HOT OFF THE PRESS: THE NEW BUSH 50 STATE APPROVAL POLLS

forever. No nuclear weapons, though.

That's the best deal they're ever gonna get.

Sorry, Helderheid.

Nor in Idaho, which is 3rd. The more populous states seem to be in the middle or toward the bottom of the list (e.g. NY at #49).

I'm so impressed by RI at #50 (tied for #49, but with more disapproval). I have spent several vacations on the RI coast and touring the Newport mansions. Maybe it's time to do it again. I know I'll be among friends. Rhode Island rocks!

a big thank you, we are small, but we know a BS'er when we see them.

I'm in Wyoming, and I wish I would get polled. I think in my part of the state around 80% voted for B---. People around here are clueless. They're so excited that Cheney is from here that they can't think of anything else. My husband met a man the other day who was very proud that he met Cheney a couple years ago. He said something like, "You know, he's obviously not real comfortable with all that money and power. All he really wanted to talk about was hunting. He's just a regular guy." Right.

:hi:

Wyoming is so beautiful, I think most people just focus on their lives there, and just try
to think comforting thoughts about the world outside.

EOM

South!

and five others he is under 33%--pretty pathetic.

Problem solved.

Big Water, Utah: laid-back, gay mayor, polygamists
http://www.queerday.com/2004/sep/20/big_water_utah_laidback_gay_mayor_polygamists.html

:hi:
:nuke:

:patriot:

He has been speaking out against the current mis-administration for years on his blog.

Mind if we return him in "severely damaged" condition?

about that bald asshole that runs the intelligence committee?

The problem is the bias in the media. I had no idea, until I found it on the internet, that Senator Chuck Hagel and the states largest paper the Omaha World Herald, were in the voting machine business together.

The local media only has glowing stories about ES&S.

If there was honest journalism, his numbers would no doubt be lower.

Rather than radio stations like "Air America" preaching to the choir, this is the type of place they need to be heard.

Those are some stinky numbers. Peeee-Youuuu !!
No politician in their right mind is gonna
want to be within 500 miles of Bush
for fear of getting some of that radioactive
SLUDGE on themselves. Look for wholesale
defections coming soon to a town near you.

That's pretty good.

Only 16% of Jews vote Republican.
22% of gay people voted for Bush in 2004.
And 36% of Americans believe in Alien Abduction.

I bet people in mega-Bush-lovin' states like Utah & Nebraska believe in alien abduction at more than a 36% rate!

The only people I know personally who believe in alien abduction are all Republicans and, unfortunately, relatives of mine.

He has four states left and a tie.
1 Utah Bush 55% 40% 15% UT KSL-TV
2 Wyoming Bush 54% 44% 10% WY
3 Idaho Bush 53% 43% 10% ID
4 Nebraska Bush 51% 45% 6% NE
5 Oklahoma Bush 48% 48% 0% OK

Only 4 states approve. WTF is the matter with you people?

when his disapproval rating has reached 40 percent in Utah, you know the wheels are coming off.

Some people just have to be left behind.

But it should give pause to those who say that the South is Baby's Bush's stronghold.

utah, wyoming and idaho.

pretty much the whole country has started realizing bush is nothing more than an empty suit....a puppet for big oil and the military industrial complex.

if this survey is accurate, even texas is down to a 45% approval rating for him. that's saying something because texas was about 66% bushbots over the last 5 years or so.

:hi:
:cry:

....it's the other 16 people that live there that i have a problem with. ;)

So many IDIOTS!

election was 65%

...as the "Axis of Idiocy?" :spank:

:rofl: I like the slogan.

change Wyoming to blue. I'll be moving there next week!

When I was up there in February, I saw a car with the bumper stickers "Impeach Bush" and "Keep Your Rosaries Out of My Ovaries" and there were no bullet holes in it or anything. I also already know at least five very liberal Democrats in WY. Please remember, when these polls come out in the future, I'll be up there working my ass off to help build the local Democratic Party.

Dale Groutage Dem WY for US Senate!

makes any sense.

purty map a few months ago and only UT, WY, and ID were the least bit pink.
So what's the matter with NE? Why the recidivism?

