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January 25, 2005
Zogby Poll: Bush Job Approval Lags, 'Shame' Quotient Rises
President Bush's job approval rating still hovers at 49 percent, and that's the good news for the white house, according to a new Zogby America Poll conducted January 18-21. The poll also found that 31 percent of respondents said they were "ashamed that Mr. Bush is their President," a substantial increase from 26 percent a month earlier.
Yee-Ha Is Not A Foreign Policy
Bush's increasingly negative image appears to be driven in large part by eroding confidence in the Administration's foreign policy. A majority of respondents in the aforementioned Zogby Poll, 52 percent, now agree that the results of the war in Iraq have "not been worth the lost lives," up from 50 percent in the previous Zogby Poll, and 55 percent of Americans are "not confident about democracy's prospects" in Iraq. Looking ahead. 76 percent of the respondents said they were "opposed to the U.S. trying to bring about regime change in Iran" and only 19 percent favored some form of military action to compel Iran's cooperation in nuclear disarmamment, while 68 percent favored some form of diplomacy.
“Public opinion has been turning against the Iraq war and our continued presence there,” said pollster John Zogby. “Americans continue to support the January 30th elections, but that support is half-hearted—only one-in-three still believe a democratic Iraq is a strong likelihood. And they certainly have no stomach for military action against Iran.”
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