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Poll Shows Bush's Ratings Weathering Business Scandals (Bush approval: 72%)
Washington Post ^
| 07/17/2002
| Richard Morin and Claudia Deane
Posted on 07/16/2002 8:29:40 PM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The recent barrage of congressional and media criticism directed at President Bush for his handling of the widening corporate financial scandal has failed to damage his popularity, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The survey found that Bush's job approval rating stands at 72 percent, virtually unchanged from a month ago. An equally large proportion of people still view the president as honest and trustworthy, despite recent news accounts that he benefited as a business executive from some of the same practices he now publicly criticizes.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; bushapproval; pollfraud; zogby; zogbyfraud
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To: Pokey78
bttt
161
posted on
07/17/2002 7:18:44 AM PDT
by
summer
To: billhilly
One thing that bugs me to this day. Bill Clinton screwed everyone in this country, and he wants us to believe Monica Lewenski was the exception. Yeah, and so was Gennifer, et. al.
Have you noticed lately that the media is no longer reporting the affair he is having with Naomi Campbell(?) (I get those tall girls all mixed up!) It was being talked about all over and now nothing. Hmmmm...I wonder if he has media connections and they are trying to cover it up so his lesbo wife can run in 2004?
To: billhilly
Didn't we all hear that the economy was controlled by Alan Greenspan during the eight years of the Clinton presidency. Hell, we even said it. Now, all of a sudden, old Greenspan has lateraled the ball to George W. and the cheering press are reporting that he is running toward the wrong goal. After re-reading your post I want to add, that Alan Greenspan is still controlling the economy, however, the President exerts enormous influence over the economy and as such has a responsibilty as a leader to set high personal standards that reflect his stand on various components of running our country. The power and influence that our elected leader has comes with enourmous responsibility. Obviously, Clinton is totally irresponsible which thus has a ripple effect (or in Billy's case a Tsunami effect) that isn't felt until after one leaves office. Remember how Reagan's policies didn't really have time to take hold until the end of his second term and after he left office? Reagan set Clinton up for economic success and as usual Clinton and his cronies blew it! It will be interesting to see the effects of President Bush on our nation during his second term in office and after that.
To: Torie
If only the public read FR (or the right of center 50% thereof), and learned the "truth" about Bush (compromising socialist at heart status quo type who traduces the constitution every day of the year), his ratings would fall to 30%.You sure ?
Question ...
How do you rate President Bush's overall job performance?Excellent - 37%
Good - 29%
Fair - 18%
Poor - 14%
No Comment - 1%
To: Kobyashi1942
Uhmmm...sorry to tell you this but the White House's own internal polling has the President in the high 50's. The scandals are taking their toll.One cannot compare one poll to another to determine trends. Without documentation of prior polls done by the WH your info (even if true) would be meaningless. For all we know the WH internal polls increased to the high 50's.
To: Howlin
Zogby just got B*T*HSLAPPED. Again. This morning, on Fox News (where else?) I heard an explanation of the difference between the Wash. Compost poll and Zogby's. Turns out that the Wash. Compost poll allows one of two answers - approve or disapprove.
The Zogby poll allows a range - excellent, good, fair, poor. Zogby lumps the "fair" answers with the "poor". If he put the "fair" answers with the excellent and good, the number goes to around 72%.
When I went to school, if you got "fair" you still passed. If you got "poor" you failed. So much for Zogby's "integrity".
To: Demidog
This is the same polling outfit that was lambasted by freepers for reporting high Clinton numbersAnd as it turned out Clinton's popularity stayed constant.
In any case its the trend of the poll that is significant. Even if the propularity is wrong the amount wrong should be consistant from one poll to another. The fact that there is no discernable change is the key to this poll.
To: Demidog
You're not confusing the word "weathering" for the similar sounding "withering" are you? FOFL .. Oh Geez I did .. sorry about the brain dead moment
168
posted on
07/17/2002 9:17:44 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: Pokey78
Why isn't a daily Bush-rating poll number posted everyday at Times Square? It apparently is the only thing that matters anymore...
To: Crossbow Eel
"He [Bush] has to keep the conservative issues under radar..."Nevermind "under radar" -- consevative issues have been kept in underground bunkers thus far.
To: Sabertooth
Bush needs to take out Sadam if he wants to wn the next election.
171
posted on
07/17/2002 11:09:48 AM PDT
by
stalin
To: Torie
I'm starting a dot com biz next year if all goes well. It's a conservative store. I'll put a link to Free Republic after getting permission. Maybe my customers will visit FR after their shopping carts are full. LOL
To: Southack
If the stock market continues to plummet, expect the Reps to lose control of the House.
Hey Southack - stay focused on the Dow Jones.
To: Tuco-bad
I'll tell you what, Tuco, you watch out for your limosine liberal friends' stock portfolios, and I'll watch out for unemployment, interest rates, and the productivity of our economy; then we'll see who does better in the election...
To: Pokey78
Maybe the American public isn't as stupid as it looks.
To: GraniteStateConservative
The one thing that may have life is Cheney and Haliburton.Please....Anything but Larry Klayman's "wet dream."
To: Pokey78
Even the left wing Washington ComPost poll shows Dubya sailing high with mid 70s approval. Zogby is destroying himself as a pollster. Couldn't happen to a better pali apologist for the terror regime that parades as the PLO. Bush rules!
To: Rome2000
And the "new economy" was a Bush thing, anyhow?
Doctor Spock: "That is not logical!"
178
posted on
07/17/2002 6:27:50 PM PDT
by
Bogie
To: Howlin
The American people are getting tired and bored of
the bashing of the President. That's why his poll
figures are in tact..They are beginning to beleive
that the "Liberal Socialist Democratic Party" is
full of "liberal" icons. I bet we could name them all day!
179
posted on
07/17/2002 6:29:32 PM PDT
by
HarryH
To: stalin; Sabertooth
From the Friday night roundtable of the Wall Street Journal-- "Forget about capturing Osama bin Laden, capture Saddam Hussein."
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