Bush Poll Numbers Virtually Unchanged After Iraq Trip
(CNSNews.com) - President George W. Bush's surprise Thanksgiving Day trip to visit the troops in Iraq has had relatively little impact on his job performance rating, which remained about the same from mid-October to early December, a new Zogby International poll said.
The most recent Zogby poll - conducted Dec. 4-6 - gave Bush a 49 percent "positive" rating, and a 51 percent "negative" rating. That compares with 48 percent positive/52 percent negative rating in a Nov. 3-5 poll; and a 49 percent positive/ 51 percent negative in an Oct. 15-18 poll.
Nearly 3 in 5 of those contacted said their overall opinion of Bush is somewhat or very favorable, while 40 percent said it is somewhat or very unfavorable.
According to the Zogby poll, President Bush lags in his "re-elect" numbers, meaning that 44 percent of voters say he deserves to be re-elected, while 46 percent said it is time for someone new. But in early September, 52 percent of those polled said it was time for someone new to be elected.
Asked if they think the country is heading in the right direction, 46 percent said yes and 46 percent said no.
According to pollster John Zogby, "Democrats and Republicans continue to act as mirror images of each other...The concept of an equally divided nation continues," he said in a press release.
The Zogby poll of 1,002 likely voters chosen at random has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
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