Bush Approval Rating Rises to 40% From 38%, Newsweek Pol

Kerry Dooley Young

Bush Approval Rating Rises to 40% From 38%, Newsweek Poll

Sun Oct 2, 2005 02:03

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Bush Approval Rating Rises to 40% From 38%, Newsweek Poll Finds

Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's approval rating rose from the lowest of his presidency, a survey released by Newsweek magazine showed today.

Bush's approval rating rose to 40 percent from 38 percent in the days after Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 29. The survey, conducted Sept. 29 and 30, found 53 percent of participants disapproved of Bush's job performance, Newsweek said in an e-mailed statement. The results of its poll will appear in the Oct. 10 issue of the magazine.

Bush's response to Hurricane Rita, which struck the Gulf Coast on Sept. 24, helped his job approval rating rebound from a record low in another poll. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Sept. 29 found public approval increased to 45 percent in the poll conducted Sept. 26-28 from 40 percent in a Sept. 16-18 poll.

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown, resigned Sept. 12 after widespread criticism of the federal government's response to Katrina, which devastated parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana and led to more than 1,000 deaths.

As Rita approached the Texas-Louisiana border, Bush monitored federal, state and local preparations from U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He made a trip to the region for talks with local authorities on Sept. 27, making stops in the two states.

Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted the Newsweek poll, interviewing 1,004 adults aged 18 and older. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

To contact the reporters on this story:
Kerry Dooley Young in Washington kdooley@bloomberg.net

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