Zogby has Bush at 45%; disapproval at 54% - gimme your thoughts

Zogby International ^ | Sep 6 | Zogby

[GodfearingTexan]

I guess this was posted before, but I never saw it. Can you smart people out there tell me what you make of this? Thanks.

[funkywbr]

Well when you lump into one bucket FAIR (pleasing, just, regular) AND POOR, well figure it out yourself!~}

[Porterville]

Arab lies....

[Dane]

Certainly not an unqualified positive endorsement

Also not certainly an unqualified negative endorsement either.

[Coop]

Let's go against the numbers and say this Zogby poll is accurate. So what? Bush is raking in the dough, and he's got fourteen months until election time.

The Impeached Rapist and President Reagan were in the mid 40s approval range around this same time in their terms. Neither one of them had problems with re-election, although admittedly Perot gave the Rapist some help.

[DrDeb]

For some much needed perspective, read the following article from Roll Call:

No Comparison: Bush Poll Numbers Beat Bill Clinton's
http://www.rollcall.com/pub/49_20/winston/2750-1.html

[Eala]

The problem with Zogby is that he post the people that respond with "Fair" with those who respond with "Poor." Most people think of "fair" as being a positive rating, but not Zogby.

I saw this done on television right before Bush's speech. I couldn't believe they were actually trying to pull that off -- and that they kept on it until after Bush started speaking...

[steve86]

Certainly not an unqualified positive endorsement

Also not certainly an unqualified negative endorsement either.

Yes, those two together sum up the definition of fair pretty well.

[LS]

Doh! The 9 dwarves have me totally focused on 04. In "O2 he wasn't as accurate." OK?

[brewcrew]

I asked the question rhetorically, i.e., unless you wanted to be able to spin the results like a merry-go-round on steroids, why even include a nebulous polling word like "Fair?" I think we all know where Mr. Zogby's loyalties lie.

[zencat]

Gallup has Bush approval between 58-60%. Zogby has it at 45% but counts "fair" as disapproval. So 13%-15% of people believe Bush is doing a fair job. Add that to to the approval rating in this poll, and subtract from the negative. That should get you closer to the real numbers.

The poll is garbage designed to give the sensationalist liberal media something to talk about.

[holdmuhbeer]

Zogby is probably right, whether freepers want to believe it or not. this joblessness in the country is really starting to piss people off.

[steve86]

are pollsters like zogby affected by the no-call list?

I believe they are excluded

[glock rocks]

oh, it's okay... I do that all the time.

the voices told me to ask if you were a fellow time traveller :o)

[Coop]

Zogby is probably right, whether freepers want to believe it or not. this joblessness in the country is really starting to piss people off.

Of course you mean FReepers and all those other pollsters. Yeah, we're just frickin' outraged that the economy has been improving for many months.

[Dan from Michigan]

Economy.

[Dan from Michigan]

Zogby called the 2000 race nationwide.

[holdmuhbeer]

Yeah, we're just frickin' outraged that the economy has been improving for many months.

think what you want, but the jobless numbers just keep going up.

[Dane]

A very relevant passage from your link in your reply #45, DrDeb.

A second set of numbers has also been getting a lot of attention lately — the re-elect question. In Newsweek’s Aug. 21 survey, it found that 44 percent wanted to see Bush re-elected while 49 percent did not. Democrat talking heads have rushed to crow that these numbers prove Bush is highly vulnerable. They’ve apparently forgotten that in November 1995, Clinton’s re-elect was 36 percent for/51 percent against. Bush still runs 8 points ahead of Clinton in this question of dubious predictive value.

[Wolfstar]

My thought about this is simple: SCREW THE POLLS. If we don't reelect this great President, we're NUTS! If we put the likes of any of the nine Dem dwarfs into the presidency — or worse yet, the wife of the man whose criminal negligence of foreign policy led to 9/11/01 — this nation is finished. We will all be in very grave danger, and we will not have a head of state who will do squat about it.

Slogan for the next election: WITHOUT SECURITY THERE IS NO ECONOMY.

[VU4G10]

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