During the same polling period, RASMUSSEN put the President's JA rating at 49% . . . Vis-a-vis CNN/USATODAY/CNN, Rasmussen has proven himself to be a more ACCURATE and RELIABLE pollster (and even he oversamples Democrats by 3-5 points)!!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
When the polls are looking up for PresBush, people who support him are happy. When the polls are looking down for PresBush, everyone finds any excuse to explain away the bad numbers. Usually the blame is placed on the MSM. Fine. I've always thought, if you take the middle ground of all polls, you'd see about where Bush is really sitting. Take those Democrat slanted polls and add 5% to them. You'll be the neighborhhod. Rasmussen 49%, CNN 39%. Bush is probably around 44%-45%. One number is pretty consistent throughout all the polls. Bush gets his best numbers and most support when the issue is the WOT. That's the issue he was reelected on and the issue that keeps giving him his highest support.