Sub-40% approval ratings, the point of no return

[Walt Starr]

Once the numbers drop below 40% consistently, all bets are off. He will become an "unpopular" president.

And that's when things will get really scary.

Remember cornered animals and what they will do.

[paineinthearse]

1. Looking for a word

What is the opposite of "mandate"?

[SoCalDem]

3. girldate

:evilgrin:

[paineinthearse]

6. not exactly the image I had in mind

wiseass! I had no intention of hijacking this thread, sorry, Walt, should have known better.

[jsamuel]

4. "woman breakup"?

[Massacure]

Is Lame Duck what you are looking for?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

23. Refutation. n/t

[senseandsensibility]

2. Isn't forty two percent unpopular?

I think it is, but the corporate media won't say it. I doubt if they'll even say it if he drops below forty. It would be nice if one of our Dem "leaders" would point it out.

[Stirk]

20. If your a Dem, anything below 50% is 'very unpopular'.

If you're a Republican, you're pretty much golden until you hit 39%, and then they just stop talking about popularity.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Will l be fun to watch

Why oh why I cannot remove the image of Nixon leaving on a chopper from my head? We may yet see that...

[nookiemonster]

10. Yes. And what a beautiful image it is.

eom

[Lefty48197]

7. He might raise the gas prices to $4/gallon.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[Kikosexy2]

8. Calling...

Osama...oh Osama...come quick, come quick...I need an attack on U.S. soil right away!

[terrya]

9. I think Nixon's ratings were around 35% before he resigned.

But, sadly, Bush is no Nixon. I can't ever, ever see Bush resign. Ever.

[MalibuChloe]

15. Nope, it takes too much character to resign

he'll have to be dragged out of the WH in cuffs.

I can dream.

;-)

[no_hypocrisy]

11. "No return" -- unless you're talking about indefinite martial law . . . .

[AlinPA]

12. They will need another 9/11 to try to get his popularity back. Scary. nt

[MalibuChloe]

18. do you think that would work?

wouldn't Americans then realize he is making us LESS safe???

wouldn't they?

God, I should hope so.

[AlinPA]

26. Some flag waving would do it. 'murcans are gullible. n/t

[Inland]

13. One attack on America away from a coup d'etat. nt

[smartvoter]

14. He won't care. He can't run again anyway. ZERO accountability. nt

[Kolesar]

16. Ya got me all excited

But we have still not seen 39% or below. You tease.

[Edgewater_Joe]

17. But You Still Need Repunks To Start Fleeing

And from the Freeper boards and posters I interact with on other boards, those dumbass freaks are in more denial than ever. Hell, they're now pimping these stories about the 9/11 Commission not getting FBI info as further proof that ... drumroll please ... 9/11 was ALL CLINTON'S FAULT!

I even had one pooh-pooh the Taft indictments.

Is this the kind of behavior we saw before Jim Jones grabbed the arsenic and the iron tub?

[Walt Starr]

21. All indications are that some movement is being made.

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. Under 40 is a major psychological threshold

A lot of people automatically round up anything in the 40s to "Almost Half". At 39% that no longer works.

[alfredo]

22. Here's a good graph

I think it will be difficult to get him much below 35% because then you are starting to get to his true believers, the ones that see him as a messenger of God's word.

[NV Whino]

24. Oh, that's such a pretty graph!

[alfredo]

25. Notice that odd short term spike

in early Nov 2004?

[Mr_Spock]

27. Don't compare Bush to an animal!!

Those poor animals :( Don't insult animals so!

[catmandu57]

28. 38% Missouri approval

and dropping. Marry in haste and all that.