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Posted on 12/02/2003 4:27:02 PM PST by ex-Texan
Bush's Approval Ratings Soar to 61% After Baghdad Visit
This report was posted on Google about 40 minutes ago. Then it mysteriously disappeared from Google and from the San Franciso Chronicle's web site.
The Chronicle cited a new poll. The story said that Bush's approval ratings went up from 56% before his Baghdad visit.
Now the story has been "spiked" by the Chronicle and vanished without explanation from Google.
My attempts to copy the report were blocked by the Chronicle with repeated pop-up ads. Just thought every Freeper ought to know.
Now if he could just have sex with an intern, it would go up to 75% like it did with Clinton.
Anything from the SFO Chron. complimenting the President is suspect.
But...more importantly...forget the damn polls!!!!!
Next year the voters will return Dubya to the Presidency based on his record....NOT..the GD polls !
Poll: President's approval on the rise after Thanksgiving
WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
©2003 Associated Press
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(12-02) 14:30 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --
President Bush's standing with the public has improved since his surprise Thanksgiving trip to Iraq amid signs of a stronger economy and following congressional passage of a prescription drug benefit under Medicare.
Bush's job approval was at 61 percent in the National Annenberg Election Survey conducted the four days after the holiday, up from 56 percent during the four days before Thanksgiving. Disapproval of the president dropped from 41 percent to 36 percent, according to the poll released Tuesday.
Bush visited the troops in Baghdad on Thanksgiving -- a move that even won praise from political opponents.
Public opinion about Bush personally also improved during the four-day, post-holiday span, with an increase in the number who view him favorably from 65 percent to 72 percent. Republicans shifted from 83 percent with a favorable view of Bush personally to 94 percent. Democrats moved from 46 percent to 55 percent.
Public opinion on the war in Iraq did not shift significantly, however. People were about evenly split on whether the war in Iraq was worthwhile before the holiday and afterward.
Approval of Bush's handling of Iraq increased slightly, with 44 percent approving and 53 percent disapproving before Thanksgiving, and people evenly split on that question now. The public view of his handling of the economy also shifted from a 45-51 percent split before Thanksgiving to a public divided almost evenly on his handling of the economy, 50-48, afterward.
The margin of sampling error for the 789 people interviewed before Thanksgiving and the 847 interviewed after was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
©2003 Associated Press
Bravo for my fellow Freepers!
Enjoy!!!
No kidding. I am sick of the polls this and polls that. But I will admit this is a tasty pill to take!
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