Chimpy Stuck At 30% in CBS News/NYT Poll; 33% Of Americans Don't Know Their Ass From Their Elbow

Chimpy is stuck at 30% job approval in the new CBS News/New York Times poll, but consider this stunning factoid:

Six in 10 Americans said in the poll that administration officials deliberately misled the public in making a case for the war; 33 percent of all Americans, including 40 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of Democrats, say Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

More from the poll after the break.

Only 5 percent of Americans — a strikingly low number for a sitting president’s handling of such a dominant issue — said they most trusted the Bush administration to resolve the war, the poll found. Asked to choose among the administration, Congress and military commanders, 21 percent said they would most trust Congress and 68 percent expressed most trust in military commanders.

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There is a deepening disillusion over the war’s course and its purpose, with the highest numbers of Americans, 62 percent, saying that the war was a mistake, and 59 percent saying that it was not worth the loss of American lives and other costs.

A majority, 53 percent, said they did not think that Iraq would ever become a stable democracy. Still more, 70 percent, said they did not think the Iraqi government, led by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, was doing all it could to bring stability.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans said the United States should reduce its troops in Iraq now or withdraw them. Asked if a timetable should be established for a 2008 withdrawal, a position many Democrats in Congress have advocated, 64 percent favored doing so.

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Six in 10 Americans said in the poll that administration officials deliberately misled the public in making a case for the war; 33 percent of all Americans, including 40 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of Democrats, say Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

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With barely 16 months to go in his presidency, Mr. Bush has a popularity rating that hovers nears its historic lows, with only 30 percent approving of his handling of the job and 64 percent disapproving. That level — essentially the reverse of his ratings when the war began in 2003 — has remained roughly the same since Mr. Bush announced in January the increase in American troops that became known as the surge.

Only 26 percent approved of Mr. Bush’s handling of Iraq and of foreign policy generally, while only one in four Americans think the country is generally on the right track.

Comments

[mdhatter]

When asked how they could believe it, 33% of Americans said "Baaa!", and asked that maps maps of The Iraq be made for US Americans so that we can build our future.

[Satan luvvs Repugs]

That 33% must be the ones that think that Saddam personally flew both of the planes that hit the WTC.

It must be true, the voices in their head told them so.

[TheaLogie]

I wonder what percentage of otherwise reasonably intelligent Americans believe that the Twin Towers were deliberately blown up by their own government? Strikes me that's as far-fetched as the Saddam thing. 9/11 so shook the population it seems that a number of them were willing to believe anything other than that a small group of committed radicals had the fortune and the opportunity to be able to pull off a spectacular act of terrorism.

Pity, in some ways, about the favorable opinion of the military commanders over that of Congress. They, after all, have to obey the orders of the commander-in-chief, so they're much less likely to be able to turn around the present state of affairs than Congress.

[mdhatter]

TheaLogie, i SO want to know the answer to that question.

Or, more importantly, what percentage of lefties would say it just to piss off the right-wingers...

as I suspect is happening with this poll.

[MapleStreet]

Rush Limbaugh knows what he is talking about.

The Moon landings were faked.

Championship Wrestling is genuine.

Let's face it - no one has ever gone broke by underestimating the intelligence of the populace. We are the best argument against democracy that there is.

[pansypoo]

well, georgie and the bushevics still lie, and that bell curve ya know.

[joejoejoe]

OT: Holden, you have to check out this Pony Petraeus chart.

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/3839/theplanreviseddw9.gif

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/hope_the_new_plan.php#comment-521785

[pansypoo]

i love the tardis.