Bush approval rating 48%

[elizm]

Yeah, a real mandate. This moron DID NOT get elected!

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

[coloradodem2005]

1. You have to be fucking kidding me.

n/t

[berni_mccoy]

2. Same rating as just before the election

Anyone who thinks this guy really won is kidding themself.

[acmavm]

3. So, how does this square with the election results? They don't, that's how

.

[elizm]

6. EXACTLY!!

[Nothing Without Hope]

19. Precisely true.

No wonder * is pouring so much money into the inauguration. He needs to

(a) protect his little ole self from the libruls throwing the eggs at his limo, and

(b) manufacture some enthusiasm.
:puffpiece:

[Straight Shooter]

4. I think it went up to about 52% after the *ahem* election, then dropped

bush was never elected POTUS. Never has been, never will be. He comes from a den of thieves, and to a den of thieves he will return.

[Goldeneye]

5. It would be cute if it just kept dropping

Bush doesn't really have much going for him right now...economy is in the toilet, iraq is going badly, rumsfeld sucks, the Kerik oopsie, some dissident republicans in the house and senate, and a lot of pissed off democrats...

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. I'd feel sorry for him...

if he hadn't brought it on himself.

[politicasista]

30. He doesn't have to do anything but show up and ....

act like a good strong spiritual man, wear cowboy boots and act like he is in charge. It's a joke.:puke:

[mdb]

7. You can add CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll to these polls.

Bush, 49 percent of respondents said they approved of the job the president is doing. That number is down from his November approval rating of 55 percent. Bush is the first incumbent president to have an approval rating below 50 percent one month after winning re-election.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/20/poll/

[illflem]

8. Hate to say it but I'll bet Kerry's rating would be lower if he'd

been elected. It's going to take some very unpopular measures to pull this country back together. I think sometimes it must have been a relief for Kerry not winning.

[Cheswick2.0]

13. I disagree. I think if Kerry had been elected people would be celebrating

a sense of hope that things will get better.

[txindy]

41. I have to agree with that

There would've been dancing in the streets and not just in this country, but throughout the world.

[driver8]

47. I agree, Cheswick2.0

With Shrubbery in office, it has been bad news after bad news after bad news. There is nothing that this administration is doing that is positive in any way, shape or form. The Bush "re-election" is like a bad dream I keep hoping that I will wake up from...but it never happens.

War in Iraq, economy tanking, election stolen, media under the fascist's thumb, tax cuts for rich, fuck the poor...

We have a President that the rest of the world (and half of the country) has no respect for. When I watched John Kerry during the debates, I saw a man who would represent our country in the manner in which we deserve to be represented. I saw a man who commanded respect; not a man who "expected" respect. John Kerry would have been a positive influence on this country in these times of negativity.

I have no sense of hope for the future at all, now. None.

[senseandsensibility]

17. You're assuming that * has some interest

in pulling the country back together. He doesn't, and never has had. He'll charge his tax cuts and wars to future generations and be fine with it. The media will aid and abet him in this as it has in everything. Only Kerry would actually be trying to fix our problems, and he would be crucified by the media for trying to do so.

[IndyOp]

29. I disagree, too. Kerry's polls would have been good to start...

And, yes, they would dip when the economic armageddon hits. How low they would go would depend on his ability to really communicate with the public -- about why what happens happens. At this point, as enraged as I am about the theft of this election, I can also see that this -- revealing the theft -- is the only way that we have a chance to expose just how crooked * and cronies are, the only way we can lay low the corporate media. They fail to report on the election fraud and then *bam* - they are exposed once again for the useless group of sheep they have become.

:grr:

[Helga Scow Stern]

9. Gee, I wonder who took that poll?

:silly:

And how much Kool-Aid they'd been drinking? :beer:


Perhaps their sample pool was those who have bought tickets to the

"Inauguration"
:beer: :beer: :beer: :party: :beer: :beer:


They're gonna need gallons and gallons of Kool Aid :party:


To keep from turning into pumpkins for that one!

[Cheswick2.0]

I would like to know who they polled

Are they voters or just everyone? If they polled voters and this is the result then Bush is toast.

[tritsofme]

42. Most likely it is a sample of "national adults"

that's how approval ratings are usually determined.

[senseandsensibility]

10. May I ask a favor?

I'm boycotting the corporate media, and don't know how this is being played on CNN or other networks. Is it just being stated, and then they move on to "other news", or is the significance being explored at all?

