New CNN-USA Today-Gallop poll. Bush mandate? 63% say NO.

[life_long_dem]

Does Bush have a mandate to advance the Republican agenda? A new CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll said only 29 percent said yes, 63 percent said no.

I was watching CNN's Late Edition today and this was shown towards the end of the show.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/28/le.01.html

[ramapo]

1. Does Bush Care ?

No...

[BlueCaliDem]

11. He's Never Before, So Why Should He Now?...N/T

[floridadem30]

2. There wouldn't be a mandate even if the poll showed 63 % saying yes

[Laelth]

3. If you ask me, that's the true result of the 2004 election.

29% hard core R's, 63% D's and undecideds who voted for Kerry. That leaves 8% of undecideds who voted for *. That's probably about right.

-Laelth

[Pirate Smile]

4. A lot of dumb asses actually voted for BushCo even though they disagree

with their policies.

It looks like Clinton's comment about "wrong and strong" was accurate.

Right now I am more angry at the 51% of the voters that voted for Bush then at the Bush Administration itself and that is really saying something because I despise the Bush Administration.

[Straight Shooter]

8. Not as many dumb asses as they would want us to believe

I contend bush did not get anywhere near 51 percent of the voters. I contend that John Kerry won the election. I contend that when all the necessary evidence comes to light, bush will not only have lost his "mandate" (code for "blank check"), he will be proven to have engineered the theft of election 2004.

Tainted election. bush is merely reaping the fruit of a poisoned tree.

[Pirate Smile]

12. I hope you are right and I am all for the investigations, recounts, etc.

The hardest thing to accept from this election is that a majority of the voters could have actually voted for Bush - just the idea of it makes me feel so alienated from half of this country it is extremely demoralizing.

[BlueCaliDem]

13. How Do We Know 51% Of the Voters...

...voted for Bush?

Anyway, even those, what 37% (29% blinders wearing Repubs, and 8% ill-informed "swing voters") of voters, are really deluded.

They're like those timid, zero-self-esteem women that marry abusive men because they've deluded themselves into believing, they "can change them".

Ugh!!

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[mom cat]

16. Es Verdad!

[Wright Patman]

6. Is this some kind of "exit poll"?

They only count as valid in former Soviet republics.

Bushco can claim these are "exit polls" taken from those about to "exit" the empire to seek refuge in one of the countries of the "free world" such as Canada or Ireland.

[Nite Owl]

7. Gee, and this is the guy that won?

If he really won where are all the people that voted for him? But that sort of conclusion alludes the msm since there was no voter fraud. Right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Ok anybody else smell a rat?

I know, I know we do... but still does not make sense unless.... FRAUD was practiced

[unblock]

10. this is the problem with running a campaign on smears and lies

his "mandate", (even assuming he actually won without cheating) consists mostly of not lying about vietnam medals.

maybe, just maybe, he's got a mandate to keep us safe. as if no other president had THAT particular mandate. that's like saying he has a mandate to be president, which as i mentioned above, even that is in doubt.

banana republicans through and through.

[Vogon_Glory]

14. Hey, Bush Voters, Here's A Reality Check!

Hey, Bush voters! When you voted for Gee Dubya Bush in 2004, you voted for a package deal. Your vote for Gee Dubya, whether you were willing to recognize it or not, was a vote for Gee Dubya's policies. If you're having buyer's remorse, get over it. You voted for the guy, he'll do it to you just as he's going to do it to the rest of us.

It's too late to do much after you wised up. Gee Dubya has four more years. His congressional supporters have two more years to do it to you. His allies in the Senate have, two, four, six years to go before you can hope to put the brakes on their activities.

Well, we tried to tell you different, but you weren't willing to listen. You voted for Gee Dubya Bush and in doing so you are letting him implement his policies. I hope you appreciate the learning experience at least as much as hard as we tried to keep the country from having to go through this painful learning experience.

[bleever]

15. In *'s mind, listening to the American people would be like

making policy based on a "focus group".

He's got too much integrity for that. ;)

[tsuki]

17. Oh happy day. FINALLY, CNN and Gallop got Bush's poll numbers

into the 60's. They have been trying since the election. They were just asking the wrong question!