Gallup: Bush Gets Post-Election Bounce (53% Approval Rating)

Gallup News Service ^ | November 12, 2004

[Southack]

When the Old Media pounds away at full speed, it can influence 10% to 15% of the U.S. population.

But the Old Media can't keep pounding away at full speed forever. The election is over, and now they are all backing off of their daily scandal-mongering and character attacks against President Bush.

The longer that the Old Media stays backed off of GWB, the more his approval will add from those 10% to 15% of Americans who were adversely swayed against GWB.

So you could see President Bush's approval rating hit 61% to 66% simply by having the Old Media stay quiet for too long.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the good news.

[JoJo Gunn]

OhmyGawd, it's another poll. AIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[GraniteStateConservative]

I bet his actual Election Day job approval was 50%.

[traderrob6]

Thanks for the poll, i was going into serious withdrawal

[katieanna]

I'm polled out!

[JLS]

That is within the margin of error. I would not doubt that Bush's election day approval might have been about 51% and now it might be any where from 50% to 56%.

[GodBlesBush]

Bush was not at 48% in pre election. Rasmussen who was one of the most accurate pollsters had him at 50-51%. Look at Gallups chart in this thread. the 53 is higher on the chart than the 54% earlier in October. If anyone has access, could you post all the pollsters final poll of the election.

[revealerls]

Zogby came out with his poll today too, and Pres. Kerry's job approval rating was 70%, oh sorry, but that was within the margin of error.

[ppaul]

Twelve days before the election, James Carville stood in a Beverly Hills living room surrounded by two generations of Hollywood stars. After being introduced by Sen. John Kerry’s daughter, Alexandra, he told the room — confidently, almost cockily — that the election was in the bag.

“If we can’t win this damn election,” the advisor to the Kerry campaign said, “with a Democratic Party more unified than ever before, with us having raised as much money as the Republicans, with 55% of the country believing we’re heading in the wrong direction, with our candidate having won all three debates, and with our side being more passionate about the outcome than theirs — if we can’t win this one, then we can’t win shit!”

ROFLMAO!

Here's a link to the rest of the article.

[RWR8189]

The difference between the two is that Gallup's official approval rating is of all adults, while the number that Rasmussen reports as its approval rating is of likely voters.

Gallup's final LV approval rating was 51%, but they screwed up their horserace numbers colossally when they allocated 90% of the undecideds to Kerry.

[nopardons]

LOL...at least it's a good one,JoJo.:-)

[GodBlesBush]

Here's a link of the final pollsters election results. Rasmussen was on top. Gallup was one of the worst predicting Fl, OH, and Wisconsin all wrong.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/pollsters/pollsters.xls