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MoonAndSun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 10:08 AM
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Poll: View of Bush Performance Fading
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snip> WASHINGTON - The public's view of President Bush (news - web sites)'s job performance has dropped in a number of areas, although he remains personally popular, according to a poll out Monday.


Bush's overall job approval was at 50 percent in the CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll, with 47 percent disapproving of his job performance. His approval has ranged from 50 percent to the mid 50s, depending on the poll. An ABC News-Washington Post poll released Monday placed his job approval at 57 percent with 39 percent disapproving.


When asked if they approve of him personally, two-thirds said they approve, about the same level of popularity he had early in his term.






they may like him personally, (gag) but they will not vote for him again, I hope!

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Democrats unite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 10:12 AM
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1. Today is going to be a good news day for us.
Which means a bad day for Bush! Should I be sadened by this? NOT!!!
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 11:47 AM
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6. What else in happening today?
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 03:40 PM
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14. need a Bin-Laden tape to surface
we had a "terra-lert" earlier this month with the cargo planes,
Saddam tape surfaced this weekend...

neither of these did much for scaring the polls...soooo next is a Bin-Laden tape or an even bigger terra-lert... can you say ORANGE ALERT by Thanksgiving?
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Neutrino Donating Member (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 10:14 AM
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2. The spin has spun, and the grass has riz--

I wonder where our new President is?
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Vikingking66 Donating Member (402 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 10:15 AM
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3. For god's sake we need to block the medicare
"Eight in 10 said they would be angry or upset if Congress should adjourn this year without passing a prescription drug plan for older Americans. Of those people who would be upset, they said they would blame Republicans by a 2-1 margin. "
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 10:15 AM
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4. They'd Like To Have A Beer With Him, Cuz He'd Be Fun To Laugh At
When he's drunk. But he SUCKS at the president pretender thing.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!! LOSER!
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 11:45 AM
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5. Notice the positive spin for Bush
Edited on Tue Nov-18-03 11:45 AM by lancdem
"His approval ranges from 50 percent to the mid-50s depending on the poll." Um, no, all the polls taken in November, with the exception of the ABC poll which Josh Marshall says has to be considered an aberration, have Bush from 48 to 52 percent. Why are they lying about his numbers?
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 11:50 AM
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7. The ABC/Washington Post Poll is the Whore Poll of the Week
Edited on Tue Nov-18-03 11:51 AM by Beetwasher
It's like every polling cycle they corrupt one organization to have some outlandish, contradictory polling information.

I'm mean yeesh! Every poll has him going down to low 50's/High 40's but the ABC poll has him bumping up 1 pt. to 57%! ABC is a good 6-10 pt's HIGHER than every single other poll including Gallup! WTF are they doing over there?
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 11:55 AM
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8. I don't know what their problem is. I think they used to be reputable
Here's what Josh Marshall says:
"The new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows President Bush with a substantially higher approval rating than all the recent polls - namely, at 57% approval and 39% disapproval. That contrasts with the slightly more recent Gallup/CNN/USAToday poll which showed him at 50% approve and 47% disapprove.
Last week CBS had him at 49% and NBC had him at 51%.
For the moment the new WaPo/ABC poll definitely looks like an outlier."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com

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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 11:56 AM
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9. Au Contraire, Beetwasher
Don't you think that, in every cycle, one media organization takes its turn at Whoring For bu$h? This time it was ABC's turn.

If we were to look back six months, we should be able to predict which network/newspaper alliance will have Chimpy pumped up during the next cycle.

Cynically Yours,
:evilgrin:
dbt
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Beetwasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 12:00 PM
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10. Yeah, I Wonder
Last cycle it was Gallup's turn. I wrote this post about it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=534560
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 12:11 PM
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11. ABC/WP is almost always sycophantic.
PollKatz ranks the pollsters' biases here - http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/files/bushindexprobushtable.htm

FOX 9.345
ABC-POST 7.197
PEW 6.035
GALLUP 4.981
NEWSWEEK 4.393
CBS-NYT 2.097
NBC-WSJ 1.173
CNN-TIME 0.975
IPSOS-REID 0.000
HARRIS (0.131)
IBD-CSM (2.032)
ARG (4.188)
ZOGBY (8.889)

Fox, ABC, and Pew are clearly driven by reichbot spin.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 12:41 PM
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12. "Everybody likes a drunk, just not at the wheel."
Useful quote I picked up from the Yahoo discussion board on this article.
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MiddleRiverRefugee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 03:42 PM
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15. "The wheel has turned. It's time for him to go."
From ol' Dic Cheney himself, at the 2000 convention.
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ablbodyed Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 03:20 PM
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13. But how 50% STILL can approve of this guy....
is demoralizing. What do these sheeple see that we don't. Or more honestly, what so These sheeple NOT SEE THAT WE DO?
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wabeewoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 03:50 PM
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16. This is the part I just can't believe...
Headline after headline of bad ideas and bad news from bush and cronies and STILL 50% like him. I just don't get it....
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Betty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 09:36 PM
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17. I don't understand it either
they LIKE him as a person???? He is clearly an arrogant ashole who doesn't give a shit about anyone but his own kind... rich plundering "business" types.
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