Polls say Bush is up to 50% approval

What do you think? Is it rigged or are people starting to agree with the bastard.

welcome to our message board :hi:

Do you have a link to the polls you're citing?

Others don't show that. There seems to be a wide range right now.

Perhaps it's best to wait for a while and see what the trends seem to be.

assume that it's rigged.

And by identifying the poll source, we can also determine whether this is true or just bullshit.

Thanks.

a majority of Americans desparately want to believe everything the3 government says and will nod their heads in lemminglike agreement at the slightest thing.

either that

or we are as dumb as dirt.

At least for about 30-35% of the population.

the others are low 40s to high thirties. When it's all calculated out, Bush is still an incompetant dry drunk in some serious need of deep therapy.

fu<ked up. He has consistantly had Bush 4-10% above the others.

Trust me, they'll find 50% of the people liked the tie that Bush was wearing on a certain day and suddenly they think that means Bush's approval is improving.

Posts like this without a link to something, either the poll or the article, I hold suspect at best

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thread. But wait - I can drag my knuckles with the best of them -

"Polls show that Bush is wildly popular with a 78% approval rating!" (Among freeper trolls and the brain addled.) Results may vary. Consult a physician if symptoms of hysteria and hallucinations develop.

We don't put up "facts" without something to back it up.

Sorry: this was meant for the OP Strathos

You see it here (and on other websites) all the time of late -- we all know people who were formerly Bush supporters who have now had enough; we're seeing LTTEs in our newspapers from former supporters who are finally jumping off the bandwagon.

The most accurate 'poll' is listening to the people around you -- and more and more of them are backing away from this Idiot.

Uh, sorry... "Rassmussen" I mean.

86% of 150k people who respond in the MSNBC poll say impeach.

Spin away. haha.

Sort of like the ubiquitous "People say..." and when I hear that "People say" anything that suggests how "beloved," "misunderstood," "concerned," "dedicated," or whatever this pResident is, I truly wonder how stupid Americans must be. They don't even have to spin the news anymore. So many of us blatantly lap it up when they just "call it in..." :eyes:

:rofl:

Nice try, though, and welcome to DU yadda yadda yadda...

:sarcasm:

And I will replace AJ Hawk @ Linebacker for O.S.U.'s bowl game.

The boy is at 37% and has done nothing to increase his standing.

I'll cite my sources when you site yours, otherwise its just BS..

You just off by 2 %
Now at 86% at 150k plus respond.

rigged-was the poll done by NPR?

...that we ALL approve of him. :banghead:

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Diageo/Hotline RV has him at 50%.

All the others are bellow.

Whether they're sampling GOP heavily to get president Hee-Haw up, or whether the 24-7 marketing is working with no major disasters to expose corruption and incompetence. I'm more concerned about John"geewhiz gimme a hug"McCain polling so far ahead of Hillary or other democratic contenders. I'd feel happier about Bush going down in the polls if the democrats went up by a large margin. Or if people didn't think the media was liberal in the polls.

Gasoline prices are down from their peak, it's the holidays, and Iraq just had a Potemkin election. The sheeple are blinded by the happy talk. I'm sure the idiot is between 40% and 50% approval now.

Reality will start coming back later in January.

I guess, you can't produce it. Why are you post shit like this without link?

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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm


Sorry folks, I didn't have the link, but found it. I got this from a rethug, so that's why I was cautious.

Yeah, lots of us did. :rofl:

Their poll is always full of shit!!! They always poll republicans much higher!

MKJ

because that's one of the first things I read this morning.

Guys and gals, some of you seem to be attacking me and I swannie, I'm on your side, I just needed some help finding polls that didn't say his numbers were up. Google it.

The title of your OP indicates that more than one poll has gwb at (or as you so provocatively stated "up to") 50%. That would be of great interest to many of us here who watch the polling numbers closely.

I would assume you were trying to get attention drawn to your post. However, your OP is vague and does not give dates or specific data from the "polls". Nor does it cite from which polling organization these numbers were drawn.

And, you did not supply a link for verification.

If you want reasoned responses, please post a reasonable OP (original post). MKJ

more insight. I thought the rethugs were the judgmental ones.

I'm just curious about the discrepancy in your OP and the actual link. Thanks. MKJ

:shrug:

Not. First do your own damn research. Then back up what you say with links. Learn from your mistakes.

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Don't worry, others don't agree with Rasmussen. Read other threads here on DU to find them.

