Actually, yes it is rigged. Go look at its internal numbers. It polled 43% Democrat, 33% Republican and 18% independent. The actual voting population only has a 2 point differential between Democratic and Republican voters, so this poll just like CBS totally over-emphasized Democratic input. If you weighted out that skew, it is likely Bush would be at about 45-46% approval. Not great, but it's not 39% either.
Why do you have a need to believe these polls? Are you throwing a hissy over port terminal operations and just want to believe everyone hates Bush because now you do as well?
The actual voting population only has a 2 point differential between Democratic and Republican voters, so this poll just like CBS totally over-emphasized Democratic input. If you weighted out that skew, it is likely Bush would be at about 45-46% approval. Not great, but it's not 39% either.
Is that true?....then why don't they use those numbers?....and do/did you work for a polling company?....
I did. Actually there are more Democrats registerd but they are too lazy and dumb to vote. However, if you think you could get an equal number of Republicans to the polls tomorrow as Democrats, you've been smoking something funny.
Maybe the absolute level is not correct but the guys that stick their head in the sand and say Bush's declining poll numbers are meaningless because he isnt running again are nuts. There are more than 450 races for the congress this fall and many of them will be affected by Bush and even if they werent it impacts his ability to get congress to act.
If I have anything to say about it, that won't happen. I'm a hard worker, and frankly I'm irritated at the lameass Republican incumbents playing politics with the port. The facts are Dubai is an ally, the people bitching are bitching over thoughts and images--not hard facts, and the election is eight months away...a LIFETIME in politics.
Bush hasn't ever stuck his finger in the air to find which way he should move, and he shouldn't start now.
BTW, MikeA, thanks for revealing the internals on that poll--43% Democrat, eh? Bush certainly could appeal to his "base" more to bring those numbers up, but I think when the voters HONESTLY stand in the booth they aren't going to punch a chad for a 'rat; they're wusses on national security--BIG TIME.
Bush's modus operandi, from what I've seen, is to let the LameStream Media and 'rats (and sometimes panicked, pitiful Republicans) run and run and run and run until they're out of steam, then he steps in and clears the air...and he rebounds.
So let's let 'em scream and moan--the they'll eventually tire out, and the truth will finally get some air.