Poll of New Yorkers: Bush is a disaster

[sabra]

http://www.wstm.com/global/story.asp?s=3918199&ClientType=Printable

Poll of New Yorkers: Bush is a disaster

ALBANY, N.Y. A new poll says President Bush's approval rating has sunk to a new low _ 33 percent _ in Democrat-dominated New York after the Gulf Coast hurricanes.

The poll of registered voters by W-N-B-C-TV in New York City and the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College was released today.

It also found half of New Yorkers don't think their community could be evacuated in a major disaster.

...

Democrats outnumber Republicans 5-to-3 statewide.

[valerief]

1. Who can trust Beer Hog Gus?

[Dogmudgeon]

11. That's a cool moniker for ... who?

I never heard Bush called "Beer Hog Gus". Does it refer to him?

--p!

[Drum]

18. I think it's an anagram...? nt

[valerief]

21. I was playing with anagrams last night

Beer Hog Gus is none other than…

George Bush!

[Cha]

37. That's freakin' AMazing!

I'll have to use that and credit a DUer named "valerief"!

Welcome to DU, valerief! :toast:

[tanyev]

2. A category 5 disaster.

[texpatriot2004]

3. At least a category 5. n/t

[tanyev]

4. Heck, that dial goes to 11!

:)

[Ignacio Upton]

5. I Heart NY!!!!!!!!

I'm glad my state sees through Bush's fog of deception.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. They've got his number

they know better then most of us how much of disaster Bush is.

BTW: Welcome to DU from another former NYer :hi:

[WePurrsevere]

14. We New York Staters are normally pretty good at seeing through the BS....

even us northern NY "bumpkins". ;)

edited to add due morning "fog":
From one NYer to another WELCOME to DU. B-)

[Ignacio Upton]

33. Thanks

and for the record I still live in NY.

[Cha]

38. What I want to know is..

why are bloomberg's polls so high in NYC when he's obviously a bush toadie and loves to thwart those Peace Marches?

[goforit]

7. OUCH!!!!!

[NYC]

8. No one interviewed me.

I could have lowered his ratings significantly.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. Let's be fair about this!

33 percent is way too high for that sorry rat fuck!

[crowshadow]

10. But he is a Compassionate Conservative

[Ben Ceremos]

13. Must you impugn Karl Marx with this parody?

Marx was a decent man who called the situation as he saw it. The Leninists/Bolsheviks/Maoists/Khmer Rouge, et al. are at fault for the way his ideas were misinterpreted. Marx will be proven right, if he hasn't already been by the BFEE. Couldn't you stick to using Hitler, as Bush has so much more in common with him? Maybe Stalin or Pol Pot?
Marx wrote a brilliant analysis of capital/labor relations and the politico-economic situation. Without Marx and Frederick Engels, the world would be one huge capitalist slave camp. We owe the man our respect even if we don't appreciate the uses of his ideas.
I hope I don't come across as a devotee, but I am an "intellectual" who has spent decades deciphering the value of Marxist philosophy and I don't think most people understand how important his message has been in the "struggle against world-wide capitalism".

[crowshadow]

31. Bush is only Bush

My aim was to represent a person of compassion, obviously I did not mean I thought Bush was actually compassionate or that Marx was not. I agree, there a number of philosophies that could create a government that works, unfortunately humans have to be involved.

[Dem2theMax]

12. Of course he is! And I've got the 'news' photo to prove it.

:evilgrin:

[Cha]

39. Got That Right!

That needs to be etched in the Annuals of Time!

[0007]

15. New Yorkers are the best for getting it right!

[NYC Liberal]

16. His approval in NYC is even lower

Last time I checked it was around 20 percent or so.

[Cha]

40. So why is bloomberg getting

a free pass?

[Brooklyn Michael]

17. Geez...file this one under "D" for "Duh"

They needed a poll to be able to tell that NYers can't stand Bush??? All you have to do is go to any bar, ride a subway, sit in a restaurant...walk down the street, stick your head out the window...and you'll hear people ragging on him. Hell, even the paltry handful of conservatives / Republicans I know that live around me can name at least a half dozen things they don't like about him....

[AspenRose]

29. *sigh* I need to move to NY

eom

[Brooklyn Michael]

32. or just visit...

Contrary to middle-America stereotypes, us NYers are quite the hospitable bunch...

:toast:

...unless you try and hold your national convention for a political party that gives you the finger at every opportunity, while riding your coattails on how great you responded to 9/11...

:spank:

[Olney Blue]

42. Good points.

:yourock:

[GayCanuck]

19. He'd

fair worse up here,

[Cha]

41. I know, I loved my trip to

Canada after Labor Day and I got to read real news about the bushwa and talk to people who when they found out I was from the States ..started asking me questions about our Worst Disaster to hit the US And I got to tell them Exactly what I thought of monkeyboy.

[Ian David]

20. My dad works in New York, and only recently admitted he voted for Bush...

but he also says that he wishes now that he hadn't.

[CBHagman]

22. I'm surprised it's even that high!

I realize the whole state isn't New York City, where Bush got maybe 25 percent of the vote (this after the RNC in NYC, which rendered, a friend of mine in Brooklyn said, the whole area into a kind of prison camp), but you'd think the general incompetence would have made some impression on most people.

[cassiepriam]

23. It cannot be that high. Something is fishy. Once again. nt

[paineinthearse]

24. Isn't this about the same as the way they voted in the 2004 pResidential

election?

:shrug:

[sabra]

25. I just like the headline: "Bush is a disaster"

plus the 33 percent figure seems more representative of the country wide approval, not just NY. But Gallup says his numbers are up :-)

[paineinthearse]

27. Reminds me of that TV caption

anyone have the image?

[sabra]

28. here

[paineinthearse]

30. That would make a great avatar!

But then I'd have to drop Conyers.

[Zorra]

26. "Disaster" is the understatement of the year.

But I don't think that there is a word that accurately describes the magnitude of the destruction caused to America and the by that stinking lying POS.

[OnionPatch]

34. That's not low enough

for NYC!! Is it?

Anyway, I'm jealous. Our local freepers are getting desperate and plastering flags and W signs on their autos again. Oh how I wish I lived around normal people like these.

[despairing optimist]

35. That number doesn't sound right

If the ratio of Dems to GOP is nearly 2:1 in NYS to begin with, 33 percent isn't very low. It's just partisan. Purely anecdotal evidence from my family upstate indicates that Republicans too are fed up, so the figure should be significantly lower than 33 percent upstate. (They stopped sending me prowar e-mails about eight months ago and are just plain quiet now. Ahhhh.)

Down in NYC the contempt for Bush is so great, people curse him when subway trains stall between stations and they'd likely riot if anyone rose to defend him. IMO, the NYC support figure is closer to 15 percent.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

36. Love ya, New Yorkers!!!

:hug: I can't believe they could even find 33% in the whole state. I'm sure it's approaching single digit support in NYC.