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Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:44 PM
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Bush approval rating rises
Bush approval rating rises

President Bush's approval rating -- which had declined in recent weeks -- moved back up, primarily due to big gains among men and among high-income Americans, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/

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- An article for those who think the corporate media is going to abandon this corrupt president* before the 2004 elections.
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:45 PM
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1. did "bush's approval rating plummets" ever make the cnn top story?
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onebigbadwulf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:47 PM
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2. Sadly no
They're too objective unfortunately.

God, where is our liberal hero network????!!!!
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Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:47 PM
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3. Nah...that's not how it works...
...only the 'good' stories reach the top.

- This story is a reminder that the American media will continue to cover for Bush's* every failure and scandal.
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alcuno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:55 PM
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6. I found a Time/CNN poll from September 3-4, 2003
29% said they would definitely vote for * and 41% said they definitely would not. I never heard CNN say a word about that poll; one of their own.

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critical_thinker2 Donating Member (33 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:55 PM
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7. Actually yes..
they along with everyone else were pounding on it..but they always couched it by saying this was normal.

The republicans called Clinton the teflon president, he had nothing on President Bush.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:50 PM
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4. Translation: "We FINALLY figured out how to phrase the...
questions and apply the right "correction" factors to get the result we wanted. Phew, we were worried for a while."
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:53 PM
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5. Sounds like maybe
Edited on Mon Oct-13-03 07:54 PM by Yupster
because the stock market? since it's men and wealthy people.
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Cat M. Donating Member (62 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:56 PM
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8. Maybe It Didn't Rise at All?
Edited on Mon Oct-13-03 07:57 PM by Cat M.
The approval rating is 55 percent up from 50 percent, but the margin of error is plus or minus 3%.

Maybe it's really 52 and maybe the previous poll, which had him at 50 percent with the same error rate was also 52?

I don't see how they can consider that a dramatic shift up when the margin of error indicates it might not be a shift at all.

Considering his approval rating went down on how he's handling the economy and down on approval of him as a person and his disapproval rate went up on his handling of foreign affairs and Iraq and the number of people who "definitely would vote for him" dropped, it doesn't make sense that his overall approval rating would take a big jump.

There's some kind of anomaly with that poll.

Maybe some republicans decided to lie and say they were democrats to make it look like Bush had more support from democrats? Who can say.
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Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 08:00 PM
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9. Most people only read the headlines...
...so it doesn't matter what the polls REALLY mean.
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kaitykaity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 08:00 PM
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10. Locking. Dupe.
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Noordam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 08:04 PM
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11. Well they played with the Stats
The poll was based on interviews with 1,004 adult Americans, including 870 registered voters and 456 registered Democrats, and was conducted by telephone between October 10, 2003 and October 12, 2003.

The poll has a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. That margin is slightly higher for subset groups within the poll.

THEY ARE LOOKING FOR DEMOCRATS AND REPUGS.

If you subtract 456 Democrats from 1004 you get 548. Then div 548 by 1004 and you get 54.5%

DUH if you want Bush to have a 60% rating limit your Democrats to
401.







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