Posted on 04/29/2006 3:18:24 PM PDT by waterloofan
Rasmussen posted a poll today which shows Bush has the lowest approval rating ever.
"Just 37% of Americans now give the President their Approval, only 16% Strongly Approve. Even among Republicans, approval has tumbled and is currently measured at 66%. For most of his first term, Bush earned Approval Ratings in the high 80s from Republicans."
But the most interesting tidbit is this line that a lot of freepers ignored.
"Beginning tomorrow (Sunday), our Job Approval updates will be based upon data using a slight modification to our weighting process. We will adjust our partisan weighting targets once each month based upon survey data collected over the preceding three months. This will maintain the stability needed to follow trends while adjusting periodically for any substantive shifts in partisan affiliation. Recently, we released a summary of our data on partisan shifts over the past couple of years."
I say BS!! Obviously Rasmussen is heavily influenced by the MSM media's sham polls and he has decided to adjust that 'special sauce' to catch up.
We shall see what the real poll will say in November. I am confident the real poll will show Rasmussen is just another charlatan.
I've noticed this too. It's nothing new for him though, a while back he switched from registered voters to adults to keep up with the MSM 'polls'. And I wouldn't be surprised if we picked up MN and Florida (assuming someone besides Harris runs).
I'm surprised Bush is still this strong in the polls. This conservative, former Republican, would give him thumbs down if a pollster called me. Amnesty for illegals is killing Bush and the Republicans.
You are wrong. In NJ, kean is leading. In OH, Dewine is also leading. There is NO way the super-liberal Brown can win in OH. If democrap has Hackette as the candidate, they may have a chance, but fortunately, those democraps are so stupid to push out Hackett. But Brown is toast.
When you start "adjusting" these so-called "polls," they no longer are really unbiased and fair polls. They are "adjusted" polls that needed to be tweaked to produce the results the pollster desired.
Setting: A cafe. All the customers are Vikings. Mr. and Mrs. bun enter - downwards (on wires).
Mr. Bun (Eric Idle): Morning.
Waitress (Terry Jones): Morning.
Mr. Bun: What have you got, then?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage, and bacon; egg and POLLS; egg, bacon, and POLLS; egg, bacon, sausage and POLLS; POLLS, bacon, sausage, and POLLS; POLLS, egg, POLLS, POLLS, bacon, and POLLS; POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, egg, and POLLS; POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, baked beans, POLL, POLLS, POLLS, and POLLS; or lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy, and a fried egg on top and POLLS.
Mrs. Bun (Graham Chapman): Have you got anything without POLLS in it?
Waitress: Well, there's POLLS, egg, sausage, and POLLS. That's not got MUCH POLLS in it.
Mrs. Bun: I don't want _any_ POLLS.
Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, POLLS, and sausage?
Mrs. Bun: That's got POLLS in it!
Mr. Bun: Not as much as POLLS, egg, sausage, and POLLS.
Mrs. Bun: Look, could I have egg, bacon, POLLS, and sausage without the POLLS?
Waitress: Uuuuuuuuugggggh!
Mrs. Bun: What d'you mean uuugggh!? I don't like POLLS.
Vikings: (singing) POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, POLLS. POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, POLLS... Lovely POLLS,wonderful POLLS.... (Brief shot of Viking ship)
Waitress: Shut up. Shut up! Shut up! You can't have egg, bacon, POLLS, and
sausage without the POLLS.
Mrs. Bun: Why not!
Waitress: No, it wouldn't be egg, bacon, POLLS, and sausage, would it.
Mrs. Bun: I don't like POLLS!
Mr. Bun: Don't make a fuss, dear. I'll have your POLLS. I LOVE them. I'm
having POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, POLLS...
Vikings: (singing) POLLS, POLLS, POLLS, POLLS...
But you likely won't vote for the Democrat to show your displeasure with Bush.
The poll disapproval increase is due to a significant number of people who are to the right of Bush who used to say Somehwat Approve and now say Somewhat Disapprove. It won't help the Democrats add votes, it may or may not suppress conservative voting depending on how the election season goes and what the stakes appear to be in November.
I think I smell ozone.
This Congress has done jack for about 2 years. With the President's approval ratings tanking, with little good coming out of Congress, and with gas prices going higher and higher, I think you're being way too overly optimistic about how the GOP will fare in November.
This party will not win the November elections by sitting here and doing nothing, and it will not win by promoting stupid policy either. The Republicans need to wake up- when half of FreeRepublic is pissed off at them and considering sitting out in November, you know there is a problem.
My prediction is that we will only lose PA but will probably pick up MN, NJ. So it's a wash.
I'm with you.
I give Bush a D.....for like Daddy.
He used to merit a B+....maybe even an A right after 9-11 except for inviting those murdering Hamas supporters into our national cathedral
I'm guessing a dog will wag deservedly at some point over Iran and I hope he just does nothing about illegals till we can get a better GOP to replace him
meanwhile...work on taxes, don't do another Harrietgate and get out there and push the WOT Jorge
If his numbers are this low -- and continue to stay this low -- they might indicate a real problem.
"But you likely won't vote for the Democrat to show your displeasure with Bush. "
I will sit this one out. That's 2 less votes for the Republicans. The outcome will depend on who gets the most votes. Two less votes for the RINO party will not help their chances.
It is NOT pro-bush sentiment, it is the FACT. I'm sad that even some freepers are losing faith. Remember, Rass was the most accurate pollster in 2004 while he was being branded as pro-Bush by MSM pollsters.
On the whole, I like Bush, but he has done an almost unremittingly lousy job ever since he was reelected. Just about the ONLY thing he has done right was to put Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Court.
Otherwise, it has been one mistake after another, and a complete breakdown in communicating with the voters. This was not inevitable. He had a lot of momentum after the November elections, and he just plain blew it.
His polls are right. Bad news is Bush is in mid thirties approval. Good news is Democrats are low thirties.
All in all Bush is a good and decent man and he's been a pretty damn good president...no matter what the current mood of the country. If he were to get behind a strong border enforcement bill and stop talking about amnesty for these damned illegals alot of his approval problems would go away in a hurry. But either way...W's not on the ballot in November and the GOP is not NEARLY as vulnerable as the MSM would like to make us think. I say ignore the polls and enjoy the summer.
chaRlATan that is.
Uh, the dems SHOULD be primed to take over in the '06 midterms. Odds are against it simply because the American people HATE liberals. The GOP should run ads showing just exactly who would be taking over the various committees, etc. These are the most kookball leftists in the congress. People like Charles Rangel, John Conyers, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, Jerrald Nadler.
But he might not vote republican either.
republicans passed a strong bill in the house going after illegals.
Instead of getting credit conservatives call them amnesty lovers.
On the other side dean and hispanics are calling republican racists.
This is recipe for disaster for republicans.
Pelosi, Rangel, Conyers, Dean: The leaders of tomorrow
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