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Poll: Fewer Americans Think Bush Is Honest (Oversampled Dems alert: 49% Dems, 39% R, 12% other)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Aug. 5, 2005 | WILL LESTER

Posted on 08/05/2005 2:28:26 PM PDT by QQQQQ

The percentage of people who say they consider Bush honest has dropped slightly from the start of the year. In January, 53 percent described him that way in the AP-Ipsos poll, while 45 percent said they did not believe he was honest. Now, people are just about evenly split — 48 percent saying he's honest and 50 percent saying he's not.

A solid majority still see Bush as likable and a strong leader, but a growing number view the president's confidence as arrogance, up from 49 percent in January to 56 percent now.

The poll of 1,000 adults was conducted Aug. 1-3 by Ipsos, an international polling firm. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apipsos; bush; honest; ipsos; poll
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To: devane617

So I take it DU is not your home base???


61 posted on 08/05/2005 4:22:16 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Black Tooth; CyberAnt
SO? Was that obvious fact supposed to defend the absurd statement that the President got us into 'this mess?'

You fail to make your point...........whatever it might be.

62 posted on 08/05/2005 4:22:29 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: ohioWfan
I may be mistaken, but I believe they were all Saudis that attacked us on 911.

You fail to make your point...........whatever it might be.

I'll let you figure that out.

63 posted on 08/05/2005 4:28:37 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: new yorker 77

Yes, Rasmussen does a really good job.

Gallup was doing good for awhile .. but lately they have been over-sampling dems too .. which makes me wonder if somebody got to them ..??

But .. over on "the Dose" .. we have Dr Deb who sorts out all the polls for us and gives us the internals so people can see the lying liars in action.


64 posted on 08/05/2005 4:30:51 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: Black Tooth
I may be mistaken, but I believe they were all Saudis that attacked us on 911.

Hey...that's a talking point straight out of the leftists handbook. Everytime I fight with them about the war in Iraq, that's the very first thing they throw at me.

I come back at them with, Germany didn't attack us, but we went to war with them.

What sites do you hangout at?

65 posted on 08/05/2005 4:39:51 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Black Tooth
The point being discussed was whether or not it was President Bush who had gotten us 'into a mess.'

You pointed out the (obvious and well known) fact that the terrorists were Saudis.

I will assume then, since you asked me to "figure that out" myself, that you HAD no point to make........that your post was irrelevant and meaningless in the context of the discussion.

Thanks for clarifying that.

66 posted on 08/05/2005 4:40:29 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: MikeA

thanks for the info mike. i no longer take these sorts of polls seriously. the real polls are on election day....
if it doesn't rain ;o)


67 posted on 08/05/2005 4:41:19 PM PDT by Liberty Valance ( Howdy!)
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To: ohioWfan
that your post was irrelevant and meaningless in the context of the discussion.

We were attacked by Saudis on 911. Yet we attacked another country. You find that Irrelevant?

68 posted on 08/05/2005 4:49:14 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: pbrown
I may be mistaken, but I believe they were all Saudis that attacked us on 911.

Hey...that's a talking point straight out of the leftists handbook.

My post stands. You are clearly more familier with the leftist hand book than I.

69 posted on 08/05/2005 4:51:57 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: Irish Eyes

I have been a member of FR from day one, or very shortly thereafter. However, most know that I am not in lock step with the Republican party platform on all issues as many here are. As a fellow Texan that has voted "for" Bush and his father in every election they have run in, I believe I have earned the right to disagree.


70 posted on 08/05/2005 4:52:06 PM PDT by devane617
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To: Black Tooth
Hellooooo???

The DISCUSSION YOU INTERRUPTED was about THE MESS someone said the President had gotten us in.

Please explain what your point means in the CONTEXT of the discussion.

OY!

71 posted on 08/05/2005 5:11:00 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: devane617

In before zot.


72 posted on 08/05/2005 5:11:56 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: devane617
I have been a member of FR from day one, or very shortly thereafter.

June, 2003?? Am I missing something? Banned?

73 posted on 08/05/2005 5:14:13 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: QQQQQ
Hmmmm....after three years of the main stream media, Hollywood, the pop music industry, and the DIMs screaming that Bush is a liar on the most widely watched TV "news" programs, the most widely read newspapers and magazines, and indirectly in the at best thinly veiled statements in movies and popular music, let's take a poll of democratic leaning people and see what they think.

Surprise, surprise.
74 posted on 08/05/2005 5:25:42 PM PDT by ml1954
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To: devane617
I may question his honesty in the near future, but I sure as heck question his priorities for our country. He has gotten us in a mess.

If it was neat and easy, Clinton would have done it.

Sometimes things get a little messy, but that doesn't mean they don't need doing.

Bush warned us that it was going to be a long road.

I think we have a lot further to go.

75 posted on 08/05/2005 5:27:29 PM PDT by oldbrowser (Intelligent design is self evident)
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To: devane617

I respect your opinions, and probably share a lot of them, but with all due respect, can you give me a name of any person with the potential of getting elected that could do one half as credible job in the war on terror as George W. Bush? (And I stress, POTENTIALLY ELECTABLE!)


76 posted on 08/05/2005 5:33:50 PM PDT by appleharvey
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To: QQQQQ

A poll of 1000 adults that is meant to be applied to the US population in general is completely invalid. The US population is approximately 29 million. That's .0000344% of the population. Any poll under 10% is considered by statisticians and scientific researchers to be unreliable. So, unless they survey 2,900,000, they cannot claim any level of accuracy. Randomness doesn't even matter with a sample that small.


77 posted on 08/05/2005 5:37:14 PM PDT by SALChamps03
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To: devane617
He's gotten us in a mess. No my friend a Mess is when Bombs go off in Dallas,Houston,and Austin all at the same time. What. Are you pissed off because the President hasn't call you to seek your advice.??
78 posted on 08/05/2005 5:45:01 PM PDT by Pompah
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To: longtermmemmory

"He is part of the effort to redifine Pres. Bush as a "weak father" and as a dishonest man."




I would also add that the media is now in the process of trying to define Bush's legacy. For the last several years the media has made a concerted effort to describe Bush as a liar. From WMDs to "imminent danger" to the 16 Words and even the fake Thanksgiving Day turkey...everything the media has done is predicated on destroying Bush's honesty and integrity.

I believe they are not only doing this to define the Bush legacy...but to also redifine the Clinton legacy in an effort to marginalize (through their perverted moral relativism) his criminal activities. To them, Bush is no different; they all lie. In fact, if you listen to them, Bush's so-called lies were worse since people died. Of course, they forget that Clinton didn't just lie about sex; he lied about war to cover for sex.


79 posted on 08/05/2005 6:00:38 PM PDT by cwb (Islam is the opiate of the *asses.)
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To: devane617; Black Tooth

He hee! You have been Bush botted. I give Bush high marks overseas, but a D in domestic....whick is where, of course, we live. Press 1 for English : )


80 posted on 08/05/2005 6:01:40 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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