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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 03:52 PM
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How can Bush still have 30-35% approval rates?
I understand ppl ignoring foreign affairs
but how can they ignore inflation and the economy?
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 03:53 PM
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1. Because 30%-35% of Americans are idiots n/t
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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 03:56 PM
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5. in 3 years no one will admit that they were a Bush supporter
right now, some people are still proud Bush supporters and others are regretful Bush supporters.
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:11 PM
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18. Ha! I've got a sister like that.
We got into a heated argument prior to the 2004 elections about Mr. Wonderful and now? She not only never voted for *, but she's never voted Republic or even said anything nice about them.

It's not lying, they're delusional.
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 05:10 PM
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30. IDK
Every Bush supporter I know is now very silent on the subject of him. They're too busy trying to create rationals for why they won't vote Democrat in the next election. Most Bush stickers disappeared about 1-2 years ago.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:02 PM
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12. With those numbers Bush is clearly losing some of the idiots
A quick consideration of television programming suggests far more than 35% of the nation is composed of idiots.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 06:01 PM
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33. Ghost Hunters.
Monster Hunters.
Prophecies of Nostradamus.
Prison Shows.
Cop Shows.

Leading the way in the dumbing down of America.

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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:37 PM
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24. Well, I know for sure that half of them
are below average.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 03:54 PM
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2. They like death and suffering. They hate people.
They're Republicans.
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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 03:54 PM
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3. Are there really that many oil execs out there?
How is it possible that 30-35% of every poll is from the board of Halliburton? =)
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 03:55 PM
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4. There are a number of humans who, like my father,
would continue driving the wrong way down a one way street rather than admit they were wrong.
These people can attain high positions when their opposition break down into squabbling groups. Divide and conquer.
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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 03:57 PM
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6. are they like that in personal life as well?
or just related to their politicians of choice
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 10:25 PM
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35. My father was when he was questioned.
he used to call it standing up for himself. I called him pig headed.
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jaksavage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 03:58 PM
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7. I think that is
the racist ratio of the USA. one in three.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 03:58 PM
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8. Here's how:
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:00 PM
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9. half of all people are below average
35% of them are WAY below average
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:02 PM
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11. Exactly.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:45 PM
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27. You mean the median
What you say is only the case if the distribution is sharply bimodal.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 05:07 PM
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29. or perhaps dully
bimodal
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 05:44 PM
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32. To be bimodal, it needs to be both!
:)
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lurky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:01 PM
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10. They still control a vast propagands apparatus.
Fox news, AM radio, WSJ, Washington Times, NY Sun, NY Post, and many other outlets that are less overtly partisan. If people depend on these media for news, they live in an alternate universe where Bush is a god among men, petroleum is a clean, limitless resource, WMDs were found in an ice cream truck in Baghdad, and who knows what other nonsense.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:04 PM
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13. Blind loyalty often, and in this case certainly, indicates sheer stupiidiy.
"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby." - H.L. Mencken
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:06 PM
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14. You are forgetting where those numbers come from.
Lots of the polling is done by companies owned by parent corporations with an interest in boosting the GOP.

Tweaking the numbers a bit is certainly not out of the question.

Look at the primary polls - is there much doubt some numbers are being fudged?
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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:09 PM
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16. but the university polls have similar numbers
while I agree ownership of polling companies could play a part, I stupidly expect the Marist and/or Quinnipiac polls not to have the same corporate control but I didn't check whose funding those polls
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ordinaryaveragegirl Donating Member (853 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:07 PM
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15. They must have skewed the numbers somewhere...
I don't know of a soul who can stand him. Did Billo, Coultergeist and Vader participate in said poll? :shrug:
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:10 PM
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17. The last numbers I saw
had him at 21 to 23 percent favorable, that I can believe.
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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:11 PM
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19. polling report Bush job approval
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:16 PM
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20. "You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time…"
"...and those are the ones you want to concentrate on". G.W.Bush**
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 11:43 AM
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36. Is that a real quote?
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:20 PM
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21. Bush's support *should* only be something like 12%.
And that consists of radio talk show hosts, the Fox News staff, and Freepers.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:20 PM
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22. 80% of Republicans in Iowa
still approve of what ever it is he does
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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:25 PM
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23. is part of his approval, that they are measuring him against
their view of him as a good beer drinking buddy?
I've heard people say, he's doing the best he can do and he's had a lot to deal with

I mean I do have lower expectations from a beer buddy than from the President of the USA.
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Elspeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:39 PM
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25. The same way my mother will be 29 again this year on her birthday
You think the media isn't lying?
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:44 PM
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26. Well perhaps the Republicans owning the majotity of M$M play into it?
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 04:46 PM
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28. Two ways
1. Some number of people, but less than 30-35%, really are that dumb.

2. The polls are conducted and computed and "adjusted" by the same people who changed the numbers in the middle of the night on election night 2004.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 05:21 PM
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31. Why are there instructions on shampoo and toothpaste?
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 06:02 PM
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34. he still hates the gays and the blacks and the feminists, right? there is your 35%
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Usrename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 09:38 PM
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37. Because the Democrats keep covering up his criminal conduct?
Just sayin'. :shrug:
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 09:39 PM
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38. And whose lies are you listening to anyway?
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