"Patience patience my disciples! My time has come! I will rule! I can finally turn the USA into France."
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Posted on 08/24/2003 6:07:43 AM PDT by truthandlife
The majority of American voters would not like to see President Bush re-elected to another term according to a poll by Newsweek magazine.
The survey released Saturday showed that 49 percent of registered voters would not back the president for a second term if the vote were held now. Forty-four percent would support Mr. Bush's re-election.
The poll marked the first time in a Newsweek survey that supporters of Mr. Bush were out-numbered by those who would not like to see him back remain in office. In April, 52 percent of voters backed the president for a second term, while 38 percent did not.
The Newsweek report attributed the decline in the president's popularity to public disenchantment over the Iraq war. The poll found 69 percent of respondents said they were concerned that the United States will be bogged down for many years in Iraq without achieving its goals there.
Nearly half of those polled said they were concerned that the cost of the war will lead to a large budget deficit and seriously impact the U.S. economy. And more than half said they thought the estimated $1 billion per week the United States is paying for the war effort is too much and should be scaled back.
However, 61 percent still believe the United States was right to take military action against Iraq in March.
Only 18 percent of those polled believe a stable, democratic government can be set up in Iraq in the long term. And only 13 percent of respondents said U.S. efforts to establish security in Iraq and rebuild the country have gone well since May 1, when combat officially ended.
The Newsweek poll results are based on telephone interviews with more than one thousand adults aged 18 and older. It was conducted on August 21 and 22. The margin of error is plus or minus three percent.
Yeppurs. The proper term here is "plurality", as in "Bill Clinton was elected twice to the White House with a plurality, and never won a majority." It's pretty pathetic that Newsweak can't even get the terminology correct.
Or maybe it's the fact that they used for their poll a list of likely Democrat voters.....????
Kind of....Look at it this way, despite your pension, everyone's portfolio has taken a giant hit since the market collapsed in March 2000, joblessness is up, raises are not great, everyone in the business world is chirping about how soft the economy is, only recently have economic indicators begun to show mild upticks and .....On top of all that, Alan Greenspan keeps trying to jump start the economy, or at least keep it from slipping back into stagnancy. So true or not in your eyes, Bush is at risk.
I am in the same situation as you are, but then I am not in manufacturing where outsourcing is very real and is taking away the middle class jobs that Bush needs to stay here so those folks (they are the ones who like it when we do the right thing , like going into Iraq) will vote for him. Bush's position right now is very precarious if you ask me. People at this site tend to look at things with a very jaundiced eye when it comes to polling. I am as right winged and conservative as they come, but if you eliminate all the chatter here and look at enough polling data, Bush is slipping....Newsweek, California has him below 50% since the Iraq war, Zogby.....forget about whether they are 100% correct, his numbers are slipping and that is what the consensus of all these polls reveals.
I agree with your points except this one. A steel manufacturing base is considered a military issue more than a commercial one.
One thing that could have saved us from klintoon would have been a full investigation into Iran/Contra/Mena. Not much of a downside either. We would have avoided Bush1 and klintoon, and gone a long way towards cleaning up our government.
And one of the biggest things, people are just foaming at the mouth about this, is the overtime rules change. I can make a conservative philosophical argument why that's the right thing to do. From a political and P.R. standpoint, I can't put into words how stupid I think that move is, especially a year before the election.
Now, I personally do not believe you can lay economic problems totally at the feet of the president of the U.S., whether it's Bush I and II, Clinton or Millard Fillmore, because I think business cycles are beyond human control. But rightly or wrongly, people think the guy in the Oval Office is the one responsible for making things right. Not Greenspan, not the Treasury Secretary, but the president. And I know things are turning around, but how fast are they going to turn around? Again, I realize it's not going to happen overnight, but I think this country has collective ADHD when it comes to patience.
"Patience patience my disciples! My time has come! I will rule! I can finally turn the USA into France."
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1776 - 2005 |
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THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF THE AMERICAS 2005- |
The Rodham tax reduction plan.
Check the archives here for threads on this ... I've participated in some, and you'll find that I'm not alone in my opinion even among Freepers.
But hey, I forgot. Everything is fine, everything is hunky dory, the Dems are in disarray and Bush is going to run the table next year, winning every state, this is just the liberal socialist media messing with our minds, move along, there's nothing to see here, break out the Kool-Aid.
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