Do you know anyone who's flocking back to the GOP because of gas prices?

[Ignacio Upton]

Bush's job approval is going back up...and the price at the pump is plummeting. Market manipulation or not, the two factors clearly correlate with each other.
However, I'm wondering if any DUer's have run into the 5-10% of the public that's stupid enough to magically start loving the GOP again because they only have to pay $2.70 at the pump instead of $3.05? Do they even remember the shit that Bush has done over the last two years, let alone the last six? I'd like to meet one of these people and smash their head in with a two by four for political illiteracy

[waiting for hope]

1. Just say "Katrina"

and they may think twice - again - .... spoke to my mother in law in Metairie the other night, she said hardly anyone went to where Bush was speaking. All the relief money from the government has been "allocated" which translates to "you won't see a dime". There are still strong emotions attached to that debacle.

[Sherman A1]

9. My Mom's in Metairie too

and while she is okay, the word is as you said.

[waiting for hope]

13. Her house fortunately didn't have

any damage but we know a lot of people who lost everything - and she also said it still sucks, like living with a broken arm or leg.

[Ignacio Upton]

11. But the majority of Americans won't

The public, outside of NOLA, has a ridiculously short attention span. Bush had a similar "bounce" in his job approval last winter when gas prices went down then, even though NOLA was still (and IS still) suffering.

[ForFuxakes]

2. Yeah...Cal Thomas

"When gas prices rose to near record levels this summer, it was supposedly due to the incompetence of the Bush administration. Gas prices have now dropped to well under $3 a gallon where I live. If it was Bush's "incompetence" that caused the spike, does he now get credit for the decline? Market forces set gas prices, so he should neither be blamed for the spike, nor praised for the decline, but the Democrats won't see it that way."

Link here: http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas090606.php3

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. It wasn't incompetance that raised the prices.

It was collusion. He promised his buddies that they could skim as much as they wanted without fear of investigation for price fixing, if they would agree to bring prices back down before the election.

They are pickpockets double-teaming the American public.

[Psephos]

3. Smash their head in with a two by four

That'll convince 'em to vote Democratic, fer sure!

I agree with you on your other points, though. :-)

Peace

[Ignacio Upton]

4. Well...considering their rational for form their opinions of Bush...

Smashing their heads in would actually RAISE their IQ's.:evilgrin:

[Parisle]

5. Sure,...... Some Are,....

---- But plenty more are cynical enough to see this for what it is,... market manipulation by Big Oil in order to help out their buddy George Bush. After the election, naturally, these "cynics" expect the price of gasoline to go right back up. Americans tend to be fairly smart shoppers, y'know,.... it's our national pasttime.

[Ignacio Upton]

8. Well...those people who are

Make the difference between putting the breaks on the Bush agenda, and allowing GOP power to go unchecked for yet two more year! They make the difference between Bush having 36% approval and 47% approval.

[NC_Nurse]

6. You can't fix stupid.

[TahitiNut]

10. STRONG correlation between Bush Approval and Gas Prices (pollkatz)

[Ignacio Upton]

12. Why did gas get cheaper after 9/11?

Wouldn't the fear of a conflict involving a Middle Eastern terrorist group like Al Qaida raising anxiety over oil prices.

[TahitiNut]

14. Sympathy and fear of U.S. ire? (That was part of the spin.)

First and foremost, air travel went into the shitter. Nobody flew. The airlines demand for fuel dropped like a stone. A secondary impact hit all kinds of transportation - trains, boats, rental cars, taxis, etc. Tourism uses fuel. Tourism in the U.S. hit all-time lows. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was topped off as well, iirc. That winter was also unexpectedly mild and the demand for fuel oil was far lower than expected.

[ecstatic]

15. and prices are still at record highs... compared to before Bush came in

I guess we're supposed to jump for joy about how prices are *so low* now (ranging between 2.34 and 2.69 around here). Still, even at 2.34, that's still a jump of about 55 cents since January 2005.

[slackmaster]

16. I don't know anyone who has ever returned to a party they quit

Democratic or Republican.

[LaPera]

17. Don't be fooled, the bullshit polls are being manipulated to convince us

that gas prices & with every Bush speech, etc...that Bush is rising in the polls...Rove & Co. will keep manipulating certain polls (Fox, etc.) so they can get Bush at 50% by election time...so they can say people decided to trust Bush & the republicans to protect them....after stealing needed election races around the country, with their Diebold electronic voting machines...First though, manipulating the polls is essential...and they are doing it now!

If they can convince you the bullshit polls are correct and a republican candidate is closer than they actually are...then it's easy to rig the voting machines and get away with it...because the polls said it was close, so no questions asked...this bullshit will be happening all over the country on election day...they are just setting themselves up now with the "polls".