imported_tss4
Golden Member
🙂 Don't make me come over there!
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Bush's Approval Rating Tops 50 Percent in Latest Gallup Poll
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🙂 Don't make me come over there!
umbrella39
Lifer
Sock puppet.
dullard
Elite Member
This whole thread is funny. Why? Look at the numbers.
[*]In April, Gallup said the approval rating was somewhere between 49% and 55%.
[*]In May, Gallup said the approval rating was somewhere between 43% and 49%.
[*]In August, Gallup said the approval rating was somewhere between 48% and 54%.
Notice the margins of error? Notice also how an approval rating of 49% is consistant with ALL 3 points of data? Thus the contries opinion may not have changed at all during this time period! With no change at all, the posters above me go crazy (on either side). I just don't get it. Now if the data had a significant change, then I'd think you have something to complain about (for example: things getting worse and polls going up).
Gallup has one big flaw that I can see. It comes from the form of data collection - over the phone. The last time I checked, the poorest 5% of the country still don't have phones. Thus Gallup ignores the poorest of the poor. Also the upper middle class and above are much more likely to have 2 or more phone lines (for individual family members, for fax lines, for business use at home, for internet, etc). Thus the richer side is much more likely to get a phone call from a random caller (such as Gallup). At the moment, the ignored poor side generally votes democrat and the wealthier side generally votes republican. Thus, the two lopsided effects can easilly mislead the results 2-3% in the favor of the republicans.
Note: as the wealthy move more and more to broadband, part of this effect is diminishing. But they still are likely to have multiple phone lines for non-internet related reasons.
cKGunslinger
Lifer
FFS, dmcowen674! If one needed proof that number of posts and member status meant exactly jack-sh1t on this board, they'd have to look no further than you. I just assumed you were being facetious with all your "evil neocon" bits, giving you the benefit of the doubt because you somehow made the "Elite" cut, but it appears I grossly overestimated you. I have yet to see you contribute anything worthwhile to any recent thread, other than this tired phrase. Am I missing some larger joke? Did you lose a bet and get forced into posting useless garbage? Is it just a phase? WTF? I am genuinely curious.
umbrella39
Lifer
Something is rotten in Denmark with these recent Gallop polls. Who are they calling now-a-days? Bush's approval rating is and has been 8-10 points lower than Gallop is reporting today. Not buying it.
cKGunslinger
Lifer
😛
cKGunslinger
Lifer
Sorry, conjur, but Crimson has a point. What's with all the over-generalization and immaturity? Bush-God fanboi? Grow a brain? WTF? All Crimson was pointing out is your apparent arrogance in believing that Americans are blind and stupid if they support Bush. That's a little over-the-top, even for someone anti-Bush. It's just as valid for me to assume that the other 49% are just "blinded" by the Michael Moore's "brainwashing." Right? But you won't hear me say that, because it's an ignorant and useless argument, just like yours.
I never said it's not possible for me to ever be wrong. I've been wrong on many counts in the past. I was wrong to support Bush last year and I have now discovered the truth and am working to get this failed administration out of office.
Kerry just represents the best viable solution at this point.
Am I thrilled with Kerry? No.
Will I vote for Kerry? Yes. Having a Democratic President and Republican Congress will help restore some balance.
BTW, do you ever type more than one sentence or offer up any real thoughts or do you just bleat out one-liners that would make Hannity proud?
Oh, and just for you:
:roll: :roll:
TheGameIs21
Golden Member
So you have a problem with people in politics not being party line puppets? Because I don't agree with all that Bush has done doesn't mean that I think he is a failure. It just means that I don't agree 100% with him.
According to your logic stated above, any politician that is in the same party as the president that doesn't agree with him 100% is saying that the president at the time is a failure. That makes every president is a failure.
Wow.. you are so out of control its scary. Now apparently all conservatives can't think without listening to a rightwing radio host to tell them how to think. I think the reason rightwing hosts like Hannity, Limbaugh, etc exist is not because they TURN people conservative, is that they speak the conservative views that most of us have had all along. There is no brainwashing going on, the hosts are simply saying what we haven't heard from the leftwing media over the years, thus they get a following.
dmcowen674
No Lifer
Ha, don't the Neocons wish he was smart enough to that himself.
Thanks to Rush & Hannity for the brainwashing or as Hannity calls it, the "Hannitization of America" :|
dmcowen674
No Lifer
Ding ding ding, wow there is hope. They are starting to realize that maybe just maybe they are in fact brainwashed. Very good, there may be some hope for Neocons yet. 😀 :thumbsup:
As somebody pointed out here last week, there certainly is a sameness in the sound of the pro-Bush posters, as though they were all reading from the same script. On the other hand there is more variety to the rhetoric of the anit-Bush posters. This gives rise to the notion of brainwashing. I suppose there is another explanation, but it escapes me.
GeneralGrievous
Banned
Perhaps people are realizing that Kerry is far left and don't want a dirty liberal in office. His senate voting record has certainly spread around recently.
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