A HUGE SURGE in Bush's Popularity! Wow! Zowie! Amazing! yeah, right.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

According to MSNBC, the AP/AOL poll finds bush support RISING GREATLY from 32 to 36%. Of course the error rate is 3%.

And the MSNBC talking head discussion is misleading. The actual story can be found here - and it isn't at all positive news for the president.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16749860/

Why is it that daytime MSNBCers' try to be so pro-Bush?

[bdamomma]

1. this media is nothing but a kiss up to the bush regime

geez, go after the media too, they are doing the American people so much harm by not giving us the truth, we have to go to outside news agencies to get the truth.

[WI_DEM]

2. 36% is hardly strong

but it's interesting since many RWers are accusing MSNBC and NBC of a liberal bent of late.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. but if you turn it upside down, it becomes 93!

so there.

[acmavm]

3. Who'd they ask, the lobotomy ward of the local psychiatric

hospital?

[SteppingRazor]

5. Y'know calling bush supporters lobotomy patients...

is seriously insulting to lobotomy patients ;)

[villager]

6. say what? GE spinning something in Bush's favor?

;-)

[YDogg]

7. they are playing to a daytime audience? and, they suck.

[pampango]

8. I didn't listen to MSNBC, but that link is hardly a pro-Bush

story. It says "a minority think he is honest — 44 percent."

"Two-thirds of Americans, 66 percent, think the country is on the wrong track."

"Iraq remains the public’s top concern, with 65 percent disapproving of Bush’s handling of the situation.

"Bush’s overall approval rating inched upward to 36 percent, from 32 percent early in the month." Inched upward, not a huge surge. If his poll numbers inch up every once in a while, it will help with the polls credibility, when his numbers crash to new lows in the near future."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. and at the end, the error rate is 3%.

so, between 32-35, within margin of error.
at best, 1% of those polled, by lists and geography we don't know, analyzed by systems and weights we aren't told, selected by ways that they hide, have decided that they now approve of him.

Did I put enough qualifiers in there?

[Imagevision]

10. Two-thirds of Americans, 66 percent, think the country is on the wrong track.

I think the only time we are going to see real changes is when we elect a new president, Even people who are moderate Republicans are going to say we need someone who’s a breath of fresh air.

[bdamomma]

11. popularity BS

read this article


http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/stateofunion.appoll.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest


Americans are in a dark mood about the state of the union, the administration, Congress, Iraq and even some personal traits of President Bush, a poll finds.

Most believe the country is on the wrong track -- a complete flip from five years ago, according to an AP-AOL News poll that finds little to cheer about in advance of Bush's State of the Union speech Tuesday night.

Americans see the president as likable, decisive and strong -- but also stubborn. Only a minority think he is honest -- 44 percent, down from 53 percent two years ago.