More Bush Job Rating Polls

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Just have time to post links to a few new surveys that included the Bush job rating that I had not seen last week or that have been released since.  These results are consistent with those summarized here last week.  I see not lasting or statistically significant change in Bush’s overall job rating since early December:

  • SurveyUSA has ust posted Bush job rating results from a new round of automated surveys conducted in all of the 50 states.  It includes a combined weighted national average that shows 41% approve and 56% disapprove of his job performance.    The results were one point different in each direction in December:  40% approve, 57% disapprove.
  • AP-IPSOS released results last week from a survey conducted January 3-5.  It showed the Bush job rating at 40% approve, 59% disapprove; down two points from their last survey in early December (42% approve, 57% disapprove). 
  • Harris Interactive released results from a telephone survey conducted January 6-9 that shows 43% rating Bush’s performance as excellent or good, 56% as "only fair or poor."  That marks a significant increase since their last survey in November, when 34% were positive and 65% negative.  Unlike the other surveys we have been discussing, Harris did not poll on Bush in December. 
  • Also, a Zogby poll conducted Jan 9-12 shows Bush’s job rating at 39% excellent or good, 60% fair or poor.   Zogby’s last telephone poll, conducted December 6-8, showed a slightly lower approval rating (38% excellent/good, 62% fair/poor). 
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.