[DrDeb]

POLLS, SCHMOLLS!

During Reagan's presidency, one genuinely independent pollster provided reliable polling data on a wide range of issues, including the President's job approval rating. That one pollster was the Gallup Organization. [Harris and Newsweek also produced polls, with additional pollsters picking up the slack during election years, but these pollsters were always viewed as 'bit' players compared to Gallup.]

In the 1980s, Gallup could still produce a REPRESENTATIVE polling sample of 1,500 - 2,500 adults by eliciting a 'reliable' 60% response rate using standard telephone technology . . . NO MORE!

We now have almost 30 'media-owned' polling organizations -- who regularly ‘manufacture’ skewed polling data by relying upon dated technology, push polling methodologies, and laughably low response rates (from demographic groups who also just happen to lean Democrat).

BOTTOMLINE: Pollsters have become nothing more than propaganda prostitutes for media organizations desperate to SHAPE rather than report public opinion . . . And what is the media's current goal? Nothing less than the personal and political destruction of a sitting President for the express purpose of enabling Democrats to reclaim the Congress and eventually the presidency!


WHY DO WE NEED SO MANY POLLSTERS? Answer: WE don’t, but Democrats do!!!!

NBCNews/WallStreet Journal
ABCNews/WashingtonPost
CBSNews/NYTimes
FoxNews/Opinion Dynamics
USAToday/Gallup
LATimes/Bloomberg
AP/Ipsos Reid
IBD/Christian Science Monitor
Pew Poll
Harris Poll
Time
Newsweek
Quinnipiac
WNBC/Marist
Zogby
Rasmussen
Survey USA
ARG
NationalPublicRadio (NPR)
Cook/RTStrategies
Diageo/Hotline
Strategic Vision
Democracy Corps
The Battleground Poll
Mason Dixon
Annenberg

and many, many more . . . .


FORGET THE POLLS AND JUST REMEMBER:

PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH IS PERSONALLY POPULAR!. . . The new LATimes/Bloomberg poll (which oversamples Democrats by double digits) puts the President's 'PERSONAL APPROVAL' rating at 61% as compared to Clinton's highest 'Personal Approval' rating of 42% for this same poll!!

The recent Battleground Poll discovered the same 'Personal Approval' rating for the President and identified this rating as the greatest hope for Republicans moving forward to the 2006 election. [NOTE: According to the Battleground Poll, Clinton's 'Personal Approval' ratings never climbed
above 40%!]

Bottomline: The MAJORITY of people in this country LIKE President George W Bush and will listen to his message IF and when they actually 'hear' it. Unfortunately, the MSM (right and left) is working overtime to 'black out' and 'counter spin' the President, making it VERY difficult for him to communicate directly with the American people.

Despite these difficulties, George W Bush will continue as president for 2 1/2 more years; during which time, he will ignore the polls and do what's best for the long term security and prosperity of our country! May God continue to bless our great Decider in Chief!

[KevinDavis]

Remember folks, we had a administration that governed by the polls..

[LuvyaDubya]

Bottomline: The MAJORITY of people in this country LIKE President George W Bush and will listen to his message IF and when they actually 'hear' it. Unfortunately, the MSM (right and left) is working overtime to 'black out' and 'counter spin' the President, making it VERY difficult for him to communicate directly with the American people.

This is why President Bush needs Tony Snow to be the next WH spokesman.

Continuing prayers for Tony and his family!

[Txsleuth]

I see these polls...and wonder if freepers are the only "fans" of George left??

Of course, that is a smaller percentage now than ever before, also....sigh.

[luvie]

BTW, according to the link at the top of the thread, the Dow closed at a 6-year high...how many of the Has-been media have reported, let alone praised the president for this accomplishment!...or even giving him any credit at all!

[maica]

Thanks for the list of polling entities. Very illuminating in a stomach-turning way.

Why do we never hear about the poll responses to JA for congressmen and senators? /rhetorical ?

[Liberty Valance]

Great post and thank you for the ping.
And thanks for putting these polls in perspective.

[GOP-Pat]

Don't know if anyone has posted this, but President Bush is on C-Span almost all night.


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Statement
U.S.-China Relations
White House, Oval Office
Jintao Hu , China
George W. Bush , United States


11:28 PM EDT
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Statement
Social Lunch Toasts with Chinese President
White House, East Room
Jintao Hu , China
George W. Bush , United States


11:44 PM EDT
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Speech
U.S.-China Relations
U.S.-China Business Council
Jintao Hu , China


11:44 PM EDT
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Call-In
China’s Role in the World
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
Hongying Wang , Wilson (Woodrow) International Center for Scholars


12:23 AM EDT
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Statement
Chinese President Arrival Ceremony
White House, South Lawn
Jintao Hu , China
George W. Bush , United States


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Statement
U.S.-China Relations
White House, Oval Office
Jintao Hu , China
George W. Bush , United States


01:38 AM EDT
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Statement
Social Lunch Toasts with Chinese President
White House, East Room
Jintao Hu , China
George W. Bush , United States


01:49 AM EDT
0:40
Statement
Chinese President Arrival Ceremony
White House, South Lawn
Jintao Hu , China
George W. Bush , United States


01:54 AM EDT
0:00
Speech
U.S.-China Relations
U.S.-China Business Council
Jintao Hu , China


01:54 AM EDT
0:38
Call-In
China’s Role in the World
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
Hongying Wang , Wilson (Woodrow) International Center for Scholars


02:33 AM EDT
0:31
Statement
U.S.-China Relations
White House, Oval Office
Jintao Hu , China
George W. Bush , United States


03:04 AM EDT
0:15
Statement
Social Lunch Toasts with Chinese President
White House, East Room
Jintao Hu , China
George W. Bush , United States