You probably have to give it another 3 points on top of those numbers just because of the bias of who was doing the polling.
MORE ABOUT THIS POLL . . .
"The country is just in a foul mood," says Democratic strategist James Carville. He cites a new poll from Democracy Corps in which 56 percent of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. Democracy Corps provides public opinion polling and strategic advice to Democrats. It was cofounded by Mr. Carville and Stanley Greenberg, who served as President Clinton's pollster.
THE LATEST DEMOCRACY CORPS SURVEY, CONDUCTED JUNE 20-26, FOUND THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE "NOT DOING VERY WELL," Mr. Greenberg said at a Monitor breakfast.
Some 43 percent of voters said they had warm feelings about the Republican Party, while only 38 percent had positive feelings about Democrats. "Republicans weakened in this poll ... but it shows Democrats weakening more," Greenberg said. He attributes the decline to voters' perceptions that Democrats have "no core set of convictions or point of view."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0629/p02s01-usmb.html
You read correctly, Carville and Greenberg's own poll indicates that, yes, Republican job approval ratings are down (including the President's) BUT the Democrats' ratings are down MORE!!!!
POSITIVE (WARM) FEELINGS
48% (Mean 50.0%) President Bush
43% (Mean 49.8%) the Republican Party
41% (Mean 47.6%) the Republican Congress
38% (Mean 48.9%) the Democrat Party
NOTE: The President and Republicans outpoll the DIMS despite the fact that this poll grossly oversamples Democrats and Democrat-oriented constituency groups, e.g., women, minorities, and adults over the age of 60!
THIS IS WHY THE DIMS AND THEIR MEDIA ENABLERS ARE HYSTERICAL . . . THEY ATTACK THE PRESIDENT RELENTLESSLY AND STILL CAN'T EXCEED HIS APPROVAL RATINGS AT THE POLLS!
That's because the Republicans allow the Democrats to get their way too often. The country moves in the wrong direction, while people wring their hands and say "Why don't the Republicans get a spine?!"
This is bad news-we don't want the Democrats to change a thing, least of all the DNC's chairman Screamin' Dean. I prefer it when they're fat, dumb and happy.
You mean they were surprised by the results of the poll? What a bunch of losers and dunderheads.
And let's hope Howard Dean remains as chairman of the DNC for a loooooooonnnnnngggggg time.
Well, good grief, if the face you show to the public is both as mendacious and as relentlessly negative as the Dems have been of late, you have to expect people to react in kind. This should be news to nobody.
Strategery + Schardenfreude = Stratenschardenfreudery
That headline is priceless!
At long last some sanity in all this doom and gloom in the MSM about Bush, Iraq, and Bush. Things are not as bad as they may seem.
What about their ring? What does their mood RING tell them?
How can you think positive about a group of people who have nothing positive to say. This is not rocket science.
They're just letting something get published about it now because there aren't as many brain-stem-reflexive leftists left to vote for them.
2002:
ping
I suspect recent Supreme Court activities have shown the democrats that the "liberals" propensity to feed on their own is guaranteed to come around and bite them eventually. As such, the "true" democrats will attempt to separate themselves first from "liberal democrats" and then from "liberals" in general. In the short term it will fracture the party. But in the long term, watch for Hillary to redefine herself as a "democrat" (not a "liberal") and mend the fence as memories fade.
Everybody hates democrats. And with good reason.
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