7.13.2005

New NBC-Wall Street Journal Poll Not Good

That is, if your name is Dubya.

Despite what many expected to be a post-London bounce in numbers, the president fell or stayed at previously low numbers across the board. One significant change, says pollsters, is that fact that there's a heck of a drop in the poll category about Bush the person. There, he's stayed above 50% until this poll. Now he's down to 41%, the first time he's fallen so much there. Notably, this category includes trustworthiness.

According to MSNBC, he lost significant ground with women, with Independents, and another group I can't remember right now.

The poll also shows Americans are very, very unhappy with the politicking in Washington and that while they feel religion should play some role in daily life, that they do not want an extremist as a Supreme Court justice.

Congress showed figures even worse than Bush, in percentages that had not been this bad since 1994 when Newt Gingrich led the GOP takeover of the House. But Tweety Bird Matthews, on whose show these results were announced, said this meant the public wouldn't stand for filibusters or any attempts to block Mr. Bush's Supreme nominees. I guess the GOP does not politicking. ::cough::