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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:43 AM
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MSNBC: Gallop Poll - Bush approval lowest of presidency...
45%. It was 52% just last week. They theorized it was because of the Schiavo affair or his handling of it. Most of the loss in his approval was from men and conservatives. Just a temporary loss of popularity?
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:43 AM
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1. Actually, since Stupidhead doesn't have to run again
Who cares what the polls say?
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gordianot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:46 AM
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3. I'm not convinced we have seen the last of this demagogue.
After 2008
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:54 AM
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10. Guilt by association.
If Bush crashes and burns, our chances in 2006 & 2008 vastly improve.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:04 AM
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11. True enough
I was thinking mostly about Stupidhead's attitude toward the polls. The national GOP might want to take a good look at their party's standard bearer and consider whether a lame duck, overrich, pampered, neverwas is really the person they want out front on their issues, since he doesn't have to give a rip whether his efforts show results or not.
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:10 AM
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15. Hopefully, their stubbornness will be their undoing.
There seems to be a deep-seated need in the Republican Party to back Bush regardless of his antics and failures. Let's hope he drags them down with him.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:43 AM
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19. diddo!!!
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:44 AM
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2. yay! Who wants to wager it will go MUCH lower before he's done?
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:34 PM
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24. One can only hope, spooked, one can only hope. n/t
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:47 AM
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4. It isn't that he's stupid or immature. He's lazy and he can't hide it. n/t
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:48 AM
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5. I think some of it - perhaps most of it - has to do with SS.
The negative reaction to his SS plans may be having a bigger effect than the Schiavo fiasco.

If it's mostly about Schiavo, it's probably a temporary decline. Let's hope that it's not.
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:50 AM
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6. If this were a rational world
he wouldn't even be in double digits
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:52 AM
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7. It's because the conservative men can't afford gas for their Hummers.
They're finally seeing what we've been telling them all along.
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:53 AM
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9. If they can afford Hummers, they're probably not...
terribly worried about the price of gas.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:15 AM
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16. 'Afford' a Hummer and 'finance' a Hummer are 2 different things ...
n/t
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:34 AM
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17. $1,000 a month is $1,000 a month.
If they can handle a grand a month for one vehicle, the fluctuation in gas prices isn't likely that much of a concern.

It just means that they'll have to use a little more of that gift that keeps on giving - Bush's tax cuts to the rich - to pay for gas.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:53 AM
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22. Nevermind ...
You're not following my thought process ...


:hi:
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:33 PM
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23. No, I am. I just have a different opinion.
The average household income of Hummer owners is nearly $200,000 a year. About half are self-employed, which means that they've been able to personally deduct the entire cost of the vehicle (until this year's tax change). So, the increase in gas prices has little effect on them. It's certainly not going to cause them to change their minds about Bush Co.
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rniel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 10:53 AM
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8. It's got me hoping
This would hurt Jeb Bush's chances of running. I never want another bush in the white house again.
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carnie_sf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:36 AM
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18. I wish
we could keep all Bushes out of politics forever.
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cindyw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:05 AM
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12. When Gallup has Bush at 45%, it's more like 39%. nt
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Darkhawk32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:46 AM
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20. I'd like to see the weighting on that poll....
Gallup has a nasty habit of conveniently over-weighting Republicans when it is neccessary for Bush to look good.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:07 AM
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13. Time to invade another country
Since we are low on troops, maybe we need to re-take Grenada. We could use the boy scouts
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:38 PM
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26. Okay, seriously? After reading that even Gallup
is reporting a drop, I'm going to stock up on water, Rx refills and gas today. Just as a precaution. I was going to finish my monthly financial stuff and go sock-shopping, but this is really starting to freak me out. There's just too much risk in his numbers declining like this. I still feel much more frightened by this than encouraged.
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:08 AM
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14. I wonder if he cares
He does whatever he wants, I really don't think he gives a damn about anything other than his power to manipulate the government
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:47 AM
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21. You're probably right about Shrub not caring, but other Pub
politicians do care! They have to run for re-election, and as long as their fearless leader's poll #'s were high, it was in THEIR best interest to be right at his side. When he falls, they will have to stand alone and let him go, or fall with him.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:35 PM
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25. lots of conservatives who are not sheep or religious nuts
The TRUE conservatives who know what they stand for are probably pissed about Bush interfering with a STATE ISSUE and are pissed about Bush interfering in someones PERSONAL BUSINESS. These are 2 conservative no-nos. At least for true conservatives - what few there are left.
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:01 PM
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27. War, recession, scandals, and gay whores can't get people to hate Bush.
I takes a brain dead woman from Florida to finally get people to hate Bush.

Only in America. . .
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European Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:27 PM
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28. Its 5 months too late....
but the public finally is coming around. They saw through the pukey pundits cheerleading about democracy in the mid -east. They rejected chimp's SS sham. And they clearly could see that Congress had no business in Schiavo case. Maybe there still is hope.
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cally Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:54 PM
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29. Some of his RW agenda maybe stopped with these poll
numbers. It's not too late to stop most of his evil.
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