Which is not to say that they would vote for some 'degenerate immoral democrat'. Most of bush's support comes from people with three kids living on 20K/yr who don't want their kids to hear any naughty words or see any breasts at half time of the Super Bowl, nevermind the fact that they are already screwing the football team at age 14. Yes, I live in the 4th stupidest state.

:party: :toast:

:beer: :beer:

DemEx

If only a small percentage more of those Ohio voters now disapproving of Bush had had the same opinion in November of 2004, we'd have President Kerry, and not Justices Alito and Roberts.

What might have been...but, now, it's too late. :cry:

it all hinges on Ohio. Come next election, Ohio is certainly blue. We've got the WH in 2007.

The next presidential election is November 2008. And Bush won't be running. Who knows whether those negative approval ratings will stick to John "See, I'm an iconoclastic centrist even if I've been kissing Rev. Falwell's ass for the past year" McCain or whoever gets the Repug nomination that year?

Loose lips sink ships.

My mother says she can't comprehend how her county could have gone "Red"... she just doesn't get it at all.

Well after reading the Conyers Report : "What Went Wrong In Ohio" it's a little easier to understand.

And after 2004? The State GOP basically outlawed recounts (to hard to fix.)

Ohio's elections are sham, Flordia's too. If someone doesn't set a trap for them in 2008 I fear it's all over for American Democracy.

but probably not in the way he intended.

at one point, they were 60% in favor of Bush.

Not one. All Southern bashers at DU, remember that!

:hi:

50% here I doubt it'll happen...

I loved the state I live in even when it was overwhelmingly a Bush state and I love it even more now that more people disapprove than approve of him by almost 20 points.

my car was broken down and when I want to buy beer on Sunday.

I heard a funny story about some people whose bus broke down in eastern Utah outside
Cisco. It's a windy desolate place. They futzed around with it for three days, basically
getting nowhere. On the fourth day a guy came and knocked on the door. He said "You're
going to have to let us help you, or we'll have to kill you."

...Ohio is getting some sense.....FINALLY!:P

If they'd got that sense two years ago...

We may all be encouraged by these numbers, but they don't change the fact that we've got Bush as Commander-in-Chief until 1/20/2009. And the best we can hope for is enough of a win this November to have a chance to slow down his agenda. There's nothing, nothing we can do to stop or overturn it. :-(

Which is why seeing all the red states with negative approval ratings doesn't excite me - it only pisses me off that they came to their senses too late to change anything. :grr:

If we can get the truth about 9/11 out they'll be howling for Cheney's head even in
Wyoming! Why do you think they're all freaking out--Cheney shooting lawyers, Scalia
flipping people off.

By November it might be that Republicans will be campaigning on the impeachment
platform.

Haul out every statement of support the Gooper's made on behalf of Chimpy, every grip-and-grin photo-op taken with the BFEE members, and start nailin' 'em up.

We got rid of one corrupt gop politician named George earlier this week. Now that the warm ups done it's time to go after the chimp.

Ryan going to jail. 2 out of 3 disapproval. This means even downstaters have to be shifting positions. Fitz did good here. Let's see if he can stay on a roll.
The Professor

...

:woohoo:

edit: Fixed a rather unfortunate typo.

still love bush no matter what

As far as I know, Vermont and New Hampshire are something like 95% white, and those states certainly DON'T approve of Dumbya.

These high gas prices ought to fix that in a jiffy.

they will go down with the ship and their commander and thief, take U.S. and the world with them, just to follow this bumbling,stumbling nutty ass fruitcake!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

37 percent :wtf:

Can't believe it ...

This is GOOD NEWS!!!

on their cars here (North of Sacramento). Sad to say that some of Northern California is still quite conservative.

Orange Co. probably skewed the stats. The poor rich schmucks there drank too much of the kool-aid.

WHY DOES ANYONE STILL APPROVE OF HIM? Grrrrrrrrr.....

Junior stole two elections. How popular can he be?

Did Diebold voters vote in these polls?

Don't buy in. It's b#llsh!t.

:hi:

I want Dick DeVos tied to Mr. 32%.

Look at all these states Bush won in 2004 where he is now below 40% approval:

Ohio, Nevada, Iowa, New Mexico, Missouri, Colorado, Virgina, and Florida.

Good thing we know the elections in all these states were beyond suspicious, right?

for Carter in 1979 and Bush41 at certain points 1992, maybe even Reagan at the depths of the early 80s recession, but that doesn't make their elections invalid.

