FDR kept morale high during WW2 with frequent 'Fireside Chats'.......Bush needs to create something similar.
How about 'Remarks from the Ranch' with GWB in cowboy boots & hat?
Posted on 11/12/2005 9:45:28 AM PST by jmc1969
Forty-six percent (46%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Fifty-three percent (53%) of Americans Disapprove of the President's performance.
This is the President's highest Job Approval Rating in over a month.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Rapidily declining gasoline prices, and to a lesser extent the rising stock market.
Yep. Even the accusations are basically the same: deficit spending, irresponsible spending causing not enough (gubmint) resources, unilateralist, cowboy and moron to name a few. Even Wilson/Plame/WMD/Libbygate is just a jumped up version of Iran Contra...which was supposed to be Reagan's "Watergate".
It doesn't matter how many grad schools you've gone to.
What does the word "approve" mean? It means entirely different things to every individual. And the more intelligent , thoughtful and scientific the person, the less likely he is ever to use such words.
Do I approve of 2 + 2 = 4?
That's all liberalspeak and think -- biasing the respondents. Intelligent people will just hang up on such bogus polling and meaningless questions.
Yep. Zogby was interviewed on Fox and said to always add 5 points to the Republican side, because Republicans are most apt to hang up on the pollsters - that is if the pollsters are lucky enough to catch them!
The mass media needs to go back to their glory days when they could just dynamite cars in the safety crash test.
At least then they were amusing.
FDR kept morale high during WW2 with frequent 'Fireside Chats'.......Bush needs to create something similar.
How about 'Remarks from the Ranch' with GWB in cowboy boots & hat?
My guess is that you should add about 10 points to all of them and you'd be closer to the true numbers. (And subtract at least 10 from any for xlinton).
Good news in any case......
This poll is over a 3 day period. If it was just the speech, it won't be evident until next week. If you go to the website you'll also see how the president has a 60% approval rating with veterans, and yet Kennedy and Kerry said it was regrettable he gave this speech on Veteran's Day. It's only regrettable for them. I've only heard praise from the veterans I know about the president's speech. I suspect these numbers will go up.
The Alito nomination is popular. Gas prices are coming down. Unemployment remains low. Bush's rating was bound to come up some. The Katrina debacle is wearing off in people's minds too. In December, Congress will be gone and the Iraqi elections will be the big story, not the war dead. His approval rating should jump pretty substantially by then.
No......they aren't. They're inflated when a Dem is President, and grossly deflated when a Republican is President.......especially a strong one like President Bush.
btw....didn't they teach you to capitalize the letter "I" in grad school? :)
Oh........and welcome to FR (today??) I'm always fascinated when people sign up just to say that bogus, leftist media polls are accurate......
"It also seems to tic up on the weekends."
I read somewhere where they compared responses to polling based on days of the week. If I recall correctly, they said you get more Dems on Friday night, more Repubs on the weekend.
Are we to assume his speaking out and then a bomb going off behind his office is a coincidence? Either way, all the more reason for our reps to be out in front of the cameras.
I agree with everything you said. The President needs to fight back. Yesterday was a great first step. He needs to hammer the Dems and put them on the defensive. He needs to tout the economy and the successes on the war on terror. He needs to pormote the Patriot Act and state that because of it there has not been one terrorist attack since 9/11. He needs to remind people of the threat we face.
Like you said Alito, Gas prices, and the economy are all moving in our favor. By this time next year, if all goes well we will be in great shape.
Even in a democracy, leadership is not just a popularity contest.
Some things are factual, and some things are opinions.
People who are effective, tend to be in touch with factuals. People who are dysfunctional, are tyrannized by opinions -- not of their own, but of others.
What liberals and the mass media tries to do, is superimpose the tyranny of opinions over the realm of facts and realities. Dysfunctional and ineffective people think that modifying just the perception is the same as modifying the actuality -- and so thats all they do -- try to manipulate your opinions rather than the actualities.
And they want us to buy into their reality. The mass media is a mass illusion.
Amen, CB!
You could not be more correct.Bloggers, Talk Radio are doing their part to defend W's war agenda plus even some of his conserv issues. It is now time for the spineless Pub leadership, Frist, Hastert, and other Committee chairs to defend the Prez and our war against Islamofascism. The RINO's defection on ANWR has to be countered with severe reprimands by writers, our media, and bloggers plus Congressional rebuttals. Those listed by Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin on their blogs must be contacted by all of us and blasted for their un-Republican stances.
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