Voters Find Bush More Compassionate, Compatible, Likeable than Kerry

May 2— George W. Bush has an edge on John Kerry on the personal attributes of compassion, values and likeability, another reason Bush has improved his overall position against Kerry since the Democratic primaries.

Americans, by an eight-point margin, pick Bush over Kerry as "friendly and likeable" and as "caring and compassionate," and by a seven-point margin as someone who "shares my values and beliefs," an ABCNEWS/Washington Post poll finds.

The two are about even (Bush +4, too close for polling tolerances) on another positive attribute, being a "people person," and they're also about evenly matched on two negative attributes — being "cold and distant" and having a "boring personality."

Believe this at your own peril: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/US/bush_kerry_likeability_poll_040502.html

:shrug:

I ain't seeing the same thing these garbonzo beans are seeing.

Where speaking clearly and concisely is worth far less than stumbling over simple words, where adapting to changing circumstances is worth less than bulling ahead with something that isn't working because you are incapable of change. It's seen as folksy but decisive.

You know, moron land.

Likable, I can see in a perverted sort of way, but compassionate? He hasn't gone to a soldier's funeral. He doesn't care squat about them or anyone out of work or anyone who can't buy their medicine? WTF is that about?

the people as they've been doing right along. They're prepping for the "win". The article is total BS!

We are a country of dumbasses, and we love our dumbass president.

Got a problem with that?

feel better about themselves.

George Bush: Hero of the Stupid

n/t.

.. calling him a "major league asshole". That was at a SCHOOL event during the last campaign. Perhaps just a montage of all the hateful, cruel thing Bush has said in the past four years? Like the horrible things he's said to reporters? How about the "trifecta" joke? Or perhaps looking for the WMD under his fucking couch!

Gore's people allowed him to be portrayed as cold and distant, when in fact he's a much, much nicer person than Bush. Where are Kerry's people? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to beat Bush at his own game. Kerry needs to do the talk shows a lot.. he needs to dress more casually more often, and surprise some people at Little League games... They need to put more stories into the media stressing Kerry's nice personality (Actually, I have no freakin' idea whether Kerry is personable or not... that's pretty bad considering I"m a liberal! Someone isn't doing their job very well!)

....a New York Times reporter? This is a message poll...Kerry has got to come up with a distinct message, that is not simply a reaction to something the Bushies have said. The message has to be simple and plain spoken...Clinton was a master at this.

,...pervasively consumed the best elements of humanity.

BUT,...the human spirit always, ALWAYS,...SHINES through such challenges.

And, in this "universe",...that spirit travels far more quickly than ever before. Just watch it travel. These are the most amazing times for the influence of everything that is beautiful about the human spirit. WE have more advantage than we had ever possessed.

O8)

Have you? Has anyone else in here?

Bush's compassion is best illustrated by his mocking parody of Karla Faye Tucker when Bush said: "Please don't kill me!"

4.5 % error margin is real sketchy, Most real polls are 3.1%

Methodology

This ABCNEWS/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone April 21-25, 2004, among a random national sample of 1,021 adults. The results have a 4.5-point error margin. TNS of Horsham, Pa.

Kerry has $25 mil of new ads going national this month. So far, it's been all Bush so this really does not scare me at all.

Never have there been such a group of collective liars as those who work for the Whoreshington Post.

And, there's no more hope for this country. It's all over. We're done!

:argh:

If anyone needs me, I'll be in Utrecht.

except to really, really rich folks and donor multinational corporations?

:evilfrown:

Oh wait, that wasn't compassion.

How about when he went up to Al Hunt and his 4 year old daughter and told him he was a fucking son of a bitch?

Man, this is going to be harder than I though!

http://www.thisistheshit.org/2004_04_01_shit_archive.html#108292088175774917

...Kerry still trails in polls

Seriously, people are stupid. I know a woman who told me she voted for Bush b/c he looks good in blue jeans.

nope, no way. I no longer believe pollsters...at all.....period. I will do my own 'polling' - Thank You.

These people are downright stupid.

These poll numbers are hilarious...




and so is this..

