Grin...Deb, I can't speak for anyone else, but as for myself, I always ignore the polls. No one has ever given me a satisfactory explanation of why I should trust something that cannot be objectively verified as accurate against real-world criteria.
I don't know who came up with the concept of "presidential approval ratings," but do know it isn't found in the Constitution or any of our founding and governmental documents. It's some PR thing invented by some pollster or wag, and there is absolutely NO way to objectively guage its accuracy. Elections are our report cards. Polls that purport to be electoral guages are offensive to me.
BINGO Wolfstar - that is exactly the way I feel about polls and you put the thought together for me. One of the many reasons our last president was such a failure.....the constant checking of the poll winds. I wish Congress would take a page out of President Bush's book on "polls".