How, in the name of God, do you plan to run a campaign that has any chance of succeeding when a number like this is staring you in the face ?
Eighty-two percent of Americans now say the country’s seriously off on the wrong track, up 10 points in the last year to a point from its record high in polls since 1973.
Views on the nation’s overall direction are sour across the board, again with a partisan and ideological slant: While 95 percent of Democrats and 86 percent of independents say the country’s off on the wrong track, this eases to 62 percent of Republicans and 66 percent of conservatives.
Not to mention these numbers:
31 percent approve of Bush’s job performance overall, while 66 percent disapprove.
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Bush’s approval rating has been extraordinarily stable — before today’s 31 percent it had been 32 percent or 33 percent in nine ABC/Post polls from July through last month. In presidential approval polls by Gallup since 1934, just three presidents have gone lower: Jimmy Carter, who bottomed out at 28 percent approval in July 1979; Richard Nixon, 24 percent in July and August 1974; and Harry Truman, 22 percent in February 1952.
I’m beginning to think that the true tale of this election is going to be found in these numbers.
The public is pissed at the Republican Party and the Bush Administration, for good reason I would argue.
If McCain somehow manages to win this thing, it would be a miracle to say the least.
H/T: Brendan Loy
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