To make that jump with Bush you have to ignore previously higher poll numbers from the same poll, but I guess some people are fine with that.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollTrack.aspx?g=89ea3c5e-2be0-45d6-a1fa-e03c27ae8256

Ohio moves up and down in a range from 57% to 64% disapproval over the year from May '05 to April '06, but trending upward.

http://www.surveyusa.com/2004_Elections/OH041101pressen.pdf

You can't disregard a poll when you dislike the data and embrace it when you like its results.

:toast:

Given the number of nuts here, I don't think it'll get below 30%.

i don't care if we end up with the Dick C. . . his ticker may not stand the tension from the impeachment proceedings anyway, and Hastert will fuddle and be inept waddling like a lame duck sausage for what little time left...

i just want some sanity to return to this fair country for a while. Then let it rip for 06/08...

sigh, #13 Rec.
dp

or phone service.. that cannot be indicative.. nor can MS. If it is.. for fucking shame on those heartless bastards selling out their own communities.

Wow, that is amazing!

These numbers are wonderful.

I love seeing the really low numbers--in the 20's and 30's. That just makes my heart
go pitter patter.

I love the really low numbers in my state...34 percent, I think. Best of luck to neocon Jim Nussle---as he attempts to win the governor race in our state. He's had his head up Junior's ass for a while now. HA!

I've been following Survey USA's polls for some months now, and it's fascinating to see the drop-off in support. Check some of the previous months' numbers. Worse and worse and worse and WORKS FOR ME!

The one state Bush** screwed the worst is tied for No. 8?!

Or could it be that so many Katrina and Rita evacuees are STILL out of state EIGHT MONTHS LATER that the results were skewed?!

Perhaps we can lower the deficit by selling "moron states" :D

Okay, here's a little something you can try at home. Open these two pages at the same time and compare the tables. Be sure to read the fine print on the second page.

The abovementioned latest SurveyUSA poll

Average IQ, by state, color coded for Bush or Kerry in 2004

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Least Bush-Hating states: UT, WY, ID, NE, OK, AK, KS, AL, LA, TX

Stupidest states: MS, UT, ID, WY, SC, SD, OK, MT, LA, AL, TX

_____________________

Seething with rage states: RI, NY, MA, VT, DE, CT, NJ, IL, PA, CA

Smartest states: CT, MA, NJ, NY, RI, HI, MD, NH, IL, DE

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Now we see what it takes to be a Bush believer. They have to be fucking idiots.

Disclaimer: I don't like or trust IQ statistics in general, and neither should you. In fact, if you read the fine print on the IQ page you'll see that the list itself was disputed and has since been retracted by The Economist. Nevertheless, it's fun to paint your opposition as stupid, with charts and colors and shit. Stupid people don't read disclaimers anyway.

as seething with rage, and smartest state. Yea, RI!!!!

Funny thing is my neighbors still have their Bush Cheney stickers on their cars. Go figure.

the Bush junta now seems "too late" and which did not seem to be reflected in the voting in Ohio and other states in 2004, I have a question:

How do you know how any state voted? Who are you relying on for that information? What is your level of confidence in vote tabulation with "trade secret," proprietary programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, and employed with virtually no audit/recount controls?

These polls on disapproval of Bush indicate a level of discontent in the country that could conceivably beat the 5% to 10% "thumb on the scales" that I believe Diebold and ES&S have been giving to Bushites and other warmongers. That is very good news, indeed. But, a) I think it would be wise to presume NOTHING, as to this "blue state"/"red state" business, from a nearly completely non-transparent election system controlled by Bushite corporations; and b) we should include the American people in a conscious effort to overwhelm the machine advantage to Bushites with massive voter turnout, for instance, with bumper stickers like, "Help Us Beat the Machines--VOTE!".

As to the latter, people have been feeling demoralized, depressed, and disempowered. They NEED TO KNOW about election system non-transparency and Bushite corporate control of vote tabulation. And they need to be re-engaged by a campaign to beat the odds. Otherwise many will say, "Why bother? It's all rigged." And what is the answer to THAT? A lie? It ISN'T rigged? You're going to tell them that Bushite corporations "counting" all the votes with "trade secret" programming is NOT riggable--and that Bushites are not going to USE that riggability, now that they have it?