[elizm]

20. I'm boycotting cable....

I just happened to hear the snippet on my local news channel and then did a search on the internet. But, to answer your question, it was just a small snippet..NO elaboration/exploration whatsoever.

[Dancing_Dave]

11. How could Kerry fail against such unpopular incumbant?

Put that together with the all time high turn out...both Bush and Kerry supposedly got more votes than Clinton, Reagan, or Roosevelt ever got when they won. Bush achieved the all time record popular vote when he's this unpopular?

It's not possible. Someone was electronically stuffing the ballot box.

[mdb]

21. It is possible when your flip flopping the votes.

From Kerry to Bush.

[ZRB]

25. There's a reason

why the Twit Campaign used the "flip flop" expression so many times. They were subliminablablulby giving us clues as to how they were going to steal the election.

[bywho4who]

46. Ever

heard of this shit called CRIME its some bad shit man

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. No matter what happens I will never believe the man had more

people show up at the polls with the intention to cast a vote for him for President.

[elizm]

16. Plain and simple...

They cheated.

[Nikepallas]

15. AHHH FUCK now we are going to have an alert during Christmas!

Or worse they will stage an Attack!

[Nothing Without Hope]

22. naw, they'll wait to see if they need to suppress fraud investigations

If the representatives can find a senator to stand with them to challenge the election results on Jan 6, THEN we'll see some real "TERRA." (I do believe that Conyers and the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, at least, will stand up on Jan 6 as they did in 2000.)

:nuke: :nuke: :scared: :nuke: :nuke:

[elizm]

23. LOL

Probably not, though...he has his 'MANDATE' now and doesn't need to whip everybody into a tizzy in order to get 're-elected'.

[lonestarnot]

18. Oh there's a poll for the quantum mechanics!

[rodeodance]

27. today Bush gave out his Christmas list at a press conference--using his

much tauted political capital!!

[lonestarnot]

31. did he count the number of gifts on one hand or did he use two chimpet

gum drop method?

[wildflower]

24. 48% is now considered a mandate. They changed the rules in Congress...

They voted on it along with the rule about indicted officials, but it didn't get much press at the time.

Now, any majority party official with a job approval above 30% is officially declared to have a mandate.

They even have an award ceremony for it. A special medal, picturing a scale with an elephant weighing down one side, is presented.

Kidding :)

-wildflower

[rodeodance]

26. this is Times man of the year--going down down down

I like to stay optimistic!!

[Terre]

28. And if the following story is true . . .

watch that 48% take a nose dive into the low 40's, assuming it gets MSM. Read this in a diary at dKos by pontificator:

Breaking: Bush Personally Authorized Torture!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/20/1821/5280

[mikelewis]

34. This needs to be it's own post. HOLY SHIT!!!

[Terre]

36. What a coincidence. . .

Just checked and one started at DU at almost the same time as my mention:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1444510

Not alot of reaction though.

[mikelewis]

40. Well, it's not exactly shocking news on this forum...

Here, this is small pototaoes. No one is surprised by this but it's nice the MSM has said something about it. It'll be under the rug in a day or two.

[genieroze]

39. Holy crap!

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17216&c=206

[RevCheesehead]

32. Makes me wonder what Rummy's approval numbers are... n/t

[bleever]

33. The American people voted for Shrub before they voted against him?

[Broken Acorn]

35. It's a good thing their polling server didn't crash when tabulating

the results. Bush's approval rating might have been 53% if that happened. I guess they don't have to 'fix' approval ratings, lol. Or maybe all those programmers are home for the holidays now.

[deadparrot]

37. And it'll only get worse.

Job approval trends down the longer a president is in office. And *he's* not even a president.

Take your mandate and shove it, fuckwit.

[Kellis]

38. A majority of the country before Nov 2

polled that they thought the "country was headed in the wrong direction"......Isn't it JUST HILARIOUS how NONE of the polls,numbers,statistics match up to a chimp win!????

HA-that stupid little puppet moron didn't get "elected" anymore than I did.

[terry4kerry]

43. Our own poll

I know this might sound crazy, but I think we could do a more accurate job of collecting the data on a poll. It would require that a number of us would be willing to call a random sample and ask them the same question. Most of the polls use about a 1000 people with a sampling error of 3 points. If the sampling was done correctly this would be a great way to see what his approval rating is. I suspect it is probably closer to 30%.

[zimba]

44. The only thing surprising about 48% is that it's that high.

it's that high.

[bywho4who]

45. Oceanfront property

4 SaLe :freak: