After all the celebrating by Republicans over Bush's dramatic rise in the polls to a breathtaking approval rating in the low 40s, we're sorry [sarcasm] to report that the good times are over already. So the RNC might want to hold off on that order for the party hats and noise makers.
The new Zogby poll puts our Bubble Boy back in the disgraced 30s.
Of course, there's always the possibility that the reports of Bush's painful climb all the way up to the 40s were actually bought and paid for by the U.S. Department of Propaganda.
Zogby: [snippets]
Just 38% of Americans said they approve of the job the President is doing, down from 41% in a national Zogby America survey conducted last month.
Bush is most popular in the western United States, where 46% approve of the job he is doing, and the South, where 44% approve. Just 28% in the East and 37% in the Midwest and Great Lakes states give him good marks.
Mr. Bush won re-election last year with solid support among those who live in “red” states, but 55% who live there now said he was doing only a fair or poor job.
Mr. Bush still has problems with much of his political base. While 85% who consider themselves “very conservative” say he is doing a good job, just 73% of “conservatives” gave him good marks – this as he has taken recent steps to burnish his conservative credentials. While he won re-election last year with the support of 91% of Republicans, just 77% of GOPers now approve of his performance. Just 11% of Democrats approve, and only one in four independents (24%) approve.
"Perhaps most ominous for the President is that only 52% of self-described born-again Protestants give him a positive job performance rating," said John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International.
The intensity of opinion among those disapproving of Mr. Bush’s job was remarkable.
Bush Zogby Poll Job Approval
