[ambrose]

[ambrose]

Bush's presidential leadership ratings, as measured by the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index, also rose — from 49.5 in April to 51.8 in May, a gain of 4.5%.

"Despite a tough month, Bush seems to have come out ahead," said Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP, a unit of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence and IBD's polling partner. "Bush's ratings have improved among 15 of the 21 demographic groups we track."

Intensity of support among Bush voters is much stronger than support for Kerry, the poll continues to show. While 68% of Bush's supporters say they support him strongly, only 38% of Kerry's supporters say the same for him.

Kerry also lags Bush in tapping his party's constituencies. Bush gets 90% of Republican votes while Kerry gets 77% of Democrats. In fact, one in eight Democrats (12%) want to vote for Bush.

Only 11% of Democrats say they are "very satisfied" with the choice of candidates in this year's election and 59% are "somewhat satisfied." This contrasts with 42% of Republicans who are "very satisfied" and 37% who are "somewhat satisfied."

[FairOpinion]

Any chance of getting this to show up under FrontPage News in the sidebar?

I think it deserves to be there.

[Tall_Texan]

Rather than looking at snapshots, distinctive trends say much more. While the "independants" is still close, you can see Bush making slow steady progress with each new poll. That tells me the ad campaign defining Kerry and his lack of a real response means Bush is slowly making headway with the key swing voters.

But it's early and while some say the electorate has few undecideds, I think there will be one or two bombshells between now and Election Day which will significantly swing the undecideds (another terror attack, capturing bin Laden or a possible weakening of consumer confidence due to bad economic results).

[onyx]

Third, most Americans (80%) see Bush as a resolute leader. "And as things get tougher in Iraq," Mayur said, "we expect more Americans to gravitate toward him."




Backfiring on media.

[BigSkyFreeper]

[Eastbound]

Translation: The dems crapped out again. They should have never picked up the dice.

[ubaldus]

Their "battleground states" subsample is probably quite small, and the polling error for this sample correspondingly large. That's why it's jumping all over the place - from 46-43 for Kerry in April to 49-40 for Bush now. In general, I would not pay much attention to this particular piece of data.

The overall polling numbers look very good for Bush, 47-44 in two-way race is really encouraging, especially since these are registered voters, not likely voters. Bush support is rock solid, it seems he has 43-44% percent of the vote solidly locked. Now he can work on getting the remaining 6-7%.

[struwwelpeter]

Kerry will still be able to count on his base.

[conservative in nyc]

I think the headline should really read "Bush Widens Lead Over Kerry BECAUSE Of "Difficulties" In Iraq."

As each day passes, I'm becoming more and more convinced that the politicization of the scandal is backfiring on Flip-Flop and the Dems. Big time! Many of the NASCAR dads he needs to have any chance to win anywhere in the south and the Reagan Democrats he needs to win in the Midwest probably think the Iraqi prisoners got what was coming to them, anyway. Some women are repulsed by the pictures, repulsed by the release of the pictures, repulsed by the politicization of the pictures, and want this all to just go away. Other women empathise with the "poor kiddie" soldiers who just got caught up in a bad situation --- there but for the grace go I --- what if it were my little Johnny instead? And a good portion of the public just doesn't listen and doesn't care. They'll vote against Flip-Flop because he comes across as an arrogant S.O.B. whose wife will make Zsa Zsa Huffington look like Mother Teresa when all is said and done. (Ooooh. I insulted Tah-ray-zah -- bring it, Flip-Flop. And while you're coming, please bring me her tax returns. I need to see a good dose of liberal hypocrisy in the morning). Besides, President Bush has better hair.

But it's already been buh-rung. The grandstanding on the Hill will energize the Republican base. It might energize the metrosexual effeminate urban elites -- but they have their queer eyes on the metrosexual flip-flop guy anyway. Besides, come election day, they'll probably be too busy sipping their double mocha swiss latte grandes on their way to their facials at the spa to actually go out and vote.

Setbacks in war cause Americans to rally around the President. The question becomes not what has the incumbent done wrong, but how do we know that the other guy will do right. We didn't remove Lincoln. We didn't remove Roosevelt. We didn't remove Nixon. We voted for the General over the square in 1952. We voted for that General's Vice President over the liberal dove in 1968. And the metrosexual flip-flop guy voted for being a self-confessed war criminal before he voted against it. Is "decorated war hero" his final answer?

I'll take "Arrogant Quotes from Politicians Who Flip-Flop" for $200, please Alex. "Yo quiero una cerveza!" Who is John Kerry? "I don't fall down! That S.O.B. knocked me over!" Who is John Kerry? "I voted FOR the $87 Billion BEFORE I voted against it." Who is John Kerry? "The b!@ch set me up!" Well, who is Marion Barry.... But Flip Flop will stick his silver foot in his mouth to say something similar, I'm sure. Give him time. Let him talk.

Do not despair. Things may look bleak in the next few weeks. Hillary! will shrill. Kennedy will bloviate. KKK Byrd will put on his Bush hater hood once again. Leaky Leahy will leak more than the Titanic. And the Senate Republicans will push the Dems out of the way to get off the supposedly sinking Bush ship. But it will be Flip Flop's chances that will sink like the S.S. Minnow the more they make a mountain out of this cover-up mole hill. Let's just hope they don't let that RAT off of his sinking ship to swim to that unchartered desert isle of Eagleton.

[CPOSharky]

The liberals have what doesn't work right in front of them.

Therefore, they will keep doing it, even harder.

(If a couple of laws don't work, make more.)

[glaseatr]

I'm not shocked to see this number. I'd bet a dollar that the pollster took his sample from San Francisco and berkeley.