"They're saying that the drop in Bush's numbers are due to CONSERVATIVES. If these people stay home to punish the President and give us years of dem control, they will surely rot in someplace warm."
I think part of that is true, and I suspect primarily due to immigration and securing our borders as well as not controlling spending for pork. The Prez mentioned in his speech the other day that congress needs to control spending, etc to keep the economy on track and threatened a veto. If Congress pushes him on that and he does veto a bill w addt'l $$s, I think his poll #s will go up.
Also, they're not mentioning the slight RISE in the Prez's poll numbers this last week (FNC mentioned it during the week). The MSM uses their polls, showing a 33% or 36% approval).
Most don't seem to use Rasmussen, which polls more people and has Bush's rating a bit more consistent (only up or down a few points during the last year (Apr '05 48%, high in July '05 - 49%, Apr '06 - 40% (low); today: 43%). While the #s could be better, I expect them to go up a little after Tony Snow starts doing the pressers - - tomorrow (YAHOO!!). The MSM and Dims have been BASHING the admin and Prez for months, w little rebuttal and I think Tony is going to give them good rebuttal as well as getting the Prez to use the bullypulpit more.
Here's some poll info from Rasmussen (one of the only polling agencies that I think is relevant):
Presient Bush Job Approval Rating
Saturday May 06, 2006--Forty-three percent (43%) of Americans Approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President. That's up a couple of points from recent readings and it remains to be seen whether this is anything more than statistical noise. (review long-term trends).
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
Now there you go. Showin' out again. LOL!!!
Resolved, that in the future, as in the past, we will adhere with unswerving fidelity to the Union under the Constitution, as the only solid foundation of our strength, security, and happiness as a people, and as a framework of government equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity of all the States, both Northern and Southern.
Resolved, that this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the federal Union of the States.
Resolved, that the direct interference of the military authorities of the United States in the recent elections held in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware, was a shameful violation of the Constitution, and a repetition of such acts in the approaching election will be held as revolutionary, and resisted with all the means and power under our control.
Resolved, that the aim and object of the Democratic party are to preserve the federal Union and the rights of the States unimpaired ; and they hereby declare that they consider the administrative usurpation of extraordinary and dangerous powers not granted by the Constitution; the subversion of the civil by the military laws in States not in insurrection; the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment, trial, and sentence of American citizens in States where civil law exists in full force; the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press; the denial of the right of asylum; the open and avowed disregard of State rights; the employment of unusual test oaths, and the interference with and denial of the right of the people to bear arms in their defense, as calculated to prevent a restoration of the Union and the perpetuation of a government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed.
Resolved, that the shameful disregard by the administration of its duty in respect to our fellow-citizens who are now and have long been prisoners of war in a suffering condition, deserves the severest reprobation on the score alike of public policy and common humanity.
Resolved, that the sympathy of the Democratic party is heartily and earnestly extended to the soldiers of our army and the seamen of our navy, who are and have been in the field under the flag of their country; and, in the event of its attaining power, they will receive all the care, protection, and regard that the brave soldiers and sailors of the republic have so nobly earned.
Oh, by the way, that's the Democrat Party platform of 1864.