Posted on 06/10/2006 5:44:47 PM PDT by RWR8189
For one day at least, President Bush was more popular than he's been all year.
The president's lagging poll numbers got a swift boost from Thursday's news that U.S. warplanes had killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted-terrorist in Iraq.
Polling done on Thursday for the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index gave Bush a 44.2 rating, up from 39.1 in the prior days of June and 38.9 in May. The last time the Index reached this level was in December, when it hit 44.3.
Readings below 50 are negative. The complete June index will be released on Tuesday.
Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP, a unit of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, said the sudden rise in sentiment on a range of issues, including America's standing in the world, suggests Bush's bounce is "totally attributable" to Zarqawi.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Bush don't care about polls and popularity he wants to get the job done in Iraq.
I think most of these are fixed anyway !
MSM has to brainstorm now about how to present events in bad light in order to bring those numbers down.
the Zark bounce shows exactly fickle opinion polls are......have they ever called you??? i'm 52 and i've NEVER been asked to be in that 'representative group' or 4-500 people who speak for the other 152 million....
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Time to dust off the Abu Graihb and Gitmo pictures!
http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/curious_gwb
"Bush's Approval Up On Zarqawi's Death, But It May Not Last"
As long as the ratmedia has anything to say about it, 'it may not last'".
Zarqawi's Death may not last?
What a scoop!
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I've never been called by a pollster in my 45 years.
Then again, I'm not on the list of DNC contributors. :)
You cracked it..Jake
If the rat media has something to say about it, "It won't last."
The death of Zarqowi and the following raids was a major blow to Al Qaeda. Bush and the troops deserve kudos.
Might as well put the negative up first as to put it in there at all.
But it may go up more.
No, the MSM could take the year off and Bush could do it himself by kissing another liberal's a$$ or by pushing one of his liberal ideas.
I missed the part of the poll that asked "Will your approval last?"
Once in the 80s.
But remember, a poll of 1000 people or less represents about 200,000,000 people.
So there's a good chance that you won't ever be called.
You know...I am really sick of hearing about those darn polls. First, I have NEVER been polled nor do I know anyone whose ever been polled. Second, the President doesn't govern by polls so therefore they don't matter!
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