Thanx for a good laugh!

we really ARE living in an 'Alice in Wonderland' World! :argh: :shrug: :mad:

then I want the pill that makes me small :evilgrin:

Jenn

But if you would like a pill that makes you "big", I get a hunnert pieces o' spam a day for those.....:7

the chimp is about as likeable as a hemmoroid, as compassionate as a Nazi, and shares none of my beliefs and values because I'm not a lying, sociopath, homocidal maniac.

These pathetic attempts to portray Kerry as unfriendly, uncaring, and someone with alien "beliefs and values" is laughable. I smell the stink of media whore desperation.

This is why Kerry needs to get on the offensive and get a war room and go to war!

:puke: :puke: :puke: must be nice to be able to BUY the opinions...assholes :mad:

Jenn

Enough said

Their War Chest is doing nothing but hemorrhaging $$$$$$.

coming to them.

:scared:

barred on the truth, II believe this numbers would reflect the opposite. The Media is corporate owned and Corporation USA has given Bush is 200 mil.

Dumbya is seen a lot more and the Chimp-in-Chief is the king of the photo-op ... plus, he's bungling of the English language is seen as "sincere" since:

speaking clear and precise = rehearsed and calculated
and the opposite = speaking from the heart

also, half the people in the country are this guy

threats!!!

Was this taken in St. Louis?

Kerry will start to catch on. People aren't on to Bush yet. There is still a 9/11 bubble around Junior, but it's starting to wear thin.

It's as if the pollsters asked themselves "What poll can we do that Bush will do well in?" It's a sham.

I think that they need to have Kerry show a little sense of humor. I really got behind Clinton when I finally got to see him on the tonight show. Gore there was a moment on the bus that showed he had a great sense of humor. I always prayed for more because most of the time he looked just too controlled.

They'e the a**h***s that are putting this false news or propaganda...

nuff said

in any sense of the word...but our whore media wants people to think they do. Ignore it!

than Al Gore was. Will we ever fucking learn?

That is utter nonsense and I am going to tell them so.

MAybe they are talking about Poppy.

"Who cares what you think?"

You really caught the *spirit* of this guy...

on edit, a close second

Condi will be pissed! :evilgrin:

to have some effect.

Every single time. Every single discussion.

The dems always either begin or insert "what a wonderful, nice man" that idiot is!

I am so sick of it.

You don't have to call the guy names like we do, but KEEP Y0UR DAMNED MOUTHS SHUT when it comes to ANY praise of bunkerboy!

And we are surprised?!

they WANT what you WISH they didn't want.

white male supremacy.

social darwinism.

exterm... camps

"he caaaaaares that we yearn for that!" they cry out.

Are people that stupid? Are people REALLY basing their opinion on the man who will run our country on whether he's fucking "likable?" I've heard people say they like the chimp because he has a cute tush, but shit, man, this is preposterous!!!! Look at his freaking record! Look at the little he has done for the people in this country! Look at how stupid he has been in almost every single thing he's done since January 20, 2001!!! I can't fucking believe that people are basing their opinion--and their votes!!!--of this mean, stupid piece of shit who has ruined this country for the past 3+ years on the perception that he's more "likable!!!!!"

This is the downfall of America--the stupid, idiotic people whose votes are based on nothing other than the complete propaganda package that the conservatives have created, with the dumbass and biggest phony in this country at the helm of our country. Yikes. Canada, here I come.

He needs to play his guitar and record with Sting, or Paul Simom, or Paul McCartney for example. After all, Ozzy Osborne practically slept in Lincoln's bedroom. Go figure that someone that eats bats and breaks guitars on stage, would appeal to the Village Idiot and the morons that think he is a cool dude!!

"This ABCNEWS/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone April 21-25, 2004, among a random national sample of 1,021 adults. The results have a 4.5-point error margin. Sampling, data collection and tabulation were done by TNS of Horsham, Pa."
After Charlie Gibson exposing himself as a raving right winger in the Kerry interview, EVERYTHING that regurgitates out of ABC is suspect.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The White House on Tuesday released a list of 128 government programs that it plans to cut back or eliminate, including money for drug treatment centers and secondary school counselors and modernization of the air traffic system.

The administration is also proposing cuts in federal grants to local police, fire and emergency rescue departments.

http://truthout.org/docs_04/020504B.shtml

*Let's face it! We have a vast number of ignorant &/or stupid Americans.

