Another back handed comment by CNN...

[politicaholic]

"Approval of Bush's handling of Iraq, which had been hovering in the low- to mid-40s most of the year, dipped to 38 percent. Midwesterners and young women and men with a high school education or less were most likely to disapprove of Bush on his handling of Iraq in the past six months."

So those who disapprove of Iraq come from the least populated areas in the country and are of minimal education? :wtf:

Well CNN...I don't care what everyone in the world says, I think you're journalists.

assholes.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

1. Funny though......

......wouldn't that be Bush's base?

[Straight Shooter]

6. This has been discussed extensively on DU before

Contrary to popular opinion, bush's base is NOT the poor and uneducated. It's the upper class and middle-age white males.

A member of DU tore apart the "poor vote for bush" theory quite well. I wish I had saved the thread in my bookmarks. It was remarkable.

[Lorien]

14. I live in a very "mixed" neighborhood

there are three million dollar estates sitting five doors down from $95,000 shacks (probably $35,000 when the owners bought them eight years ago-this is one of those "it" neighborhoods). Anyway, I noted during the last election that the * signs sat mostly in the front yards of the very wealthy, upper middle class AND the very poor.I think that the poor are so burdened with the struggle of simply surviving these days that they have no time to become politically informed.

[SteppingRazor]

2. That's actually an important statistic...

Taken in context. Midwesterners and people with high school educations were the biggest SUPPORTERS of the war up until 6 months ago. So it's pretty big that they're now turning against it. I think you're reading too much into this.

[chimpymustgo]

7. Kagan tease: Look out naysayers - the economy's looking up.

Don't we all want people to have jobs?

Cheap, cheap shot from Limbaugh's favorite Dittohead.

[TWiley]

10. That was my thought as well.

His base of support amongst the ordinary populace is crumbling. Not that the shrub would give a shit though. He would still be brazen with only the support of a wealthy minority.

[Arugula Latte]

16. Exactly. That's surprising.

You'd think it would be coast dwellers and college educated people who disapprove the most.

However, these people probably have more loved ones and acquaintances dying for nothing in Iraq than the other demographics.

[shraby]

3. That must mean that 62% of the people

are from the least populated areas in the country and are of minimal education? That's the percentage who disapprove.

[KurtNYC]

4. That would seem to be the group(s) most likely to

have loved ones in the service.

[senseandsensibility]

5. That EXACT wording is in an article on the AOL start screen

It's from an AP article.

[wtmusic]

11. Ahh, AP

that bastion of non-partisan reporting :eyes:

[senseandsensibility]

12. mmm hmmmm

and they couldn't wait to proclaim that two thirds of the sheeple still think * is likeable or some such crap.

[wtmusic]

18. Next: "Who would you rather have a beer with, Bush or Stalin?"

:crazy:

[sandnsea]

8. They misquoted the poll

I think the poll said the sharpest increase in disapproval was in the midwest, and among young people without a high school education. That's how I understood it when I read it, but it's been a long time since I was in high school.

[otohara]

9. That was in the AP Article too

[Rude Horner]

13. Yeah, I thought that comment ...

seemed to minimilize the impact of the poll results. Probably by design. Ya know, to make it seem like it's the less intelligent people who are disapproving of Bush.

In reality, if they reported what the results ACTUALLY meant, it's probably something more like this: The more educated people have already been disapproving of Bush for a long time now, and just RECENTLY the less educated people are starting to wake up too.

But they way they worded it in the article seemed to me to be intentionally misleading. Then again, maybe I'm just getting paranoid about the media. :)

[dalaigh lllama]

15. Yup, that's how you and I would interpret it

but I bet it was phrased just that way by TPTB to make it sound like only uneducated folk were agin the war.

[NYCGirl]

17. Same thing was just reported on AAR. NT