Junior's approval rating up to 40%??

[wtmusic]

Wha hoppen'd?

Hmm...threatened veto on torture bill...walk out of Kyoto talks...nope, nothing there to draw from...world hates us even more, leadership skills redlining.

Has Gannon/Guckert been making the rounds of the pollsters? Have the American people finally decided that having a stupid, petulant little fratbrat prick for a president is a GOOD thing?

Someone help me out here...

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob1.htm

[Presstitutes]

1. More here

http://www.presstitutes.com/presstitutes/2005/12/pretitutes_sali.html

[JanMichael]

2. From Dismal to Terrible and the press acts like that's a "good thing".

wtf?

I should add that the proverbial "bar" for evaluating Generalissimo el Busho is pretty fucking LOW.

[wtmusic]

3. I can't figure how it even got turned around

it seemed, for a moment, like Americans had finally snapped from their stupor

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

15. Maybe it didn't...+ - 3.5. could be he is still at 36.5%...Right?

And the poll before could be 37%(MOE)..so he is flat or could be still going down.

[dkofos]

8. In his case the bar sits on the floor.

If he doesn't trip over it (after karl shows him where it is) the media whores are ecstatic

[TahitiNut]

17. When the bar was high, he called it a limbo contest.

As the bar gets lower, he calls it a high-jump. The people who buy into this revisionism are fucking insane.

[mikehiggins]

4. More than half the country disapprove of the way * is going.

That is a great victory for sanity, compared to what has been polled in the past.

Keep him below 40% and his coattails will drag a lot of GOPukes down with him.

And won't that be nice?

[StClone]

5. Gas Prices went down

That is the reason. As fuel cost rise again I see a slide anew.

[Hippo_Tron]

28. BINGO

Gas prices went back down to about pre Katrina level. That's all that it takes to get a 4 point bump.

[bigtree]

6. He ticked up about 5 points in a poll with a 3.1%+- margin of error

The reporters who lead the story with "Bush's approval numbers up" are shills. This is an amazingly low number. It is said that it comprises his hard core base. They've got to be hanging on to some weak threads.

Remember Clinton in the middle of impeachment and for the rest of his term polled in the 60% range.

Polls are crap, but this one is so low that it reveals a president who isn't much liked or respected for whatever job he thinks he's doing.

[wishlist]

7. Gas prices went down drastically (if only temporarily) which helped

Besides lower gas prices, the failure of Bush's critics and Dems to put forth a consistent Iraq exit strategy plus reports that troops ARE going to be reduced soon has probably helped him in the polls. I heard on news that Dems in Congress are going to try this week to carve out consensus to put forward a unified Iraq exit strategy.

[TheDebbieDee]

9. I'm surprized by most DUers reaction to *'s upward trend

in the polls lately.

Common sense and 5 years of exposure to the * propaganda machine should tell you that if anything SOUNDS too good to be true, it probably IS too good to be true!

*'s upward trend in the polls is just another lie that's being repeated over and over and over again to make us believe it!

Come on, people! We're smarter than this!

[Joe Chi Minh]

23. Even the most politically naive people are going to want

more than the just a lowering of the outrageous price of gas, to be brought back on board.

[Raster]

10. keep in mind that the MSM is controlled by bushco* and their familiars...

...there is an all-out effort to stop bushco*'s freefall numbers. I guarantee polls are being fudged, accurate and impartial indicators are being obscured and multi-billion dollar media conglomerates are just praying they can keep distracting us with the White House Christmas cards and missing blond girls long enough to keep us from taking a very hard look at their complicity in this fucking mess. If the MSM says bushco* is at a 40% approval rating, assume the numbers are deliberately skewed 5% to 10% for bushco*.

Contrast to the Clinton years when the MSM did everything they could to force Bill's numbers down.