...is because DEMOCRATS haven't been doing their job as the loyal opposition. They've let too many things slide...too many lies to go unchallenged and Bushie corruption to go without prosecution.

But I don't believe this article for one second.

I'm guessing it's makeup call to the White House by ABC for the Nightline flap that should not have been controversial in the first place.

n/t

uh, I don't think so. Probably one of the most uncompassionate and unlikeable beings on the planet, IMO.

Everytime I hear about a poll I know what that newspaper wants us to believe and vote like. Polls are media's way of influencing us and our elections.

absolutely. WMDS!

...from the bu$hit White House and I expect the "bu$hit-is-God-and He-Already-Won-So-Don't-Bother-to-Vote" propOganda to therefore get miles deep the closer to November we get....everyone don your rubber suits and gas masks 'cause we're going swimming through a lotta bu$hit in the next few months.

They're TRYING to discourage Democrats from voting by attempting to convince them that bu$hit has already won and/or is a shoe-in (so don't even bother voting for anyone else).


BU$HIT ALERT!!!
BU$HIT ALERT!!!
BU$HIT ALERT!!!


Don't let it get to you folks, and DO NOT let it discourage anyone you know from voting - tell them about this tactic. The Repukes and their butkissing media use it EVERY ELECTION to try to discourage folks from voting and/or Democratic. DON'T LET THEM do this to ya!!

We R Fkd.

but if Bush is president again the disapointment first then the shock of incomprehension in France will be tremendous ! The french are so SURE you can't elect Bush twice !!(I know, I know but you see what I mean). :wow: :wow: :wow:
I really fear that the gap between our two countries would take decades to be repeared so the image of USA would be damaged....I really fear a major divorce and a major rise of anti-americanism even among the elites and the intellectuals.

EDIT: And to those who believe that the french and especialy the intellectuals are already anti-america I'd say that I'm talking about something really, really different, something much more about hatred :scared: :cry: :scared:
Today, Bush and the americans are two different things but if Bush is elected again.....

This needs to be emphasized to Europeans. He was appointed in what amounted to a bloodless coup d'etat. The meaning of this can't be overstated. Then he presides over a contrived national security diaster to conceal his lack of legitimacy a la Machiavelli's Discourses and marches off to a fraudulent and pre-planned war.

Our political system is derailed. Our elections are rigged. That is why a bio warfare defense contractor was allowed to interfere with and completely block election night polling. It would have revealed that several of the 2002 elections were rigged. The covert group behind them is likely the same group that brought the anthrax attacks in 2001. Our government refuses even to investigate these matters or pursue some of the most obvious 911 leads because of what they would show.

It is likely that the same will occur in 2004. The Europeans need to examine their intelligence agencies very carefully to see what extent they or other foreign agencies have been involved in bringing us down this road. Suspect intelligence agencies are Germany, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. I think some of these nations see it as somehow to their advantage for America to go fascist.

On edit: Of course, I forgot England.

An obvious result of starving our educational system, and in particular, art education.

Either that, or we really are through the looking glass, people. God help us.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

Which of these two candidates is more likely to understand a connection between cause and effect?

Which of these two candidates is more likely to flee like a rat during an invasion?

Which of these two candidates is more likely to think about his actions as President?

Which candidate is more likely to try diplomacy before using nuclear weapons?

Which candidate is more likely to use fuzzy math when deciding how much to tax and spend?

Which candidate is more likely to care about the healthcare of your children or loved ones?

So people thingk Chimpy "shares my values and beliefs,"?

Didn't know there were that many evil people in this country...We're doomed if there is...Hell, they ALL can't be camp Kapos....

In modern history, the man who won the presidency is the one who is perceived to be the most likable. The one exception was Richard Nixon. This is not good if people think that bush is more compassionate and likable. :puke:

without knowing how many of those polled were Dems and how many were Repubs, this poll is completely meaningless. In fact, if a higher percentage of those polled are Repubs then the margin between the two, the results are VERY bad for Bush. The widest gap between the two is 8... was there a higher margin then 8 between the number of Dems and the number of Repubs polled? If more Repubs were polled over that 8 point margin, this poll actually spells disaster for Bush as it indicates that Repubs are defecting to Kerry while the Dems are Kerry all the way.

