Polls they craft, conduct and report on. See the obvious problem for your line of reasoning here? Your whole argument revolves around trusting a media that has been caught in dozens of lies in the last 20 months. So we should trust proven liars to be accurate on THIS issue when we know they have lied to us about everything else concerning President Bush.?
Well, as someone ealier pointed out to me, the polls are not conducted by the media, but by professional polling organizations. But I am not saying the polls are always accurate as there are three problems with polls. First of course is the political demographics, though the polling organizations say they normalize for that. Second is the language used in the question, and third is the margin for error. But every poll showing dramatic drops in both the President's approval and approval of the War in Iraq should not be ignored. Republican internal polls are showing similar results. It is not the end of the world, but they should be factored in to Republican political strategy.