means this election can still go either way, and we need to work every day like we're 15 points down in the polls.

[DeepModem Mom]

10. That's true -- close to 50% means it could go either way n/t

[flaminbats]

9. I knew there was a reason for Ashcroft's recent warnings...

time to scare the living hell out of the voters, get ready for the mininuke attack..coming soon at a large city near you! :scared: