Bush’s approval rating falls to new low

[Mongo the Mutterer]

Lets face it guys, if we had a choice in President, it would scare the bejeebers out of the Democrats and the Repubs.

We will, forever, be voting for the lesser of the two evils.

It was easy for me in 2004, since I despise John Kerry.

 

[GunGoBoom]

Whaddya expect. Bu$hCo blows hard. Needless war for Israel. Staggering deficit spending and unprecedented pork, saddling our kids with future debt. No finger lifted to stop illegal immigration. He's in favor of gun control. Remember, he said he WOULD sign the homeland defense & standard cap mag ban if it came to his desk. So the ONLY reason we don't have the ban is our friends in Congress, since we have no friend in the white house. He appoints an anti-gun AG. He IS better than Kerry however, and Mr. Roberts on the SCOTUS is a good thing. So on a scale of 1 to 100, 100 being a perfect president, Bush is around a 7. Kerry would have been a 0.5. So it's fair to say that Bush is 14 times better than the Dem would have been - a resounding endorsement for the NeoCons!

 

[joab]

Weren't all these myths and lies addressed before the election

 

[GunGoBoom]

yes, if by "myths and lies" you mean truths, and if by "addressed", you mean covered up, subject changed, glossed over, spun by professional spinmeisters, etc.

 

[joab]

yes, if by "myths" you mean truths, and if by "addressed", you mean covered up, subject changed, glossed over, spun by professional spinmeisters, etc.

back at ya

 

[Alex45ACP]

We will, forever, be voting for the lesser of the two evils.

Break the cycle.
www.LP.org

 

[Daniel T]

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaah

oh yeAh tell me again about my tax cut. $300 . thanks dubya. how'd you know i'd be giving it right back to you and your buddies for diesel?

i'd have felt better leaving it in the till. maybe our soldiers could have bought some armor.
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Hey kid, instead saying something as foolish as this, how about you actually go and look at the tax schedule from, say, 1996 and compare it to the 2004 tax schedule. Then come and tell us the entire tax break consisted of $300.

I dunno, maybe you think that the .gov knows how to spend your money better than you do, but I don't.

 

[Brett Bellmore]

This can't be real...

It isn't. Word I hear is that their sample was skewed towards Democrats, instead of being representative. His ratings are about where they've been for some time, which frankly isn't impressive.

But the detailed polling says it's not the war or the economy that's hurting him, it's immigration. Most of the people who are pissed off at him over the war were never in his corner to begin with, but he's killing himself with the people who DID support him, by refusing to do anything about border security.

 

[jefnvk]

I am of the firm belief that the LP does not want to be a serious party. How many congress sopts do they hold? One, I believe?

Needless war for Israel.

I doubt this is a war for Israel. They have proven themselves quite effective when they go to war in the ME.

 

[Flyboy]

"I supported him last year," said Gina Coleman, 29, a homemaker living in Camden County, N.J. "I wouldn't vote for him again. It's gas prices, the war -- just the way he has been handling things. The rise in gas is something that has been happening for a long time, and the prices are getting worse. This makes me feel more negative about him, definitely."

Also shows how informed the public is, you cant vote for him again, cause he cant run again.

Or maybe it was a hypothetical statement. As in "Were he to run again--which he can't--I wouldn't support him." Or, possibly, "If I had it to do over again--which I don't--I wouldn't vote for him again." Give people a little credit, eh?

Not I. Does anyone know how many people are polled?

It seems to me, that most of the surveys I see, are taken with a sample of about 1000 people. That might have been fine years ago when technology wasn't so good, but nowadays, you really oughta be able to poll more than a few thousand people.

No need, really. Polling a thousand people gives you a margin of error of about 3% at the typical 95% confidence level. If you were to go to ten thousand people, you'd only shave it to 1%, still at 95% confidence. Once you get up to a reasonable sample size, even that tenfold increase in sample--which results in a significantly greater than tenfold increase in workload, BTW--doesn't net you much improvement. Statistics is funny that way.

Now, this assumes a properly-constructed sample. In reality, there are probable issues with it; if this was a telephone interview (which it probably was), selection bias and nonresponse bias are factors. Telephone polls are run by calling 1000 homes at random; that means A) the person has to have a telephone, and B) be home at the time of the call. Nonresponse bias occurs when you pick up the phone and decline to participate. Both of these skew results.

Bottom line is, I'd be a whole lot more concerned about the sampling method and construction than the size of the sample. A thousand people really are representative of 300 million.

For more information, read the primer at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error

 

[rick_reno]

but he's killing himself with the people who DID support him, by refusing to do anything about border security.

I live near the border (Canada) and I know in the local press it's been reported that things are being done - they recently added agents here. I've read that agents have been added to the border with Mexico too. I don't think either of these proactive changes are being widely reported in the press.
There are also legislative efforts that Bush will be promoting to address the problems with illegal immigration. While you might not agree with his approach, he is doing something.

 

[Luchtaine]

While I don't think anyone here is terribly fond of Bush per se. I just have to say its amazing what kind of percieved power the president has, by their notions imagine what one of us could do if we became president . The problem is too many people don't know anything about their country or government.

 

[Master Blaster]

Don't you know the President is Omnipotent.

He actually caused the Hurricane by making everyone drive big SUVs, buy big homes then use alot of oil, and precipitating global warming.

ALL so his friends at Haliburton could jack up oil prices.

Its all a vast NEOCON conspiracy, with some help from the elders of Zion of course

Why I heard this on CNN and confirmed it on Moonbat.com.

 

[R.H. Lee]

And it's no wonder. He's a big government liberal in 'conservative' clothing. He's completely unable to articulate a goal in Iraq, let alone rally the nation to his 'cause'. "Stay the course" worn thin about a year ago. He's unwilling to secure the southern border.

I'm entitled to be critical. I actively worked for his election in 2000 and voted for him again in 2004. The best thing I can say about him is that he's not Gore and he's not Kerry.

 

[Delmar]

Master Blaster - you need to manufacture a windshield wiper system for computer monitors

Because I thought of it, I get 10%

 

[Lone_Gunman]

Master Blaster attempts to cover the truth with sarcasm.

Obviously, Bush is not responsible for the hurricane.

However, I think we can give him credit for Campaign Finance Reform, Medicare Reform, No Child Left Behind, huge deficit spending,and a lack of leadership on illegal immigration.

 

[Ledhead686]

Want our troops to really engage in securing America?

Bring them home and put them on the Mexican border. I'd wager that's a military venture most everyone here will support.

Led

 

[HankB]

Bush's rating are falling because of the Iraq war, skyrocketing gasoline prices, insane government spending, and unchecked illegal immigration.

Note that disapproval of Bush does not necessarily mean support for the Democrats.

Seems to me that Bush, on most issues, actually goes from principle rather than poll numbers.

If that's the case, I'm not so sure about his principles.

Would a principled man who used to preach fiscal responsibility not only go along with the Congress but, by refusing to use his veto power, actually encourage them to increase spending at a rate that would make a drunken sailor blush, even on things that have NOTHING to do with 9/11?

Would a principled man who took an oath to serve and protect this country CONTINUE to leave our borders wide open to a rising flood of illegal aliens, going so far as to term those who report illegal border activity as "vigilantes?"

 

[longeyes]

Bush is two men. It's the one who can't say no, especially to Saudi Arabia and Mexico that worries me.

 

[Ledhead686]

Just a thought...

re: Bush and Mexico --

Seems to me the Reps have given up any hope whatsoever on getting the Black vote and have instead concentrated their efforts on luring the ever-increasing Hispanic population into the GOP camp (they now comprise a higher % of the US pop. than Blacks).

 

[CAnnoneer]

The real power of ratings is not what they say but whom they scare and what the scared do in response.

If the Bushahidin do not worry about ratings, they would not have sent him out on a tour to rally support for the war. What they are really worried about is the midterm election in 2006 breaking their backs in the House, as the country gets more and more fed up with the mess they put us all in. Payback is a bytch. Heh.



Skyalmian,

Thanks for the link, dude. GWB's renewed alcoholism was the missing link that finally completes the mosaic of his psychological profile for me.

 

[R.H. Lee]

That 8 minute speech he made today from the Rose Garden was the worst. I think he's completely disconnected from reality. Another thing I heard about but didn't see was Michael Chertoff, you know the head of DHS, giving a speech during which he gave out a website and an 800 number. Meanwhile, the split screen showed people in water up to their necks. Can you say 'disconnect'?

 

[jefnvk]

Payback is a bytch. Heh.

Yep, lets screw ourselves over even more because we don't like something.

 

[rick_reno]

The news footage of Bush flying low over NO was odd - I have to wonder - doesn't he have a TV? The cable news networks are running what looks like non-stop footage from helicoptors flying over that region. Can't he watch it on TV like the rest of us and not waste fuel flying a 747 around at 1700 feet on a sight seeing tour.

Chertoff was on TV and gave out a web site/800 number. That could be very useful for those that make it out of NO. It seems like a good idea.

I just heard that the mayor of NO reassigned 1500 police officers from search and rescue to a stop looting mission.

Before this thing is over it's going to get very surreal.

 

[Monkeyleg]

"I'm entitled to be critical. I actively worked for his election in 2000..."

So did I. And I worked the campaign in 2004 as well.

And that SOB really sold me out. He let terrorists kill Americans in 2001. Then he drove up the price of oil by telling America that terrorists had hit our country.

Then he drove up the price of oil by going after those cute folks in Afghanistan. What did they ever do to us?

Then he got the idea that maybe, just maybe, it was time to take the fight to the terrorists.

Damn if that didn't drive up the price of oil and gas even further.

Then the Chinese started playing with their currency, driving up oil prices further.

Bush went to both Harvard and Yale. Why the heck didn't he learn to speak Chinese when he was there?

Yeah, Bush tried to open up ANWAR and other areas for drilling for oil, but we don't need that, right? After all, Bush is in the hands of the Saudi's, and they'll always do whatever he says.

Now we've got New Orleans wiped out. One of the few areas in the country with gas refineries (thanks to the same folks that have blocked refineries, drilling, and other energy initiatives in the US, in the name of some lame-named toad).

Bush has said he speaks to God. Why didn't God spare New Orleans?

Bush is a liar, a murderer, a terrorist, and a Republican. And God probably hates him for being a Republican.

I remember Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was a decent man. When the OPEC countries staged an oil embargo, Carter came on TV in a cardigan sweater and told us to turn down our thermostats. He was sort of like Mr. Rogers, except Mr. Rogers didn't have the code to launch nuclear weapons.

This country has been through the most tumultous times in the last four years than I've ever seen in my 54 years of life.

What amazes me is that so many are willing to ascribe those events to one man.