ABC News Poll... 46% APPROVE of

[liberaliraqvet26]

*'s handling of this. Are people awake??

[OzarkDem]

1. Can't be right

No way.

[bitchkitty]

2. People are awake - that poll is b.s.

A total lie.

The media by any other name is still a den of whores.

[madame defarge]

3. Clearly they didn't poll people like us!!! n/t

[Imagevision]

18. Yeah? lets wait until the Body Count comes in, then check your polls

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. His handling of Katrina? He's done absolutely nothing

Here we go with those low expectations again.

[OneTwentyoNine]

5. Hey,did they poll ANYONE in New Orleans??

Wonder how that would come out. Shit,you could call a load of phone numbers in Kansas and Bush would come out with 60%.

Of course they know he's bungled this disaster from the start but they'd still give him good numbers.

[blondeatlast]

23. Conveniently enough for *, they can't. No land lines available.

They only call land lines with verifiable addresses.

[rocktivity]

6. Well, they're getting killed on the talk shows and online polls

This is their next line of defense.

Just like with the elections. Kerry had the clear lead in all the polls, but the closer it got to Electon Day, the "tighter" the polls got. This is the same strategy--save Bush's ass by making it look like the country is "split down the middle" on the issue.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Mike_The_Computer]

7. When the body count begins, Bush's "approval" will sink like a stone

Just like with Iraq, it'll be the climbing death toll that will open people's eyes.

[indepat]

9. Begs the question of whether the public will be told of the magnitude of

deaths.

[chicagiana]

12. Depends on when they died ...

Perhaps they will have a pre and post federal death toll. Anyone who dies after Sunday won't be included just like anybody who dies on the plane ride out of Iraq aren't included in the death toll.

[Imagevision]

19. "They" already said they may never know the true number of deaths

Bush; "We may never find out who leaked Ms.Plame's CIA identity"

[neoteric lefty]

8. check the date of the poll

a lot of times, these polls are up to a week old. The truth only started to become apparent midweek.

edit: the date was Friday Sept. 2, 2005. I guess it take some people a few days to realize the situation going on and how much of this could have been prevented.

[many a good man]

10. Earlier post with link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2061318

Poll released this morning.

Two-thirds of Republicans approve govt's handling of the crisis. I think this makes the clearest statement ever on "GOP values."

[neoteric lefty]

11. GOP-ers complain how we hate Bush for no other reason except because

he's George W. Bush. I think they are the ones who are ignoring the facts on the ground and are brainwashed (that's the closest word I could think of) about this man. How can you look at this mess and say George W. Bush is doing a good job.

[Catrina]

22. Two thirds of Republicans approve

of the deaths of 10,000 of their fellow citizens because of neglect!! That's possible ~ although I haven't met a single Repub. who isn't horrified by this ~

[Zodiak]

13. 2/3 of Republicans enjoy

watching dehydrated, starving, drowning poor people die needlessly in New Orleans. They say "good job! and "thank you, Mr. President".

Nice to know why I still refuse to have any friends who support Bush.

[robbedvoter]

14. The remaining 1/3 however, enjoys kicking gays.

No one can support W at this time unless they share some hatred in common. Of course, their numbers are much smaller than ABC and the rest of the MSM would like us to believe.

[Spazito]

15. If you check the methodology, this poll means nothing

501 people polled randomly.

[globalvillage]

17. The problem is

that the media is using the % without the number.
Headline in Pitt Post Gazette Katrina special section "Polls Sharply Divided over Bush", but does not mention 501 polled until para 6.
The online polls I've seen have been closer to 80%-20% with thousands polled. Will anyone see those?
Time for LTTE.

on edit, and in defense of the PG, the editorials were overwhelmingly critical of bush*


The president from Mars
Sunday, September 04, 2005
By Dennis Roddy
As New Orleans took on the atmospherics of a John Carpenter movie, George W. Bush, a man reluctant to distinguish between desperation and lawlessness, much less make the connection between the two, proved at last he is his father's son.
Thirteen years earlier George Bush the Elder saw a black population mired in poverty and alienation riot after a California jury blithely acquitted the posse of Los Angeles cops who beat Rodney King half to death. His response was to deliver an indignant speech about law and order, proving only that he was blind to the nuances of plain justice.
Last week, with the poor stranded on rooftops, then huddled, hungry and abandoned inside a leaking stadium and a sweltering convention center, George the Lesser watched in seeming amazement when they ran riot. First came looting born of hunger and thirst when a federal government adept at moving armies to a foreign desert for a fraudulent war proved incapable of shipping food and medicine across state lines for a flooded city.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05247/564856.stm

[MO_Dem]

16. It was pointed out on TV that after

9-11, w's approval was 90%. Now it's barely half that.

[OregonBlue]

20. But it should be at 0 or less!

[gizmo1979]

21. I would think

it would be much lower.Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people,and you'll never be disappointed.

[demgrrrll]

24. Is this the same TNS polling company from China, the one that

polled 501 people and did not disclose their methodology?

[montana500]

25. chil out!

this poll is incredibly bad news for Bush. His numbers were 91% after 9/11.

This is very, very bad news for the politicos in the Bush admin.