More Bush Job Rating Polls

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).