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| Bush Losing It; CNN Frothing at the Mouth |
| 2004-05-10 |
| President Bush holds a single-point lead over Democratic challenger John Kerry in the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of likely voters, but voters’ approval of Bush’s performance and support for the war in Iraq dropped to new lows in the survey.... The survey, conducted Friday through Sunday, found that among all adults -- not just likely voters -- only 46 percent approved of Bush’s performance in office -- the lowest rating of his presidency in this poll. After April’s heavy casualties in Iraq and the emerging scandal of the treatment of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops, only 44 percent said they believed the war was worthwhile -- another low. Fifty-four percent said last year’s invasion of Iraq was a mistake, and only 41 percent of adults said they believed Bush was doing a good job handling the war.... But here come the key points: Bush’s handling of terrorism issues remained his strongest point among American adults. Fifty-four percent of those surveyed said they approved of his performance. Those poll also said he would do a better job than Kerry by 17 percentage points -- 55-38. Only 41 percent of voters said they thought Bush was doing a good job handling the economy, with 56 percent disapproving; and 58 percent said they disapproved of how he was handling the war in Iraq.... So the lesson here is: I don’t like the way Bush is going about doing things in Iraq either, but on the overall WoT he’s doing fine. And Kerry...he’s in outer space. |
| Posted by:Rafael |
| #8 I love for the fact that over the last 3 months the President has taken whatever the left has thrown at him and GWB is still right there and the best part is GWB has not even gone on an all out attack against these elitist idiots. I believe at some point most Americans will get sick of the media beating the hell out of our President and they will do what will be the right thing to do, and that is vote GWB back for another 4 years. Then I hope he has been keeping score, and the gloves hit the floor and GWB bloodies lot's of noses in the next 5 years!! |
| Posted by: Long Hair Republican 2004-05-10 11:10:16 PM |
| #7 In other news: (Insert Polling Company name here) reports that if the election were held at 1200 PST in (insert any 14 square block area of any large city on the left coast), (popular leftist candidate) would win in a landslide. However, disturrbing results show that were the election held at 1700 PST in (especially leftleaning district in any large city on the left coast) (even more leftist candidate) would win. (Insert Polling Company name here) could not comment on the polling results, except to explain there was a margin of error of plus or minus 20 percent. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-05-10 11:05:42 PM |
| #6 I feel that these polls are not frequent enough to really keep me in the loop. Can we get one every fixe minutes or so? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-05-10 10:34:50 PM |
| #5 Given the odds the Dems will take a Bush victory to court, we'll probably have to wait until next February to find out who won. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-05-10 10:27:19 PM |
| #4 I tend not to give these polls much weight for several reasons. 1. many of us have caller ID. I don't answer the phone unless I know the caller 2. Many of us also have cell phones. And pollsters cannot call cell numbers. So I'm very leery of who they are actually polling. And it tends to get my blood pressure up when Kerry is doing too good. Zogby is now saying that Kerry will win the election. I think I'll wait till November to see. |
| Posted by: AF Lady 2004-05-10 9:56:07 PM |
| #3 CNN - All Abu Ghraib, all the time. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-05-10 9:46:04 PM |
| #2 I know, instead of a war run by politicians -- like Vietnam, let’s run the war in Iraq by polls. What a cool idea, why hasn’t any nation ever thought of waging war like that before? |
| Posted by: cingold 2004-05-10 9:42:42 PM |
| #1 This, after the media has been hyping the 'abuses in Iraqi prisoners' practically non-stop for over a week -- and before that the 9/11 Not bad. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-05-10 9:31:29 PM |