Just more propaganda from a brown-nosing media.

That is the media`s only purpose right now. Until there is another Democrat`s penis to chase. That will be the priority.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

Bush Kerry
Is a friendly and likeable person 44 36

Sometimes seems cold and distant 39 36

So Bush is both more "friendly and likeable" at the same time that he is more "cold and distant".

I agree with others that this reflects name recognition, and a certain amount of knee jerk religious affiliation.

Kerry risks his life to save a man in Vietnam, but Bush is more caring? And did you ever see those videos on Letterman where he shows george pretending to be interested? Oh crap now I'm all fired up!

Is he that kind of likable ? Didn't think so.

I keep seeing people say that the polls don't matter. They DO matter. At least to the sheep who believe in them. That's all it will take to sway them one way or another. "Oh, George is more compassionate than John. I'm going to vote for him!"

People don't study the facts. They let others do their thinking for them. It's much easier that way.

Please do NOT dismiss the polls. Don't believe them but don't think that others won't.

Mickey should run on the Republican ticket in 2008!!

I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I JUST WANT TO F***ING PUT MY HEAD THROUGH MY MONITOR! What is WRONG with people? GET ME OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE!

:argh:

with the help of Bambi and Mr. Rodgers.

5 outta 6 Merkins think cooties come from Moonbeams.

10 outta 3 Merkins love George Bush because he loves Jesus and puppies.

I hope you American liberals can somehow win the hearts and minds of those "bob boudelangs".

George Bush is the man they would most want to get drunk and beat up some liberal wack jobs with.

One thing we have to do is constantly remind voters how greed and profits for the wealthy trump every other value in Bush. Portraying him as a money grubbing unrepentant stooge is not hard but we can't depend much on the media to do it. The only place Junior gets any compassionate traction is on the abortion issue. I got a letter in our local paper (actually only part of a letter) which pointed out that all his pro-life talk was out the window when it came down to making money. I talked about Red China's abortion policies and eugenics and how Cheney that week was over there selling them nuclear reactors and how Uncle Prescott was head of the Sino-US Chamber of Commerce. When I personally pointed this out to some pro-life, pro-Bush relatives they actually looked physically sick. We have to get an offense going against the corrupt little stooge.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/service/Help/abcmail_news.html

Ask Dalia how the fuck she can say that her bullshit poll shows "another reason Bush has improved his overall position against Kerry since the Democratic primaries." It's a fucking guess, and it ends up in the lead of an ABC.com story. What an idiot.

These people work for the White House, folks. And the only way we're going to stop them is to hit their pocketbooks.If you're going to threaten to boycott ABC you have to be prepared to really do it.

didn't we learn anything four years ago? why do we keep trying to win with the best "qualified" candidate. we are preaching to the choir. people that care about policies and nuances, and are well informed through objective sources are ALREADY VOTING FOR WHOEVER WE GIVE THEM THAT ISN'T BUSH!!! The swing voters that we need to win over are fundamentally ignorant and do not give a shit about politics, and will look briefly at the two candidates and judge them by appearance, manner, and PERCIEVED honesty, and vote for the the one they would rather have a beer with. This is why we SORELY need Edwards as veep, to even have a chance at winning. He is the only candidate that is superficially more likeable than bush. Bill Clinton was a winner twice against very difficult odds, but it had almost NOTHING to do with his qualifications. He was somebody that women wanted to fuck, and men wanted to hang out with. That will win the swing vote every single time. Kerry, folks, is not that person. This election could have been a landslide, but will be just as close as 2000, because once again, we have a very boring candidate.

Tell that to the Iraqi nothers who have their children's heads blown off, or to any of them who now have to live with the mess * has created. Who are these Americans ABC polled any way??? Where have they had their heads up recently to be be making such an assessment?

Most people just DON'T KNOW Kerry except for what the Bush cabal tells them on TV.

That will hopefully change.

They were propagated as loving, caring for their nations, always right in their decisions, wise beyond questioning. People were happily sacrificing their life, that of their children and that of others for these monsters.

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This is getting absolutely ridiculous. I don't believe a word of this.

How could anyone think a war-monger like Bush* could be compassionate?