People KNOW it, deep down--even if they don't have all the facts and details. They FEEL it. And their demoralization may take a stubborn turn. But give them a GAME, give them a chance, give them Seabiscuit odds, and clue them in that the machines CAN be beaten (*), and then we'll have an election. We need a 5% to 10% BIGGER turnout than is needed to win. Huge disapproval of Bush means that we can get it--but I believe we have to be honest with voters.

One other strategy: Urge voters to request absentee or other paper ballots, wherever that is possible. This will throw a big monkey wrench into the electronic riggability. It's not the ultimate answer (because all ballots end up computerized and "tabulated" by the secret code), but it IS a form of protest against "black box" voting--it may get so big that it becomes "news" in itself (the rebellion against the machines)--and of course it provides a real paper ballot for any requested recounts, and for monitoring results.

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*(The election theft industry cannot afford to be too obvious, or the fascists who control it will lose their new "trade secret" programming code advantage--by people rebelling, and demanding a return to paper ballots. Also, it appears to me that, in 2004, the electronic advantage to Bush and Bushites had to be pre-programmed, and was not so easy to change on election day. This may be why they risked the highly visible violations of the Voting Rights Act in Ohio--Kerry's win was overwhelming the pre-programmed advantage to Bush in other places as well as in the central tabulators in Ohio. (They WILL try that crap again--shorting black and other Democratic precincts on voting machines, messing with the voter registration rolls, etc.--but I think Democrats will be a lot more vigilant this time, on that kind of vote suppression.) Finally, they can't just manufacture an election--not yet anyway. The Diebold/ES&S advantage cannot replace enthusiasm, support, donations and big numbers of real votes. For the most part, all they can safely do is tweak close races--and maybe reverse a few not-close races where they have wholly corrupt election officials in charge, who will cover up a big election theft. For all of these reasons, I believe that big turnout can still beat the machines--and the more anti-war and populist/progressive the candidate is, the bigger the beating will be.)

but my own state's not too shabby either (Washington).

And not the kind the Minutemen are looking for.

yet again. Bush is toast here. Burnt toast.

I talked to ANYONE that approved of Junior Felon.

:toast:

/dyslexia

I lived there when he was governor and during the first year of his presidency, and I have to say that the tide must really be turning if his disapproval rating is higher than his approval rating even in Texas.

Keep going!

MY GOD i wish we could see that poll question!

I betcha a jillion bucks that gw's ratings would go to single digits on that question.

We all win.

...I'm gonna be pissed.

All you gotta do is show a picture of the incumbent GOP congresscritter along with its % agreement with various parts of the "bush agenda", and blammo -- instant 50%+ disapproval in all but 5 states.

And the other red states that are waking up too.

The question is, what the hell is in the water up in Utah? :crazy:

but, we are the smallest state with the biggest hearts.;-)

But let's give it a few more months.

What the hell is wrong with Utah? :shrug:

and lots of people have never bothered to see it. And those that have,
frequently don't like it.

I wish people would stop worrying about Utah.

Some people just have to be left behind and written off.

It's a racist state with a bunch of breeding, backassward religious wackjobs.

Utah is not part of my America.

:bounce:

Seems a bit on the low side...

Course the Rethugs are putting all of their eggs in the bash gays basket. Spending millions. The religious folks in the suburbs are off their fucking rockers on that issue.

edit: May their SUVs become breeding grounds for an infectious disease. Heh.

Look at Ohio. Near the bottom of the list. Yet went for Bush. Could be an obvious sign of the Diebold.

Looks like the GOP is in trouble. Looks like a job for SUPER ROVE. Looks like he won't be holding Bush's hand in the WH any longer. There's work to do, mud to fling, folks to swift boat. Look out DEMS.

Your bananas are turning black. ;(

Bush would get about 12 electoral votes if he was running now.

Your brother Dubya has screwed up any chance you had of ever being president.
:rofl:

Alaska is ACTUALLY getting into the correct column. BTW, I personally know 6 raving Dem's in Utah.

And it's pretty clear his presidency has been a failure. 4 states red, 46 blue. I can live with that!

If you look at the detail, there is NO region of the state where Bush has more approval than disapproval. He is doing OK only for white, male, college-educated, pro-choice church-goers. That represents about 19% of the Texas electorate. And this is reportedly his home state...