In a new USA Today/Gallup poll
released today, Bush fell to 31%, a new low, with a 65% disapproval rating, a new high. 1,013 people participated in the poll, and I’m pleased to say I got called for this one. I’m happy that my “STRONG DISAPPROVAL!!!!!” answer got factored into the statistics Rove needs to read this week. Heh heh.
This isn’t much of a diary, but I thought this was cool. This was the first time I’ve ever been called for a national political poll.
At 31% percent..W is no longer mainstream. I think once it goes below 30% W and the VP should resign for the good of America.
Why not have them resign now?
Cheney is already at 18% last I saw. Put the two of them together and their aggregate rating has to be somewhere in the 20s.
There will never be any resignations, only more catapulting the propaganda.
unfortunately you are right. The tactic of a dictator is to never surrender, never give up. They’ll just push all the harder.
Personally, I think it is UNPATRIOTIC for a W & VP to remain in office when 79% percent of us flag waving, Patriotic Americans disapprove of thier job performace. How is that for spinning?
And if I remember correctly from the 2004 election polling, doesn’t Gallup tend to weight their samples too heavily with Republicans?
Yes, that was true before and during the election in 2004, but they are no longer the egregious offenders that they were.
See this link to Political Arithmetik.
No doubt they are building credibility now so they can abuse it again later, but for the moment, the house effect at Gallup is less than one pt. to the HIGH side according to the above reference.
Interesting. I also had the impression that Gallup was biased toward Republicans.
It was fascinating to take the poll. It took about 30 minutes and must have covered 75 questions. I wish I had kept notes. The questions were all over the map, including serious political issues, demographic stuff, puff about popular culture, questions on religion, etc. Only one question involved Bush directly, and that question came very early in the poll. The rest is apparently a lot of stuff designed by statisticians and social scientists. Fascinating.
At least 10 questions were on the current immigration debate. I had the impression that the questions were rather stupid (speaking as an immigration lawyer with a more nuanced than usual view of the problem)–and I also thought they were quite clearly tilted toward right-wing responses. I was pretty vocal about that, but all you get (ostensibly) are multiple choice answers.
However, I had the impression from the interviewer (who said she was from Lincoln, NE, but sounded like Manhattan, NY) that she had some discretion on who to listen to and who to hang up on.
My favorite question was when she asked me whether I considered myself as Upper, Upper-Middle, Middle, Lower-Middle, or Lower class. Naturally I immediately answered “Upper.” My reason for that: my family came to this continent before the United States and before the damned Bushes, and no matter when they arrived they always had more class than the Bushes, so no way in Hell am I going to say I’m in a class lower than the Bush Crime Family.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have a way to assure that that got from my poll response to the summary on Yahoo!, although I tried!
This is me, standing on my chair doing the HAPPY DANCE!
Couldn’t happen to a beeter guy. . .(for some strange reason I keep hearing Tina Turner singing proud Mary. . .must have been something I ate.)
31%. Stll.Too.High.
That IS cool. How satisfying to express your negative opinion about W (as I’m sure you do on a daily basis) but this time see your opinion reported to the world. Good job!