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Bush Approval Falls to 33%, Congress Earns Rare Praise
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| March 15, 2006
Posted on 03/15/2006 10:25:20 PM PST by jmc1969
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To: Torie
The Pew Poll has convinced me. I refuse to vote to reelect George W. Bush in 2008.
In the interim he has my confidence and support.
To: Torie
To: Plutarch
""Chertoff out and Tancredo in at Homeland Security. Renounce Amnesty, move effectively to seal borders, and approval will be back > 50%.""
wow, you want to see incompetent, put Tancredo anywhere.
To: Walkin Man
""Maybe when the rat party takes control of the House and starts impeachment proceedings against Dubai W, they will realize the American public is sick to death of republican BS.""
soyou think impeaching bush will be popular with the American people
To: T.L.Sink
""and has escalated the trade deficit to record proportions by outsourcing jobs and failing to protect domestic native industry.""
youre such an idiot it is pathetic...if the govt undetook policies to create a trade surplus or even a trade deficit of 0, youd be screaming bloody murder.....that fact that youd make such a statement proves what an economic illiterate you are.
To: Torie
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posted on
03/16/2006 8:25:12 PM PST
by
PISANO
(We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
To: PISANO
Your post has the virtue of brevity at least. :)
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posted on
03/16/2006 8:26:03 PM PST
by
Torie
To: mc6809e
And who would be right for the part?
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posted on
03/16/2006 8:27:10 PM PST
by
skateman
(Bush good, demonrats bad.)
To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
""Bush's poll numbers are down because conservatives are stunned at how socialist he is. This is not due to swing voters moving, but because Bush has turned off so many Republicans and nearly all conservatives.""
his approval rating among teh GOP is 73%, so'd I say your statement is just a bit ridiculous
To: West Coast Conservative
Bush has always had his up and downs. He'll be back up again. He's being misunderestimated, as usual. :)
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posted on
03/16/2006 8:28:49 PM PST
by
veronica
("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
To: HitmanLV
The polls in March 2004 showed Kerry leading by 5 to 8 points. What I am saying is that polls can be very biased and polls in the month March of an election year are meaningless. Come to me in the last two weeks of October and talk to me about polls, other than that I will tell you:
"He who lives by the polls will die by the polls, ask the 1% of democrats with brains and they will tell you how true this is."
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posted on
03/16/2006 8:30:56 PM PST
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: jveritas
Here's the problem with that.
This is uncharted territory. No president in recent memory has had such a public perception problem for as long as Dubya has had. He has been in the dumps since summer 2005 and really shows no signs of life now.
The poll isn't meaningless: it means Dubya has a leadership problem. It is less meaningful as a predictior for the election in 2006, that is true.
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posted on
03/16/2006 8:33:29 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
(Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
To: HitmanLV
But it is the elections that matters at the end and winning it is the most important objective of a political party. We had this discussion before President Bush can rally the American people around him and the Republican Party just by simply ramping up the issue of Iran and its nuclear weapons and make this a very important elections issues. However I still easiest and most effective battle cry that will energize the Republican base and the independents leaning Republicans and bring them in very heavy numbers on election day is to play on a truthful element of fear: " If the democrats win the House of Representative they will impeach President Bush in times of war". This will bring the
Also the capture of one of the big three terrorists, Bin Laden Zarqawi or Zawahiri, will give President Bush at least 10 to 15 points bump.
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posted on
03/16/2006 8:42:37 PM PST
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: jmc1969
Here's the question. Who could do a better job than President Bush? Anyone? It's a tough time to be popular with things the way they are going.
To: jveritas
Winning elections is the objective. The problem is that it doesn't look like Dubya has the confidence of the american people. He needs that to move his agenda forward. He doesn't have it, his agenda is stillborn. He was made a fool over the Dubai ports deal, for example. He isn't winning right now.
We haven't caught one of the big three terrorists, Bin Laden Zarqawi or Zawahiri, in 4 1/2 years. I have no idea where the conventional wisdom on FR concluded that the capture of one of these three is somehow expected (or likely) in the next 6 months. Pipe dream. It could happen, but it's not a likelihood.
Further, the 10-15 point jump for capturing any one of those guys is more wishful thinking than anything else. What's the baseline? Can you point to the capture of a big terrorist that correlated with a 10-15 point sudden jump in approval? I can't. What makes you think that 10-15 point bump will be sustained (that is, odds are that Dubya's ineptness will continue as it has for the last 9 months and bring that down quickly). You bet with the streak, not against it. FR is betting against the streak. Not wise.
Your thoughts are nice but mostly just wishful thinking, not meaningful analysis, sorry.
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posted on
03/16/2006 8:54:49 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
(Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
To: Torie
He really needs new speech writers, and those that help compose the texts. I really mean that.I have to agree with this. His speeches, even since the election campaign have been banal and repetitive. I know repetition is the essence of communicating from the stump, but there is a limit, when the people have 'heard it all before' and turn off; and GW's speeches hit that limit a good year ago.
To: hinckley buzzard
It also tends to feed the disengaged perception, the perception that he is all worn out, and just rolling out golden oldies. I say that with deep regret. It is saddening.
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posted on
03/16/2006 9:00:39 PM PST
by
Torie
To: HitmanLV
You have made up your mind that President Bush is inept and you have made up your mind that the democrats will win the 2006 elections. We shall see, I see totally the opposite.
Remember that all those who proclaimed the death of President Bush politically ended up in their own political grave.
One more thing regarding your tagline, if you are a fan of Michael Savage then you can never be a supporter of President Bush. In my opinion Savage is a loon and I am glad that he is not a Republican.
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posted on
03/16/2006 9:10:05 PM PST
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: jveritas
I have concluded from the last 9 months that Bush has had more missteps (and perceived missteps) than sure steps.
I do not think it it a certainty that the dems will win the House and Senate in 2006. I have never said that. I do think if the elections were today, they probably would win handily, and go on to impeach President Bush but fail to convict in the Senate.
Luckily, the election isn't today.
A lot can change in 6 months, but there isn't much evidence right now things are changing. If you think totally the opposite, I'd like to hear specifically why. Your post didn't broach any of the issues i raised in my prior post, it simply dismissed them without any meaningful analysis.
And I am both a fan of Michael Savage and a supporter of President Bush.
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posted on
03/16/2006 9:17:25 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
(Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
To: georgia2006
Not really. You are wrong.
Bush's poll numbers are down due to true conservatives throwing in the towel on him.
If Gallup called me and some socialist sounding liberal asked me, "Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?", I might well say approve, even though I am outraged at Bush's atrocious decisions and agenda. I look at poll organizations as the MSM.
The RATs have not changed. The swing voters are not that big of a percent. It is the conservatives who are bitter and furious over George Bush's policies.
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posted on
03/17/2006 6:01:19 AM PST
by
Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
(Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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