DRIP DRIP: BUSH: 52% vs. 48% approval, and MORE!!!!

[ShaneGR]

I remember someone posted a thread offering a prize if we guessed the day Bush's approval ratings dropped below 50%. I said Labor Day. I may have been right.

http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=728


The ‘down’ trend is also seen in the percent of likely voters who say it’s time for someone new in the White House (48%), compared to 45% who said the President deserves to be re-elected.


Date
Re-Elect %
Someone New %

August 16-19, 2003
45
48

July 16-17, 2003
46
47

June 10, 2003
49
38

January 27, 2003
49
41

October 25, 2002
49
35

September 25, 2002
49
38

[Stuckinthebush]

1. This is such good news!

I believe that all polls are skewed to the conservative - not because of intentional mispolling, but due to trends in telephone service and who answers pollsters questions.

With that in mind, I think this number is definitely below 50% now.

Another indicator for me of Bush being in a deep political hole is a discussion I had with a friend the other day via e-mail.

This friend is what I would call a true independent with fiscally conservative leanings. He didn't like Gore - didn't like Clinton. He voted for Bush.

I told him that I was going to DC and joked around by saying that I'm sure Bush would want to have lunch with me for my insights, and was there message that he wanted me to give to the president.

My friend said, "Yes - tell him to take away more of my rights and send more of my tax money to the very rich."

He was not happy with the direction of the country or the president's policies.

I think we will win 2004 in a landslide.

[Woodstock]

2. Really! Most Dems have to work, not answer stupid polls

I think these are always skewed 5-10% in their favor.

But where WE need to improve is motivating the voters we have to getting to the polls. To do this we need to give them a candidate who will speak up!!!

[Tom Kitten]

3. Gotta wonder about this 48%....

...who believe he deserves to be "re-elected"...these people transcend "sheepleness"...we're talking about an abnormally large herd of human ostriches here...

Still, a good sign...although the only people I know who still like Bush are those I see and hear on tv and the radio...

[trailrunners]

5. wait a second...

It's 48% SOMEONE NEW and 45% re-elect according to this poll. So actually more people in this poll are looking for someone other than bush. Only 45% transcend sheepleness, and they're in the minority now!

[Tom Kitten]

6. Even better news then!

I guess I was premature in my judgement...Nothing to complain about there, that's a relief. Oh well, off to work now, been up since 2 am (insomnia attack) and Bush is in town today!

[samsingh]

4. really hope

that the next few polls show a flush.

then we'll see a lot more facts come out in the media and everywhere else.

[kimchi]

7. I hope the polls stay the same.

Maybe if Bush THINKS he has numbers on his side he will become complacent. Then when 80% of the US votes against him, he will only have planned to steal 10% of the vote, and will lose.

[ilpostino]

8. Behind the numbers

I'm listening to Imus and Barnicle this a.m. (two guys who have to pull Bush out of their mouths before talking) and Imus is fretting over quagmire, and Barni is saying that every day he's running into more and more people asking him what are we doing over there? They're like two bubble-headed cheerleaders who got raped after the homecoming game: I don't think he lied to us, says Barni, clutching to a last shred of dignity, but I don't think he told us the real reason for doing what we did.

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

11. "They're like two bubble-headed cheerleaders who got raped"

The simile is priceless. The question is whether the rest of the rah-rah squad -- Fred Barnes, Tweety, etc. -- will report the crime or keep the shame to themselves.

[Mari333]

9. Lets Get Rid of Him Faster!

http://www.bushrecall.org/petition/

[UTUSN]

12. It Took the Romans 3 Yrs, 10 Months, 8 Days

It took the Romans "three years, ten months and eight days" to get to know the real Caligula. This would take us to, uh, November 2004.

******QUOTE*****
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-caligula.html

.... rearing a viper for the Roman people and a Phaethon (": a son of Helios who drives his father's sun-chariot through the sky but loses control and is struck down by a thunderbolt of Zeus") for the world. ....

.... he poisoned Tiberius, as some think, and ordered that his ring be taken from him while he still breathed ....

.... By thus gaining the throne he fulfilled the highest hopes of the Roman people, or I may say of all mankind, since he was the prince most earnestly desired by the great part of the provincials and soldiers, many of whom had known him in his infancy ....

.... He even used openly to deplore the state of his times, because they had been marked by no public disasters,.....and every now and then he wished for the destruction of his armies, for famine, pestilence, fires, or a great earthquake. ....

.... ruled three years, ten months and eight days ....
*****UNQUOTE****

[roberthall10]

10. Zogby Highly Credible

They are the only polling organization I pay attention to. They tracked the 2000 election very accurately.

[UTUSN]

13. 8-16 Capital Gang Said He Had "Stabilized" at 59%

It was our own Mark SHIELDS being the polite Dem who said he had "stabilized at 59%". Kick for dropping like a rock!

[newyawker99]

14. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=208578&mesg_id=208578


I am locking this one.


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