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Zen Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:51 PM
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CNN's Republican-skewed poll has Bush speech at 46% positive
CNN polled 50% Republicans for this poll.

CNN) -- A poll of Americans who watched President Bush's Iraq speech Tuesday night showed that 46 percent had a "very positive" reaction to what they heard.

That compares to 67 percent of poll respondents who answered the same way to the president's "mission accomplished" speech May 1, 2003 -- two months after the war began.

The poll sample was 50 percent Republican, 23 percent Democratic and 27 percent independent, and the margin of error was plus or minus 6 percentage points.

The percentage of those with a "very positive" reaction also was down from the 60 percent expressing the same sentiment after Bush's State of the Union speech in February.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/28/poll.bush.speech.iraq/index.html
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BillZBubb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:55 PM
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1. What a crock!
Why even bother polling if you include 50% Repugs. Just say 50% thought it was great and let it go at that. No muss, no fuss.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:58 PM
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6. They said they actually had 1000 people who said they would watch.
They talked to them prior to the speech but when they called them after the speech, only 1/3 of the people who SAID THEY WOULD WATCH, actually DID WATCH. That is why the numbers were so screwed up.
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:56 PM
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2. I think they are actually terrible numbers considering 50% of
respondents were Republicans.

Bill Schneider said the numbers are actually lower then the approval numbers for a standard State of the Union.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:56 PM
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3. Kind Of Surprising They Admit It (nt)
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:57 PM
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4. So many people who still back Bush liked it.
What a victory for Commander Cuckoopants.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 10:58 PM
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5. Not surprised at all
They got to of course. So they can give dear Bushie his nice raitings even though we all know nobody gives a damn.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:02 PM
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7. They were honest on air re. this poll -- said many more Repubs watched...
so numbers were skewed. But still, only 46% positive....
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Zen Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:02 PM
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8. IMO, this looks real bad for Bush.
If 46% percent like it -- and 50% were Republicans, that means that ALL the independents and Democrats didn't like it -- and Bush didn't get all the Republicans.

I think he's toast -- and he knows it.

The tepid reception from the military was very telling.
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tritsofme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:05 PM
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9. Not uncommon for a flash poll
It is more likely that Republicans will be watching a Republican president's speech.

What's telling is given the sample's tilt toward Republicans how bad of a reaction he got.
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:13 PM
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10. Why didn't they have a SOMEWHAT NEGATIVE category...?
Two positive choices and ONE negative choice?

Bullshit poll
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:28 PM
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11. Also on CNN tonight: 45% approval rating for *
And Nixon was the only president in the first year of his second term to be lower, at 44%, and that was at the height of the Watergate scandal!!
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Julius Civitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:32 PM
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12. WTF??? Why do they SKEW the poll for the Repugs?
I don't understand! How can this be allowed? It's borderline fraud, if you ask me.

They are out-foxing Fox News!

:argh:
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:48 PM
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13. 50% Repugs and not all of them liked it? Thats a bad sign.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:59 PM
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14. Utter LIES...their ON-LINE poll is so bad that they keep re-setting it!
Edited on Wed Jun-29-05 12:04 AM by dicksteele
Another thread here is linked to the cnn.com poll...
But it's hard to vote because CNN has reset it to ZERO several times already.

Try it yourself:
(down on the right side)http://www.cnn.com/

One DUer who actually saw results reported it at 78% negative...

And now their "Biased-from-the-start" poll is only 43% positive? ROFL!!!

Friends: B*sh is TOAST! Stick a fork in his ass, cuz he's DONE!

Worst...Resident...ever...

(edited to add link)
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