President Bush's Job Performance
Approve 71%
Disapprove 25
Gallup Poll recorded a 24-point surge in the percentage of Americans saying they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, and a 13-point rise in public approval for the way Bush is handling his job.
Who is Rallying?
For the most part it is Democrats and independents who have become more positive about Bush and the state of the nation since the commencement of war with Iraq, and who are most responsible for driving these ratings up. Republicans were already highly positive about the president and the position of the country prior to the start of war.
This pattern is seen most clearly in ratings of President Bush. In Gallup's last poll before the start of hostilities with Iraq, 92% of Republicans, compared with 50% of independents and only 31% of Democrats, approved of the job Bush was doing as president. In the first poll conducted during the Iraq war (fielded March 22-23) Republican approval had increased only two points to 94%, but approval among independents rose 19 points to 69%, and rose 17 points to 48% among Democrats. As a result, Bush's overall job rating improved 13 points, going from 58% before the war, to 71% immediately after its start.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030325.asp
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"This is the business we've chosen." - Hyman Roth
Approve 71%
Disapprove 25
Gallup Poll recorded a 24-point surge in the percentage of Americans saying they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, and a 13-point rise in public approval for the way Bush is handling his job.
Who is Rallying?
For the most part it is Democrats and independents who have become more positive about Bush and the state of the nation since the commencement of war with Iraq, and who are most responsible for driving these ratings up. Republicans were already highly positive about the president and the position of the country prior to the start of war.
This pattern is seen most clearly in ratings of President Bush. In Gallup's last poll before the start of hostilities with Iraq, 92% of Republicans, compared with 50% of independents and only 31% of Democrats, approved of the job Bush was doing as president. In the first poll conducted during the Iraq war (fielded March 22-23) Republican approval had increased only two points to 94%, but approval among independents rose 19 points to 69%, and rose 17 points to 48% among Democrats. As a result, Bush's overall job rating improved 13 points, going from 58% before the war, to 71% immediately after its start.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030325.asp
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"This is the business we've chosen." - Hyman Roth
