WASHINGTON — President Bush's approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest of his presidency and a warning sign for Republicans in the November elections.
The survey of 1,013 adults, taken Friday through Sunday, shows Bush's standing down by 3 percentage points in a single week. His disapproval rating also reached a record: 65%. The margin of error is +/- 3 percentage points.
"It is a challenging political environment," acknowledges Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, "but we are confident that ultimately voters in November will recognize that a Democrat Congress would simply not be equipped to ensure either economic or national security for our nation."
Got to love the comedic humor of RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt. Bush is now down to 31 percent popularity, and Schmitt is saying that the Americans will realize that a Democratic Congress will be bad for the country?
Is it me, or am I starting to see pink elephants dancing around my head?
Continuing on with the story:
Bush's fall is being fueled by erosion among support from conservatives and Republicans. In the poll, 52% of conservatives and 68% of Republicans approved of the job he is doing. Both are record lows among those groups.
Moderates gave him an approval rating of 28%, liberals of 7%.
"You hear people say he has a hard core that will never desert him, and that has been the case for most of the administration," says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin who studies presidential approval ratings. "But for the last few months, we started to see that hard core seriously erode in support."
All together now--The Republicans are deserting George Bush! The Bush White House has been slammed with scandals, incompetence, corruption, war fatigue, illegal spying, Katrina, high gas prices, stagnating wages--you name it, it is there. People are waking up to the fact that this country is on the wrong track, and that we have a president so intent on "staying the course," rather than adapting to new policies and solutions that he may not politically, or ideologically agree with. The moderates are deserting him--at 28 percent approval ratings. And now the conservatives are deserting him, with a 3-point drop in a single week. What is more, the hard core conservatives may not drop President Bush or the Republicans at the polls in November--they just might not show up at the polls in the first place.
More to come.
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