Unnamed Democrat Edges Bush In '04, Quinnipiac Poll Most Americans Are Not Satisfied With Life Today

Quinnipiac ^ | 3/6/03

[Lee Heggy]

"Most Americans Are Not Satisfied With Life Today."

Yeah, don'tcha miss the good old days...the Klan, no woman's sufferage, the workhouses, Tammany Hall, child labor, dysentry and cholera, really painful dentistry and high mortality in childbirth.

...yeah, the days when you could step on a rusty nail and get tetanus and die any time you wanted. THAT was real freedom.

[Dan from Michigan]

I don't know what's going to happen in 2006, but there are three things to remember.
1. Electoral college
2. Bush squeaked by in 2000
3. ECONOMY.

[Dont Mention the War]

This poll is methodologically bankrupt. To give you an idea of how "randomly selected" their pollees are, I get called by them to answer questions like clockwork once a month. That alone makes this poll completely worthless, and explains why it's a total outlier that is giving different results than practically every other poll out there.

Put more bluntly, this poll is CRAP. It's a bunch of undergrads learning how to become accurate pollsterwsers, but haven't quite gotten it down yet. This should be tossed in the circular file.

[amexmike]

the Truth: They got all 1207 surveys taken yesterday during the "day-off" protests at the University. Then released the poll today.

[cactusSharp]

can't stop that......Hillary HAS to run in'04 becuase she must get the justice dept records against her and hubbie
they didn't pardon Marc Rich to get to heaven.....

and imagine Hillary's ass in '08 as a first run

[MississippiMan]

Sadly, there are many voters who will fall for it.

You bet there are. As you pointed out, we should never forget that this country elected Bill Clinton not once, but twice, and by a much larger margin the second time after it was apparent to anyone with a brain what he was. Doesn't matter that the Republicans put Dole up against him—people with a conscience shouldn't have voted for him no matter who his opponent was. And people who did that will do anything.

The only thing that gives me any hope of keeping her out of the White House is that perhaps many older Democrat voters aren't quite ready for a woman as president. That may be enough to tip the scales. Maybe.

MM

[areafiftyone]

I am getting more and more convinced that 2008 is going to be Hillary's run! She is becoming more powerful in the Senate because the democreeps are letting her. All she needs is a few more years under her belt and then she will run.

[rs79bm]

Oh Boy!!! An unnamed Democrat. We should be scared now!!!

[Notwithstanding]

amen

but i think it is more like MEGA-YICK

this is the dims Bob Dole election cycle - they just aint gots nobody who is viable

[JohnHuang2]

From February 26 - March 3, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,232 American voters, with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percent. 

An ABCNEWS/Washington Post Poll, conducted during the same period, pegs Bush's job approval much higher, at 62%.

[RobbyS]

Juan and Evita own a considerable bloc of the Democratic vote. This group votes against Bush 100% on very occasion.

[areafiftyone]

MEET THE UN-NAMED DEMOCREEP!

[Notwithstanding]

The biassed author implies that people would prefer ANYONE but Bush.

But the real story is that people would prefer to BUsh to ANYONE the dims have to offer.

[meyer]

The upcoming war is obviously a kicker, but absent that, it really is the economy.......

Yes, you are right. Unfortunately, most voters don't have a grasp at the simple concept of supply and demand. Thus they didn't (and still don't) recognize a hyperactive economy like that of the late 1990's that was based on overextended credit and speculation, much like that of the 1920's. Oh, granted, they do know plenty of their personal economy, but they either cannot or don't wish to grasp the big picture.

This poll does illustrate that the liberal media's continued attack on the economy is gaining traction. We're not in a recession, and yet they call it one. The overall market's primary downward force is both the uncertainty as related to the Iraq situation, and the correction from the late 1990's when "artificial exuberance" was king. What magnifies the idea that the economy is in sad shape is that the liberals are selectively using the stock market as the only indicator of economic strength while they talk things down.

Perception outranks reality.

[The Wizard]

can you spell h-o-r-s-e-s-h-i-t

[epow]

in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and nationwide as a public service and for research.

Well DUHH! Of course Bush would lose in those bastions of socialistic dementia. Now let them take a poll is some states south of the Mason-Dixon line and see how their beloved Hitlery makes out.

I think it's great that the two top Dem vote-getters are Hitlery and Lieberman. I can't help but believe she is the most hated woman in America, outside CA and the NE at least, and Lieberman has all the charisma and voter appeal of a TX horned toad. Millions of people who have never voted before in their entire lives would turn out in a raging blizzard to vote against Hitlery.

Most people instinctively like Bush even if they don't agree with some of his agenda. It's fact that a large percentage of people vote for who they like as a person, not whose programs or politics they most agree with. Bush will mop the floor with any of the Dems listed in this worthless poll.

[Dane]

Two years into Sinkmaster's Presidency, polls said Bob Dole would defeat Bill Clinton in 1996, and President Reagan's approval rating was under 40% in 1982. We all know what happened.

Exactly, although a lot of people on this thread will be getting the vapors.

Polls are a snapshot in time and right now the times are uncertain, when the war is won, things will get back to normal. Oil prices will sink and the stock market should rise considerably.

Capital spending held back because of uncertainty will give a boost to the economy after the war, IMHO.

[skinkinthegrass]

Typical Liberal WET...dream...America's Terror

[RJCogburn]

I agree that the economy is not as bad off as the left would have us believe, but there are significant problems with unemployment and under employment that certainly creates a visceral as well as intellectual reaction. Interest rates can't get much lower, refinancing will have to run its course eventually and that may effect consumer spending and send things worse.

I'm no economist or expert, but that visceral 'sense' of how things are, regardless of fact will influence a bunch of people's votes.