{"id":1748,"date":"2005-08-22T16:51:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T20:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2005-08-22T16:51:38","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T20:51:38","slug":"bush-approval-ratings-continue-to-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"Bush Approval Ratings Continue to Sink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by David Edwards<\/i><\/p>\n

The American Research Group<\/i> published the latest poll showing more bad news for President Bush<\/a>.<\/p>\n

George W. Bush’s overall job approval ratings have dropped from a month ago even as Americans who approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president are turning more optimistic about their personal financial situations according to the latest survey from the American Research Group. Among all Americans, 36% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 58% disapprove. When it comes to Bush’s handling of the economy, 33% approve and 62% disapprove.<\/p>\n

Among Americans registered to vote, 38% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 56% disapprove, and 36% approve of the way Bush is handling the economy and 60% disapprove.<\/p>\n

This is the second month in a row when improving economic ratings have not been matched by higher job approval ratings for Bush. A total of 24% of Americans now say their personal financial situations are getting better, up from 17% in July, and 27% say they believe that their personal financial situations will be better off a year from now, which is up from 21% in July.<\/p>\n

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\nOverall, 36% of Americans say that they approve of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president, 58% disapprove, and 6% are undecided. <\/p>\n\n\n
Bush job approval<\/B><\/TD>Approve<\/B><\/TD>Disapprove<\/B><\/TD>Undecided<\/B><\/TD><\/TR>
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Aug 2005<\/TD>36%<\/TD>58%<\/TD>6%<\/TD><\/TR>
July 2005<\/TD>42%<\/TD>52%<\/TD>6%<\/TD><\/TR>
Jun 2005<\/TD>42%<\/TD>53%<\/TD>5%<\/TD><\/TR>
May 2005<\/TD>43%<\/TD>51%<\/TD>6%<\/TD><\/TR>
Apr 2005<\/TD>44%<\/TD>50%<\/TD>6%<\/TD><\/TR>
Mar 2005<\/TD>47%<\/TD>48%<\/TD>5%<\/TD><\/TR>
Feb 2005<\/TD>49%<\/TD>45%<\/TD>6%<\/TD><\/TR>
Jan 2005<\/TD>51%<\/TD>44%<\/TD>5%<\/TD><\/TR>
Dec 2004<\/TD>50%<\/TD>45%<\/TD>5%<\/TD><\/TR>
Nov 2004<\/TD>51%<\/TD>43%<\/TD>6%<\/TD><\/TR>
Oct 2004 <\/TD>45%<\/TD>47%<\/TD>8%<\/TD><\/TR>
Sep 2004<\/TD>45%<\/TD>48%<\/TD>7%<\/TD><\/TR>
Aug 2004<\/TD>43%<\/TD>50%<\/TD>7%<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/CENTER><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Guest blogged by David Edwards The American Research Group published the latest poll showing more bad news for President Bush. George W. Bush’s overall job approval ratings have dropped from a month ago even as Americans who approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president are turning more optimistic about their personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}