[Loge23]

21. ...which continues tomorrow on NBC Nightly

The WH has apparently arranged for "open" access by Brian Willimas to showcase the idiot dictator's "typical" day.
Yet another paid political campaign spot brought to you by the MSM and the republican national comittee.

[lonestarnot]

11. liars liars panties on fires!

[Kazak]

12. Gas went down...

It's disgusting really. :puke:

[dkofos]

13. Polls can be and are manipulated.

* is still a fucking looser.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. And Loser too. nt

[Hubert Flottz]

14. "Someone help me out here..."

The GOPers said the magic words............TAX CUT!

[DaveColorado]

18. Gas prices went down, Katrina isn't in the news as much

[roguevalley]

19. squareheads are getting behind him again. the people he needs -

us and the rest of the country aren't swayed. And obviously, they can't call certain parts of the south.

[man4allcats]

20. I regret to say I am not surprised by this.

It is sad but true that many of Bush's supporters are just too stupid to get it. They're not really interested in the war or what Bushco is doing to the Constitution or the environment or any of the other myriad issues and scandals stemming from this corrupt regime. They're interested in the price of gas which at the moment is relatively low and the economic picture which they have recently been told is quite good - never mind that it is only quite good if you already happen to be making 150 or 200K a year. Tell these people something, anything, that makes them feel warm and fuzzy, and Jr.'s numbers will go up. As others here have noted though, this upswing in his ratings is only temporary. The prediction is that gas prices will be back up over $3.00 per gallon this spring, and that warm, fuzzy feeling will diminish (along with Dubya's ratings) when his base again find they are paying over $60.00 to fill up the SUV.

[noahmijo]

22. Well what do you expect from a nation whose majority is made up of

superstitious bigoted religious idiots?


At this point I really am beyond worrying about this country and how it can save itself. It's a judgement call from taking a look at your average American.

You wanna put Jesus before your job and livelyhood go ahead but don't bitch me when you can't afford to fill that SUV.

[Kurovski]

24. Lieberman has been out front playing pat-a-cake with George.

The DLC has been gently massaging Bush's nuts. Maybe that's had something to do with it?

Some folks once again believe the happy-horseshit about the economy ?

Gas prices were going a bit lower for a time, although they are once again rising.

George Bush really is a great president?

Whatever it is, there was a big push to change the perception that Bush was in free-fall. The DLC did their part by jumping on Dean and agreeing that Bush's murderous rampage in the Mid-East is kinda cool. he'll be tumbling again soon.

[stevietheman]

25. My theory is that it's a brief holiday reprieve.

I'm also seeing a dampening of the mood for "Bush-be-gone" the past couple weeks.

After the nation gets back to business in January, Bush will sink again.

[wtmusic]

31. That's right! We're at war..the war against Christmas

and the troops are rallying around their leader! D'oh!

[Kansas Wyatt]

26. As Karl Rove would put it,....

'That's still a 60% mandate against the President and his policies, and delicious fact.'

[WI_DEM]

27. Yes, as expected the press is building a dismal 40% approval

rating into some kind of miraculous comeback.

[Javaman]

29. That's because, there hasn't been anything out there that he*...

could fuck up in a colossal way. Wait till the next disaster, his* numbers will plumet because no one trusts him to save their asses.

I think his numbers came up because he didn't fuck up anything this week.

"I'll support him, he didn't screw up this week and that's one week in a row for me!"

oy

colossal racist failure*

[wtmusic]

32. The last disaster was more than two months ago

of course, everyone's forgotten already

[roger72645]

30. Maybe Diebold has started

helping the polling firms.

:think:

No, it is more likely the decrease in gas prices. Our short memory span and the fact that the hell we are pouring on Iraq is out of sight and, therefore, out of mind also contributes. At least 60% still has Bush's number!!

God bless our soldiers.

[Greybnk48]

33. Well I just got $457 heat & elect bill

here in Wi that has certainly dampened our spirits. Thank goodness I don't have 30,000 lights on my house!!