[rushmom]

one pretty good speech and look what he can do for himself. Is there a lesson here?

[trubluolyguy]

This is the President's highest Job Approval Rating in over a month

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I guess getting tough on your enemies both foreign and domestic tends to rally folks to your cause.

[I'mAllRightJack]

That's great news!...and

I am sure that only a small percentage of the population was even aware of this speech when this poll was produced.

[Old Flat Toad]

He could easily pick up 10 points by supporting the Minute Men.

Prolly another 10 by telling Teddy to sobber up.

[concerned about politics]

Reagan hit a low 29% while trying to free the Russians. Now, he's one of the most favored and popular presidents of all time.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

They didn't ask me, so bump it up one per cent further, already....

[Names Ash Housewares]

People love a fighter! Come on Bush. KEEP IT UP.
Facts are on OUR side. The President can rally the people like no other. He CAN do it. Just FIGHT FOR IT.

[PISANO]

Rassmussen has always had Bush 3 to 6 points higher than the more often quoted polls. He polls daily and it has been in the 40's for a few months now. It also seems to tic up on the weekends.

[Liberty Valance]

Luckily, the President uses only one poll. The last one was the first Tuesday of November, 2004.

Bush/Cheney '08

[MikeHu]

The fact of reality is that 50% of the people don't have an opinion one way or the other.

The percentage of people who actively follow political news is about 10% -- and almost all they know is what the news(papers) tell them, which is likely to be highly prejudicial.

So really, what the polls are doing is trying to determine how many people buy what the news organizations are trying to sell them.

They're forcing uninformed people to give opinions so they can be manipulated by whomever wants to.

All polls are flawed -- just as all multiple choice questions have to bias the answer. A good test-taker recognizes the answer can be found in the question. And the "answer" is what the test-designer thinks is the right answer.

The vaguer the question, the more uncertain the answer.

"Do I approve...?" is not a question an intelligent person goes around asking -- or answering. So the poll eliminates all intelligent people until the most manipulable are determined -- and produce poll results that mean nothing but what the poll-payer wants to say.

That is the current fad mass media regards as their Holy Grail. In another month or year, it will be some other gimmick. Maybe free cars if you subscribe to their newspapers.

The smarter polling organizations don't even bother to conduct the poll; they just collect the money and tell their clients what they want to hear.

[Soul Seeker]

Yep.

Everyone has missed our Cowboy President. He speaks and it jumps.

If the results want to be higher or longer lasting, he need to keep getting out there everyday and drive the truth home. It'll take awhile to overcome the propaganda, but we've got the Truth on our side.

[syriacus]

A valuable lesson has been learned.
Bush frees Muslims from oppression, and the Liberals and the French government don't.

[cake_crumb]

This can't be. The media's been touting Bush's "declining poll numbers" for almost a year now. By my calculations, his post-Scooter, pre-speech approval should have been around -50.

[carl in alaska]

Mostly because of:

Rapidily declining gasoline prices, and to a lesser extent the rising stock market.

[JulieRNR21]

GWB needs to do more of these speeches.......He must never again let the Dems bash him unanswered!

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?

[ohioWfan]

As one who takes polls with a proverbial grain of salt because of the warped numbers of Dems/Republicans they use, I still like the trend.

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......

[Dems_R_Losers]

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.

[bethtopaz]

It's about getting back to the basics -- everyone was waiting for this speech, loved it, and want to here MORE - and MORE OFTEN!!

[Logical me]

Now if the poll were taken using equal amounts of RATS and Republicans, and picked random, we should be with the President at about 65%. Polls are currently crap.

[dmc8576]

The Miers withdrawl turned this around. Had he stayed with her, his presidency would be effictively over. Now, he is out on the attack (great speech yesterday) and things will get back to normal. Now if only we could have a Republican Senate with a spine, things would be in good shape. I say keep Coburn, Brownback, Allen, and Santorum and get rid of the rest.