- Bush's approval rating is higher in this poll than it has been since early January 2006.
- The party demographics are 33% Dem, 34% Republican and 30% Independent (which is MUCH closer to typical actual voting results that other MSM polls)
- The bottomline in this poll is that the basic numbers for each question haven't shifted much in all the years they've been asked. That is significant because the MSM keep trying to tell us that there is a huge wave of dissatisfaction affecting voters this year that will have a major impact on elections. There is absolutely ZERO evidence of that in this poll.
Actually the poll history shows that there was a bump/dip in early October, post Foleygate, that drove down GOP identification.
It seems that *all* polling numbers got worse for GOP - for a while ... and he media took that to be general dissatisfaction ... but they are coming home.
Bush's RV approvals are now not much difference from August 2005, ie, pre-Katrina and a lot more.
Support for war in Iraq, similarly, has steadied out, as has the 'who is better, DEM or GOP, to lead?' ...
DeWine was done double digits in polls a few weeks back and is now a lot closer... every other poll is "close" in the Senate races the dems want to pick up.