TIMECNN POLL: Most Registered Voters Would Choose Bush

CNN ^ | Fri Nov 21 2003 | CNN/TIME

[Ciexyz]

Go Bush go!

[Ciexyz]

Even AARP is siding with the Pubbies! Bush is getting things done for America!

[Ciexyz]

so we don't need a damn 1 trillion dollar drug give-away bill!

Au contraire, do you want Bush to get elected or not? Besides, you'll be there someday yourself! Get smart about it!

[Wait4Truth]

Hope you've got your body armor on. LOL! Some here are not happy. However, the RATS are furious that President Bush, an evil Republican, did what clinton could not - deliver a prescription drug benefit to seniors. And it is not a trillion dollar bill, as one poster said. It is $400 billion - quite a difference. The RAT senators on the floor are now giving out the phone number of AARP so they can scream to them...too funny.

[Uncle Hal]

I find it very interesting that when polls ask people if they are going to vote for Bush in 04 the majority say no by a narrow margin. But when these polls put Bush up against a specific Democratic candidate Bush wins easily. Why do you think that is?

[jmaroneps37]

Obviously its time for a push poll, W is doing too well. How about " What would you rather have happen, George W. Bush re-elected or a cure for cancer developed?"

[blackie]

GWB has to be doing something right to piss off the lunatic left like he does ~ I love it ~ GWB Is The Man!

Be Well ~ Be Armed ~ Be Safe ~ Molon Labe!

[mansion]

All good points. Alas, such comments could get you banned on this site!

What do these polls really say about GW Bush anyway? That he's popular and the number one choice of likely voters, or that the Democrat alternatives are, to put it politely, "less than inspiring"...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I've often wondered why most statisticians lack a sense of humor. ;-)

Statistics show that statisticians have a 19% better median sense of humor than programmers, 27% better than engineers, an 8% advantage on doctors and 12% on lawyers. Also, 95% of all statistics are made up.

[optimistically_conservative]

And for Reuters' spin:

Politics - Reuters
Poll Says U.S. Voters Evenly Split on Bush
Sun Nov 23, 6:31 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year before the next presidential election, voters in the United States are about where they were in 2000 on the question of President Bush (news - web sites) -- split down the middle -- according to a new poll by Time magazine and CNN.

The poll showed that 47 percent were somewhat likely or very likely to vote to re-elect Bush and 48 percent were somewhat unlikely or very unlikely to do so.

Bush's overall job approval rating was at 52 percent, according to the poll, down from its peak of 89 percent in October 2001, just after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. His disapproval rating reached a new high, at 43 percent, the poll said.

Even with rising disapproval ratings, Bush still would defeat any of his possible Democratic opponents if the election was held this year. The poll of 1,507 people, conducted Nov. 18-19, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

The Democrat who would give Bush the toughest run for re-election would be retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark (news - web sites), according to the survey's results. Even so, Bush would defeat Clark 49 percent to 42 percent, according to the poll.

Bush would best former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (news - web sites), the Democratic who has raised the most campaign money to challenge the president, by 59 percent to 39 percent of those polled.

Bush's handling of the U.S. economy and post-war Iraq (news - web sites) are expected to be the two hottest issues of the 2004 presidential campaign.