timberlandko wrote:That Newsweek poll is ammunition for The Opposition, and likely will get more play on The Left than will either of the similar, essentially contemporaneous Fox and Gallup polls, which offer rather different results. The Newsweek poll's divergence from the indications of a larger body of polls, including Pew Research, Zogby, ARG, and others besides the afore mentioned Fox and Gallup surveys merits attention, for sure. I would be unsurprised, really, if there developed a convergence of downturns for Bush the Younger over the next few weeks, as The Democrats, by virtue of the primaries, get more and more press.
Concerning the
approval rates for GWB, Timber's assertions about the "divergence" of the Newsweek poll from the "larger body of polls" seem to be rapidly getting disproven as his subsequent prediction about downturns for GWB becomes true ...
The 1/22 Newsweek poll itself, which had Bush's approval fall to 50%, was already preceded by the 1/12 CBS poll, in which it did, too. It has now been followed up by a 1/31 Quinnipiac University Poll, in which it fell to 48%, a 2/1 CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, in which it fell to 49%, as well as a new (1/30) Newsweek poll, in which it fell to 49% too.
Only the Fox and ABC/WaPo polls are still lagging.
The Gallup poll is significant also because the
disapproval rate shot up to 48%, higher than any poll since Bush's term began has had it.
