Why Conservatives Can’t Believe Bush Is Unpopular

[Triana]

The popular right-wing blog Ankle Biting Pundits has a post claiming the new AP poll — which found Bush’s approval rating at 42 percent — is inaccurate. Here is one piece of the “evidence”:

Question D14 is curious, too....

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/06/why-conservatives-cant-believe-bush-is-unpopular/

Poor vacuum-packed babies. They just don't get Reality, do they?

[applegrove]

1. Patsies!

[Ian David]

2. Why Conservatives Can’t Believe Bush Is Unpopular

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Question D14 is curious, too. 14% of respondents make less that $15,000 per year?

Actually, this is exactly what you’d expect from a poll that reflected an accurate cross-section of the American public. In 2003, according to the Census Bureau, 20 percent of households earned $17, 984 or less.

This is precisely the problem with many conservatives. They can’t understand why Bush is unpopular, because they don’t understand how many people are struggling.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/06/why-conservatives-cant-believe-bush-is-unpopular