[AntiGuv]

PS. If you equalize the partisan breakdown of this poll at 34% GOP, 34% DEM, and 32% IND you get a Bush job approval rating of 36.20%.

[Beagle8U]

"and 32% IND "

When has there been many elections where 32% voted for independents in Congress?

Can you spell NEVER ?

The poll is meaningless for 2006.

[CyberAnt]

There is no justification for having 32% ind. That number just does not exist. There is no GREAT independent voter that's anywhere near the numbers of repubs or dems. If you think there is .. you're deceived.

That's another of the illusions the left has been perpetrating for years - the great "middle" - the only thing the "middle" does is sit on the fence - hold their finger in the wind and go with the flow .. that's some indepndence.

[NYC Republican]

PS. If you equalize the partisan breakdown of this poll at 34% GOP, 34% DEM, and 32% IND you get a Bush job approval rating of 36.20%.

That's what I keep telling folks here, and it falls on deaf ears! The oversampling of Dems, even by 10%, will take 3, maybe 4 points away from Bush's approval ratings, big deal.

No matter how you slice it, the figures are absolutely pathetic!