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News events give Bush 'dead cat bounce' in polls
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 24, 2006 | Julie Mason

Posted on 06/25/2006 1:53:17 PM PDT by drellberg

"White House officials hoping for a bounce in the polls from the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and President Bush's surprise trip to Baghdad are having to make do with a flat line.

Bush's performance rating has been statistically unchanged in some polls and up maybe 2 percentage points in others."

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; deadcats; jobapproval; polls
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Bush's average poll numbers, recorded on RealClearPolitics.com, show 39% approval. That's nothing to brag about, but hardly the disaster that his critics assert. After 5+ years in office, it should come as no surprise that public opinion moves slowly. Who would expect otherwise? And the polls clearly show Bush moving SLOWLY upward.

The naysayers claim that Bush is not benefitting from the strong trends in his favor in recent months. He has clearly had his approval eroded from the right over immigration. The fact that he is still up a bit in the polls indicates a relatively strong rebound from the political center. And considering that opinions move more slowly than day-to-day events, we can expect him to gain more ground in the weeks and months ahead.

1 posted on 06/25/2006 1:53:20 PM PDT by drellberg
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To: drellberg

They keep asking the same stupid people the same stupid question, and continue to get the same stupid answers.


2 posted on 06/25/2006 1:54:53 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: drellberg
One of my more liberal friends who hates Bush was actually not happy with the sinking approval ratings.

When I asked him why, he answer made me think.

"We're knocking him down, but after awhile, its going to start to look like bullying and then people are going to start feeling sorry for him and we're going to start looking bad".

His example was that it happened with Bill Clinton. Its a bad example, but it did make think about it.

3 posted on 06/25/2006 1:55:43 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: drellberg
fact is this...while the poll numbers are meaningless no major polling service tied in with the criminal liberal media- the ones who tout the President's "catastrophic polling numbers" on a weekly basis- have come out with a single poll since Zarqawi was eliminated....
4 posted on 06/25/2006 1:56:42 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: xcamel

are these the people who refer to bin laden as binnie


5 posted on 06/25/2006 1:56:55 PM PDT by italianquaker (Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
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To: drellberg
The Drive By Media is working hard to minimize the good news. Its back to doom and gloom all the time. That's why I don't watch the network news or read the big city newspapers. I can't stand their constant negativism and I'm just happier when I enjoy life. Liberals aren't much fun to hang around.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

6 posted on 06/25/2006 1:58:00 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: drellberg

I don't think Bush is running in a single race this year. But he can still raise money like no one before him. Poor wiberals, whaaaaaa !


7 posted on 06/25/2006 1:59:37 PM PDT by John Lenin (The RAT party is still Stuck on Stupid)
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To: drellberg

He'd get a good bounce if he'd follow these things up with being a true conservative and attacking immigration and the budget in an appropriate manner.

As it is, he has had some nice events occur, but there's been no shift in action.


8 posted on 06/25/2006 2:01:15 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: drellberg
The implication in the MSM is that "disapproval" of a Bush job performance equals desire to elect liberal democrats, and to support their policies.

I suspect that if Bush came out against guest worker programs and strictly for border enforcement, his approval would go up 5-10%. Plainly a conservative element.

Further, if you look at American opinion on the issues, it ends up roughly supporting the Bush policies on most, such as Iraq. But the media will keep showing you a hindsight poll that many Americans think the Iraq war was a "mistake". But ask what they want done now, and most describe the Bush policy.

9 posted on 06/25/2006 2:02:49 PM PDT by Williams
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White House officials hoping for a bounce in the polls from the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and President Bush's surprise trip to Baghdad




I'd like to know where they got that from... I doubt the Administration cares, given this is the President's second term...


10 posted on 06/25/2006 2:04:38 PM PDT by oolatec
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To: drellberg
News events give Bush 'dead cat bounce' in polls

Whatever...there seems to bricks in the Democrats balloon.

11 posted on 06/25/2006 2:04:56 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: drellberg

Forget poll numbers. They'll slowly inch up until he leaves office, but they'll never be over 50% again (unless he serves up bin Laden's head on a platter on live television).


12 posted on 06/25/2006 2:10:25 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
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To: drellberg

Congressional job approval at historic lows. 25.8% approval, 63% disapproval. Intelligent people know that congress is the problem.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/archive/?poll_id=18#data
In the media rush to trash conservatives, Republicans, and the presidency; they are highlighting the failures of congress and congressional "leadership".


13 posted on 06/25/2006 2:13:05 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)
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To: Sonny M

What happened with Caligula was that the MSM actually chastized itself for going to hard on him and focused on "what his family was being put through" (never mind that he brought it all on himself by cheating on his wife and then lying under oath about it). The sympathy bounce that Clinton got was completely media-generated. They can do that, y'know.


14 posted on 06/25/2006 2:15:43 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: drellberg
The MSM is busy playing their last hand, outright treason. Witness this last leak/treason/story by the NY Times. Jack Murtha spits out his final inanity, and condems the US for being a greater threat to peace than Iran or North Korea. Why? Because Bush's decline in the polls stems from his conservative base's diaffection with his spending and immigration policies, NOT because of the WOT, as the leftist MSM wants us to belive, and continuously and fraudulently repeats ad nauseum.

This is having its toll, in the form of a backlash. Add to that the factual evidence that Bush's plan IS working, that there not only were but ARE WMDs in Iraq, that Iran cannot be negotiated with, the North Korean crisis is a direct result of Democrat stupidity, etc. etc. etc. and we have what one could expect, the reversal of fortune many have expected. We don't believe the propagandistic lies of the Democrat talking points authors, and time has a way of exposing these baseless lies to more and more people. Time is the Democrats enemy, and Bush's friend.

15 posted on 06/25/2006 2:17:42 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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To: Sonny M

The only thing that happened with Bill Clinton is that the economy was humming, and most ppl decided a hummer wasn't reason enough to upset the apple cart.


16 posted on 06/25/2006 2:20:33 PM PDT by Huck (Hey look, I'm still here.)
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To: Williams
Only moonbats on the left want us to leave Iraq immediately.

If a Democrat gets elected in 2008, I doubt that they wil withdraw all of the troops from Iraq. If someone like Al Gore or John F. Kerry is the Democratic candidate, they will lose, period.

America is still a proud country and we're going to elect someone who is a winner.

17 posted on 06/25/2006 2:21:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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To: Williams

"I suspect that if Bush came out against guest worker programs and strictly for border enforcement, his approval would go up 5-10%."

It would make him look like a flip flopper. Like it or not his best feature is his stay the course attitude. That's why people respect him and why he has had as much success as he has had.


18 posted on 06/25/2006 2:27:05 PM PDT by spikeytx86 (Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by there fruity little club.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"...and we're going to elect someone who is a winner."

I would advise you not to bet your house on that. After all, we all remember Jimmy Carter...

19 posted on 06/25/2006 2:28:22 PM PDT by Russ
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To: Gordongekko909
Yes, for liberal democrats all of their malfeasance in office is viewed from their personal perspective. We are expected to love and care about them and their families.

A republican in office is never treated this way. he is viewed as a miscreant, violating his duty to the public at large.

Good examples would be Clinton: Clear charges of rape, molestation, illegality, etc. Then take Packwood: He was even a liberal republican, a single man, run out of office for "flirting" with single women.

20 posted on 06/25/2006 2:30:43 PM PDT by Williams
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