Where are the polling police?
A March 13 CBS News poll showed President Bush’s approval rating at 34 percent — unchanged from a February 28 CBS poll, despite a substantial increase in the number of Republicans polled relative to Democrats and independents. Conservative media figures attacked the earlier poll’s validity, arguing that CBS’ sample included a higher percentage of Democrats than they contended accurately reflected the general population. Now that CBS has released an updated poll showing that a roughly equal percentage of Democrats and Republicans produced the same approval rating for Bush, will the same media figures who denounced the prior poll report on the newest results?
Or as I said, see Thought #1 on Polling.
Don’t the weighted results have a 5 point spread between R/D?
I’m a conservative. Very conservative. And depending on the questions asked and HOW they were asked, I would be quite negative with Bush’s performance on a number of issues. I know I’m not alone in that sentiment, nor am I alone in stating that even with my problems with Mr. Bush, it would be a cold day in hell before I would ever consider voting for anyone with a worldview as negative and distorted as what I read here.
I find it rather amusing that even with Mr. Clinton’s reported popularity and the near messianic fascination by Mr. Know-it-All and his sycophants here, that his coattails could not carry Mr. Gore to the presidency or gain majorities in either house. It should have been a landslide all around.
Keep watching those polls. I look forward to ‘06 and ‘08.
Any party is in trouble when it loses approval from it’s traditional supporters.
I think the simple answer is, no.
Such never explain, more rarely apologize.
Sam,
Thanks to our ’so called librule’ media, we have ‘King Bush’. I am so sick of hearing about you so called conservatives saying crap like “that his[Clintons] coattails could not carry Mr. Gore to the presidency”.
The media kept the 2000 election close. The Supreme Court gave it Bush.
Just thank whatever god you worship that you got exactly what you wanted in Bush, not once but twice.
Meanwhile, the rest of us suffer …
Liberals don’t expect arch conservatives to vote for liberal Democrats. They just expect arch conservatives to stay home on Election Day as a protest. Liberal Democrats stayed home on Election Day in 1994 and it helped produced the GOP landslide. Conservatives stayed home in 1992 and it helped Clinton and the Dems in Congress (outside the South).
Sam raises an interesting point. Many conservatives are disappointed in Bush but are never going to vote for a Democrat. Instead, they seem to be taking the position that Bush isn’t a “real” conservative and appear to be waiting for a more true conservative candidate to support. They may not stay home at all if such a candidate appears.
Locally (Houston), we just had our primary elections. If I’m not mistaken, an arch conservative former talk radio station owner and host overwhelmingly won in the Republican primary for a state senate seat. The ads for just about every other candidate for other offices also made a point of mentioning how conservative they were. I know Texas is skewed, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out nationwide.
“I would ever consider voting for anyone with a worldview as negative and distorted as what I read here.”
Indeed. You’d only vote for someone who trumpeted their lack of experience and knowledge of Washington as a positive. Then when that person turns out to be a total incompetent you’d maybe be critical of him depending on who was asking before taking yet another jab at Clinton. Typical conservative, always at the ready not to take responsibility for their actions.
Fear is not on the march.
Fear has been a constant companion of the GOP since 9/11.
Fear has been the best ally the White House has.
Fear keeps the sheep in line.
I would ever consider voting for anyone with a worldview as negative and distorted as what I read here.
Where is the dripping optimism from the Republican party?
You are in danger.
You are in danger.
You have nothing to fear.
You are in danger.
That’s what I’ve been hearing.
Fear is on the march!
There are 30-35% of the voting public that will support Bush no matter what. The hardcore knee-jerk Democrat-haters like Sam are becoming marginalized by Bush’s extreme unpopularity. Like duggerpedro and hedleyfrank, he will not be dissuaded by failed Republican policy, or mere White House incompetence, or corruption.
Senator Harkin:
We have a President who likes to break things. He has broken the federal budget, running up $3 trillion in new debt. He has broken the Geneva Conventions, giving the green light to torture. He has repeatedly broken promises and broken faith with the American people. And now, worst of all, he has broken the law.
In brazen violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), he ordered the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. And, despite getting caught red-handed, he refuses to stop.
Let’s be clear: No American and that must include the President is above the law. And if we fail to hold Bush to account, then he will be confirmed in his conviction that he can pick and choose among the laws he wants to obey. This is profoundly dangerous to our democracy.
So it is time for Congress to stand up and say enough! That’s why, this week, Senator Russ Feingold proposed a resolution to censure George W. Bush for breaking the FISA law. And that’s why I fully support this resolution of censure.
Nothing is more important to me than the security of our country. Of course, we need to be listening to the terrorists’ conversations. And sometimes there is not time to get a warrant. That’s why the FISA law allows the President, when necessary, to wiretap first, and obtain a warrant afterward. But that’s not acceptable to this above-the-law President. He rejects the idea that he should have to obtain a warrant before or after wiretapping.
We have an out-of-control President whose arrogant and, now, illegal behavior is running our country into the ditch. It’s time to rein him in. And a fine place to start is by passing this resolution of censure. I hope that Senator Feingold’s measure will be brought to the floor. And when it is, I will proudly vote yes.
Yeah, talk to your fellow Democrats about that since they’re the ones preventing the vote.
Yes, I wish the Democrats in the Senate would reflect the beliefs of the American people, a plurality of whom favor censure of the president.
http://americanresearchgroup.com/