Wash. Post/ABC Post-Saddam Poll: Bush Approval

[pruner]

12/07/03: Approve 53, Disapprove 40, No Opinion 7
12/14/03: Approve 57, Disapprove 39, No Opinion 5

All in all, considering the costs to the United States versus the benefits to the United States, do you think the war with Iraq was worth fighting, or not?

11/16/03: Worth Fighting 52, Not Worth Fighting 44, No Opinion 4
12/14/03: Worth Fighting 53, Not Worth Fighting 42, No Opinion 5

Do you happen to have heard or read about the news that Saddam Hussein was captured yesterday by U.S. forces in Iraq, or haven't you heard about that yet?

12/14/03: Yes 95, No 5, No Opinion 0

Do you think Saddam's capture means the big challenges facing the United States in Iraq are over, or do you think there are big challenges to the United States in Iraq still ahead?

12/14/03: Challenges Over 7, Challenges Ahead 90, No Opinion 3

N=506, Adults Nationwide, MOE=+/- 5

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/vault/stories/data121503.html

[slinkerwink]

1. wow, bush got a smaller bounce from that than I expected

[corporatewhore]

3. I agree but you just know that the media whores

will make it out like AWOL in chief personally lassoed saddam himself
I am expecting sabout three to six weeks of ass kissing and praises for His Oilyness George Freedom loving bush

[frank frankly]

5. but it isn't going to absorb

if people didn't bite already, they won't later.

[corporatewhore]

20. i agree i just wont be able

to watch the news for a couple of weeks (execept Democracy Now)

[frank frankly]

4. no kidding, slinkerwink, no kidding!

people want the war to END! not only those who never wanted it to start, either!!!!

[frank frankly]

2. Excellent news! The propaganda may have reached its peak influence!

2-4% increase on the day of the "Huge Boost" is not a boost at all!

People who hate bush will always hate bush.

I swear people did not buy into war this thinking it would take years and years and money and money...and they did believe we were in imminent danger. no WMD has pissed off all of the reasonable people I know, including those who voted for *.

This war has already exceeded people's expectations, in a real bad way.

[slinkerwink]

7. we'll have to wait and see---maybe people are in shock?

this is the game now---wait and see. Tomorrow Dean will present his foreign policy speech that'll sound reasonable and great to people who aren't so sure about Bush's foreign policy credentials.

[Zomby Woof]

6. So!

It seems that if there is any validity to these polls, then Saddam's capture provided a sharp intoxicating buzz with much less lasting effects than maybe the RW warmongers and apologists (Lieberman, to pick a random example of both) dared hope.

I think people have their minds made up about the rightness or wrongness of the war, since the increase in Chimpy's numbers still falls within the MOE. As we have been saying on DU all day - all well and good that bastard was caught, but it changes NOTHING about the immorality or illegality of the war, or how incompetently it has been conducted as a whole.

[frank frankly]

8. right-o, woof

goddamn people are figuring it out!!!

bush is a lying POS and this war will last a long bloody time.

not what you bargained for, eh, America? not what you were sold, eh?

[slinkerwink]

10. let's be cautious though......

we know what those bastards can do.

[Zomby Woof]

13. lol

I said as much in your thread a few minutes ago, but you were much more succinct. :-)

[slinkerwink]

14. ha, they're damnable bastards!

my favorite song at the moment, "Idiot Son of An Asshole" is playing through my headphones......:evilgrin:

[slinkerwink]

16. hey Zomby, check this link out

http://www.northbaydean.com

I know it's a Dean site, but there's a funny take on a credit card called a "RepubliCard"---you might find it funny ;-)

[Zomby Woof]

17. clevah!

(Like they might say in North Bay)



I like that nice touch with the election years, lol. :-)

Edit: These should be printed and ready to sell!

[Dudley_DUright]

22. I like the expiration date on the card

Good thru 01/05. :evilgrin:

[frank frankly]

15. sure sure, but fuck i am thrilled he didn't get a huge bounce

because he shouldn't!!

people hate bush.

[sfecap]

9. Remember...it wasn't about Saddam.

It was about WMDs.

Americans don't like to be bullshitted. Especially if it means their sons and daughters getting killed.

If Saddam didn't have the WMDs with him, this won't mean shit.

[w13rd0]

11. that's not a bounce...

...that's a thud. Yeah, even war supporters I spoke with were rather reserved with their exuberance. One even said, "Who cares? It's not like we've not heard fanfare gone sour before." US citizens have so little patience when it comes to...well...patience. The nonstop terror alerts (are we safe now?), photo ops, high-level captures with much pomp and propaganda. Eventually they just tune it out. Many that might have given the Fraudenchief the benefit of the doubt a year ago are not so quick to do so now. He's an unrepentent liar, he and his supporters just make noise to be making noise.

Oh, and plenty of people are saying, "Saddam?!? What happened to Ossama, 'Dead or Alive'?

[slinkerwink]

12. you might be right about terror alerts desensitizing american citizens

Too much---usually comes out as too little. It's like the story of the boy who cried wolf.

[Sean Reynolds]

18. Four points.......

WITHIN the MOE. Poor Bush, at least we know the American people aren't as clueless as he is.

[SahaleArm]

19. Give it a week - He'll get to 60+

The media will ensure this happens - It's spiderhole week...

[slinkerwink]

21. kick

[slinkerwink]

23. kick