Gallup: “Bush Approval Steady at 37%”

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Helping to underscore the question I asked at the end of Friday’s post, Gallup has released another national survey this morning that shows no change in the Bush job rating over the last week:

The March 13-16 Gallup Poll pegs his approval at 37%. This rating is virtually unchanged from the 36% measured over the March 10-12 weekend, and not statistically different from two February polls prior to that.

In general, it’s clear that the public’s assessment of Bush’s job performance has not undergone a dramatic free fall, as some may think. Gallup’s regular assessment of president job approval ratings allows us to determine that Bush’s ratings have remained remarkably constant for significant periods. The pattern of late has been marked by periods with virtually identical ratings, followed by small shifts and then another period of stability.

The Gallup report is free to all for today.  Read it all.

Mark Blumenthal

Mark Blumenthal is the principal at MysteryPollster, LLC. With decades of experience in polling using traditional and innovative online methods, he is uniquely positioned to advise survey researchers, progressive organizations and candidates and the public at-large on how to adapt to polling’s ongoing reinvention. He was previously head of election polling at SurveyMonkey, senior polling editor for The Huffington Post, co-founder of Pollster.com and a long-time campaign consultant who conducted and analyzed political polls and focus groups for Democratic party candidates.