Posted on 04/07/2006 7:43:55 AM PDT by John Geyer
Every poll is the worst poll for the GOP and Bush, EVER POLL.
House and Senate can bring the party back and gain support from their base regardless of the polls IF they start to act like Republicans again and distance themselves from Specter, Graham, McCain.
Pass a strong border control plan quickly and no amnesty or worker program for illegals and definitely no welfare for them.
AP, stopped reading immediately.
This speaks volumes as to the feeling of conservative voters toward RINOs
I personally feel Republicans sold out their base.
The Dems will NEVER lead the GOP on security issues.
For what it's worth, this polling firm is owned by the French.
It's skewed, to be sure, but there is definitely a bad trend going on. Fox took out its own poll yesterday and said his approval was at 36%. I'm inclined to believe Fox News polls are accurate, generally.
Bush's polls suck, and I don't care, he deserves it.
I still don't know why this president is not out in front not only doing the Iraq stuff but promoting the economic numbers like a 4.7% unemployment.
Being popular has never been a prerequisite for accomplishing anything important.
Popularity is overrated and is probably a good indication of shallowness. "A walk through the waters of many men's souls would scarcely wet your feet".
Either you are true to your base or you lose them.
Some democracy; the people's voices are routinely ignored by some high-falutin' rich white guy in Washington? Shameful and un-American...
What's that? We're a Republic, not a democracy? We elect leaders to represent us based on their ideology and experience, not on the daily whim of public opinion?
Oh.
Never mind...guess I better move to France...
I can't believe that anyone in their right mind would even bother reading one of these DemocRAT "polls" with the political atmosphere being as poisoned as it is. If you think the Liberals in the MSM would ever release a "poll" showing Bush's "popularity" rising right now, you're doing too much meth. The MSM has their DNC blitzkrieg on a roll. They are really working it in an effort to get the Senate and the House back for their 'RAT massas. Lord knows, the 'RATS can't do it themselves. Even the morons at FOX news are out of touch. According to FNC, "da conomy" is the number one issue with the American people. That's why MILLIONS of illegal aliens are planning to trash America and "get in America's face" while demanding a free ride from the taxpayers on May 1st. Yeah. "It's da conomy." I don't think so.
Polls, schmolls . . . I wrote the following "heads up" TWO DAYS AGO:
HEADS UP. . .
I want to forewarn everyone that we are on the cusp of a new round of MSM manufactured polls . . . Rest assured, the President's new JA ratings will be the LOWEST OF HIS PRESIDENCY (aren't they always)!
Just remember, these polls mean NOTHING. The President has already been re-elected; for him it's about making the RIGHT decisions for the short-term to help solve TOUGH, COMPLEX problems for the LONG-TERM . . . Unlike his predecessor, our President is willing to take the political hits now (re the WOT, immigration, social security, and so on) so that future generations can live in peace and prosperity. If he were obsessed with JA ratings, he would simply do a Clinton and just pass the the problems on to the next president (and the next generation) -- of course, the problems would worsen exponentially and become even more immutable to change.
At any rate, I think our montra should be: UNTIL THE PRESIDENT'S JA RATINGS HIT -2004*, WE'RE JUST NOT INTERESTED!
*I chose 2004 to underscore the year in which President Bush earned re-election with more votes than any other president in history DESPITE the fact that Zogby, FoxNews/Opinion Dynamics and Gallup used their polls to predict the president would LOSE his re-election bid -- so much for the reliability of pollsters who use invalid sampling techniques to MANUFACTURE agenda-driven polling results!
RASMUSSEN:
Interestingly, today's RASMUSSEN'S poll puts the President's JA rating at an 8-day high:
43% approve 56% disapprove
[NOTE: According to Rasmussen, who also oversamples Democrats (just not as flagrantly as other pollsters), the President's JA rating has consistently ranged between 40% and 45% (43%-48% likely voters) for March and early April -- basically where he (the President) was during the 2004 election cycle!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
FOX NEWS/OPINION DYNAMICS:
I'm sure the various FoxNews pundits and talking heads will be quoting the new Opinion Dynamics poll ad nauseum tonight and thru the weekend. The following is all you need to know about this poll:
1.) The ONLY thing that changed between this poll -- 36% approve 53% disapprove (-17) -- and the last poll -- 39% approve 51% disapprove (-12), is the polling sample. Specifically, the differential between the percentage of Democrats and Republicans polled changed by 4 points (advantage Democrats):
Apr 04-05: 39% Democrat 34% Republican (-5)
Mar 14-15: 37% Democrat 36% Republican (-1)
FUN FACTOID from this poll:
Republicans (Congress)-- only 29% approve
Democrats (Congress)-- only 29% approve
Additionallly, when dealing with illegal immigration, 58% of Republicans and 63% of Independents believe we should deal with the illegal immigrants already here and/or use a comined approach of dealing with the illegals already here and securing the borders -- the President's COMPREHENSIVE position.
Concurrently, 69% agree (including 69% of Republicans) that the US should provide illegals with some type of temporary worker status -- also a position of the President
And the country. The performance of the gop lead congress has been abysmal and the problem is the dems would be no better or worse. They have focused on doing all they can to established their own job security via gerrymandering and then increased their incomes and perks while divising new ways to soak the taxpayer. Meanwhile the country has been going to hell and deeper into debt. None of them deserve our support, gop or dim. Time for a wholesale house cleaning (which would be impossible, they have seen to that) or a revolution
And if they don't wise up, they will keep dropping.
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