"44% still said "blame Bush." That's a ridiculously high number."
Especially since we all KNOW that it was actually Karl Rove and his weather machine...
when you consider it's an ABC poll it's rather low..LOL
looks like an ABC poll writer just lost his/her job,didn't quite phrase it right for the right response
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Not when you consider that upwards of 80% of liberals and democrats disapprove of the president, and 90% of republicans approve.
Sounds about right, which should make the collective heads of the MSM explode because they are apparently still mired in the minority after last year's embarrassing electoral defeat.
44% --- That must mean some Democrats don't blame Bush. That must mean some Democrats are freeing their minds from following the party line..
I'll bet more liberals will be jumping ship as they watch the SS MSM continue floating, engines out of fuel, toward the cataracts.
Name a poll that will not show disapproval of what or how GWB is doing. There is a block, largely the anti-war crowd will criticize GWB on anything and everything. Polls are meaningless in the current political environment.
That doesn't surprise me. On AOL's home page today there's a headline -- "'We're Angry, Mr. President': Local Officials Furious at Feds" -- and beneath it is a photo of Bush looking sheepish. Just one of many, many examples of the media gleefully trying to blame Bush. And these things have a way of gaining traction and not going away, despite the facts.
The trouble is, Republicans never fight back. Worse, they're always on the defensive, and they should be on the offensive. For every Democrat out there slyly trying to blame Bush, there should be three Republicans placing blame squarely where it belongs -- on the Democrats of Louisiana (not to mention the people who could have evacuated but didn't).
I agree. 44% is way too high for a thinking people...but not for a shrinking sheeple.
It would be fair to blame the Pres. if he were the person charged with directing local relief activities.
In fact, he is not. The governor of a state is the person with primary responsibility, and the then the local authorities in the vicinity of the actual catastrophe.
"44% still said "blame Bush." That's a ridiculously high number."
Really? It's approximately the precentages that voted for Bill Clinton. Now, that's a real 'ridiculously high number'. Seriously, 42-44 percent is the core democrat vote. IOW, that's about the percentage who would 'disapprove' if Bush had pulled a Moses and parted the waters of Lake Ponchatrain allowing all of NO to walk to safety.