aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Polls
Last week James Joyner had the president’s job approval rating up noting, “what goes down must come up.”
President George W. Bush’s overall job approval rating has reached the lowest ever measured in this poll, and evaluations of his handling of Iraq, the economy and even his signature issue, terrorism, are also at all-time lows. More Americans than at any time since he took office think he does not share their priorities.
Last week it was CNN, at 45%. This week CBS has it at 37% (Republicans still give him 79%).
It seems flat out obvious that he will sink like a stone. An unpopular war was hurting in August, before high gas prices. On the 4th of July gas cost $2.04 here and that I recall thinking was high. A delivery we were quoted at $10 a month or so ago has gone up to $50. Winter home heating has yet to hit.
That’s just got to ripple through the economy.
Last week Joyner said, “Bush has very little control over gasoline prices, of course, but we have been conditioned to associate all events in our lives with presidential authority.”
I don’t assume Bush could have stopped this, but he could have prepared us (be preparing us now), mitigated some, done anything more than continue in denial.
Then again, he’s likely been busy with other things.
