[MHGinTN]

Uh, I wouldn't say half the country hates Bush--though the pollsters who increase their capital by purveying such a machination would have you believe that. More likely is, the pollsters know to whom they can go for polling results in order to fashion such a notion with specious statistics.

[EDINVA]

you are absolutely right in the "targeting" of the poll audience, and then using the poll to form opinions.

When I was a (mea culpa) liberal living in NYC, I was Gallup'd, Nielsen'd, and otherwise polled annually.

When I was in the conversion process, living in liberal Washington, DC., I was polled by the Washington Post and one other national pollster.

Since moving to more conservative Virginia, I haven't heard from any pollster in 20 years.

Go figure.

[not2worry]

Yes and they also predicted that The Passion of the Christ would be a miserable flop.

After the Clinton Administration and 9/11, I feel most of Americans are looking for a power greater than ourselves that we can turn to in the troubling problems that confront each of us on a daily basis.

I certainly sleep better at night knowing George W. Bush is in the White House.

AND I pray every night for our President and his Administration, and thank God for the blessing of being an American.