[DrDeb]

Save your sanity and avoid the partisan media, including FoxNews.

The only Fox shows/personalities that I watch any more are Fox & Friends (for Steve and Brian), and Brit Hume! [O'Reilly is an arrogant flip flopper who has become a shill for Kerry, and Colmes makes me nauseous!]

To remain informed AND energized, listen to Rush, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mike Gallagher, Laura Ingram, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, and/or Michael Medved!

FYI: I made the mistake of listening briefly to OReilly tonight, only to hear him (and Dick Morris) completely misrepresent the President's poll numbers!

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S APPROVAL RATINGS IS THAT THEY HAVE REMAINED STABLE DESPITE DICKIE CLARKE, THE PDB MEMO, AND THE INCREASED VIOLENCE IN IRAQ! Republicans/Republican leaners continue to support him with virtual unanimity and Democrats/Democrat leaners continue to oppose him (although in slightly lower percentages than those that support him). The 5-7% of voters who are genuinely undecided will remain so until October! SO STOP WORRYING!!!!

POLLING UPDATES FROM THE ONLY TWO POLLS THAT MATTER RIGHT NOW:

GALLUP POLL

GWB approval
4/05-08/04 52% approve 45% disapprove (+7)
3/26-28/04 53% approve 44% disapprove
3/05-07/04 49% approve 48% disapprove

Match-up w/Kerry
Likely Voters
4/05-08/04 Bush 48% Kerry 45% (+3)
3/26-28/04 Bush 51% Kerry 47%
3/05-07/04 Bush 44% Kerry 52% (-8)


RASMUSSEN
1,500 likely voters (4 pt schemata vs standard approve/disapprove)

4/9-11/04 53% approve 47% disapprove (+6)
[NOTE: This approval rating represents an 8 point improvement from early last week. This same poll gives the President a +2 advantage over Kerry after a -6 pt disadvantage early last week!]


BOTTOMLINE: The President remains in GOOD shape politically! However, we should still regard him as the underdog in November! WHY? Because the left controls academia (K-12 and college), the electronic and print media, the entertainment industry (Hollywood, TV, music), large swaths of the internet, organized labor, and the major urban centers. They will use ALL to their advantage in November! We must counter with the media we do control as well as an unprecedented grassroots effort! BY WORKING HARDER AND SMARTER THAN OUR OPPONENTS, WE WILL PREVAIL!!!

[altura]

Good advice about avoiding the media. Will try to take it.

With all the entities on the left that you mention, it's a wonder any conservative gets elected.

But two things make me optimistic.

Bush was elected against an incumbent VP when he wasn't that familiar a figure in the country ('cept for Texas)

Kerry is even duller and nastier than algore.

[Mo1]

Good numbers there .. and just think if Kerry would stop having body parts repaired and talks more .. those numbers will go up even more :0)

[Mudboy Slim]

"The President remains in GOOD shape politically! However, we should still regard him as the underdog in November!"

If Dubyuh energizes the RightWing base with programs that devolve power outta DeeCee and back to the States, Localities, and Individuals (i.e. School Vouchers, Medical savings Accounts, Personal Retirement Accounts, etc.), Bush wins in an '84-style landslide!!

Kerry's THAT bad...MUD

[Darlin']

O'Reilly has become insufferable. I heard about a minute of that segment with Dick Morris before I could get off the phone and to the remote. He was infuriating.

On the local evening news, I heard the results of a state wide poll of 700 registered voters in Louisiana. The polling agency was Southern Media, at this time, President Bush would with 53% of the vote to Kerry's 38%.