Welcome to DU.

It seems people are all to quick to jump someone instead of stepping back and reading a little more.

MKJ

MKJ

let me know. Also, don't think I'm a Bush supporter, I hate his fucking guts.

http://pollingreport.com/

MKJ

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Jesus, what does it take to convince you of that?

I swear some of you people are WAY WORSE than the neo-cons that you and I so despise and much quicker to judge and burn at the stake.

Because we get irritated at time wasting threads like this?

Do your research and put some thought into what you post BEFORE you post it.

:applause: MKJ

Maybe people are afraid to say that they disapprove of the Monkey because they fear the NSA is taking notes on the phone conversation.

:tinfoilhat:

Hopefully some of the pollsters will be able to see if this introduces a real bias.

Rasmussen is a Bush hack, and when he needs to skew his results, he alters the approach. Calling on weekends gives a much higher PUB sample than is real.

They're doing this so Bush will look like he has a good approval rating, before the mid-term elections next year. That way, they can steal the election fair and square.

If the REAL numbers were out, the Repugs would not be able to steal the election! If the public knows that his approval ratings were really around 19, 20%, they would never be able to pull it off.

It's a scam, short and simple.

It seems sometimes we're all too willing to let them believe whatever they want and we don't speak up enough.

and the questions that are asked in any given poll have to be scrutinized. Far too often pushpolloing is the culprit and demographics have a tremedous impact.

Somewhere, 50% 'of the people polled' will say they think bush is doing OK, however soutces from RW ideologues should be taken w/a very heavy pinch of salt.

I'm in Nebraska, people here despise bush, most won't openly say that, but I've seen enough over the past year to know bush is in hot water. If Nebraskans are sick of him, trust me, he doesn't have a leg to stand on, neither does his party.

I've gotten 27 people to change their voter's registrations from Republican to Independent, and 5 more to change to Democrat...People here in this blood red state are practical if nothing else, and bush is seen as a complete buffoon, except to the incredibly blind base.

Give a much more balanced view than any single poll. The downward trending of gwb's approval poll numbers is a clear pattern.

I'm seeing true conservatives turn from gwb on a variety of issues (posse comitus, the deficit, foreign debt and "nation building" for example).

Thanks for your report from Nebraska. MKJ

You see, I read a public forum for Nashville, TN where I constantly engage in debates with republicans. This morning one of those republicans quoted those poll numbers to me and I figured I could come here to find out if it were true. Only after going back and reading again did I notice the word "rasmussen" in his post, so I looked it up and posted the link further down the line.

a couple of vague sentences, with incorrect polling numbers and no verifiable link.

Rather than bristling and becoming defensive, as well as attacking those who requested verification, this post would have been the perfect response.

I hope that's instructive for the future, if you plan to stay. MKJ

I love this forum. I love the opinions of most everyone on here, but most of you attacked without any real reason. Thanks for making me NOT want to read this site anymore, post here anymore or support the DU!

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A lot of DU'ers have limited time to visit the site and are counting on OP's to be accurate and verifiable.

When you post information about poll(s), it generates a lot of interest and viewing by DU'ers. If you don't give credible information, you've wasted their time and effort, as well as diminished your credibility. This is really tough on those with dial-up connections.

Your have a responsibility to to those whose opinions you "love". And your profane, personal attacks are a direct violation of the DU rules..

Sorry you couldn't just learn from the experience instead of considering constructive feedback as attacks. MKJ

It looked to me like an honest misunderstanding. Sometimes DU gets "moles", which leads some DUers to be suspicious of newer posters. I hope you stick around. Welcome to DU!:)

Numbers are bound to be up, even without help from neocon pollsters, because of the Christmas season. People are more willing to be nice right now.

But just wait till their credit card bills come in, though, and people can't pay their bills because heating prices have gone sky high, and they can't afford to eat, so they'll have to take a stupid Bush poll on an empty stomach and freezing toes after they've just dragged their dying Christmas trees out to the road, shedding needles all the way... I'd like to see the poll numbers then.

Way to go Murikan's - last month he was a moron and presto - now he's not!

It's fucking magic!

I find it hard to believe that 50% of the people "polled" would choose to have the constitution
shredded the way it's being done by this administration. :cry:

george bush spies on regular americans because he cares about their safety. i dont trust these polls at all.

Yawwwn.

Hell, Clinton had a 70% approval rating on the day he was impeached. And boy did that piss off the wingnuts.