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KNOW-THIS
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http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040629-065751-2344r.htm
Bush's approval rating at all-time low
New York, NY, Jun. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush's public approval rating is at its lowest-ever level, a New York Times/CBS News poll published Tuesday indicates.
Bush scored only 42 percent approval, with 51 percent unhappy with his leadership. Those are the worst statistics since Bush took office in January 2001.
The nationwide poll of 1,053 adults, including 875 registered voters, was taken by telephone June 23 to June 27. It has a margin of sampling error of 3 percentage points.
While the poll was conducted before Monday's handover of power to an interim Iraqi government, 60 percent of respondents, including a majority of independents, said the war has not been worth the cost.
As well, 45 percent said they had an unfavorable opinion of Bush himself, again the most negative measure the Times/CBS Poll has found since he took office.
Pollsters say in the past 25 years presidents with job approval ratings below 50 percent in the spring of election years have generally gone on to lose. Bush's father had a 34 percent job approval rating at this time in 1992.
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snakelady
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Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:54 pm
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shatoga
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Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:18 am
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Reference to an October 2000, Ohio State forum on Polling and elections:
(I watched and taped it from C-SPAN)
There was discussion of the "pressure to interpret the polls favorably" coming from the RNC.
That's what several pollsters' claimed.
That "margin of error" is pushed to the limit.
Wanna know what the poll numbers really are?
Subtract the margin of error from Bush's positives and give it to his opponent.
Usually 5%.
Zogby, of Zogby Polling was a bit more forthright:
"We count every Republican response twice on the belief that they are more likely to be out working and earning a living." -Zogby
(assuming Democrats are more likely home to answer the phone because they are 'on welfare' instead of out working)
Polls no longer reflect peoples' opinions.
Polls serve to convince people
of what the neo-cons want them to think the majority opinion is.
It's called media manipulation.
eg: 2 false calls election night 2000
First that Gore had won the election;
therefore Nader/Gore fence sitters falsely believed they were free to throw away their votes on Nader;
which tipped half a dozen western states narrowly into the Bush column.
Second that Bush had won Florida,
to get the other media to parrot the same disinformation and convince people.
Don't believe polls!
they are almost as false as the "unemployment" numbers that ignore everyone no longer drawing unemployment compensation.
(and assume everyone not getting unemployment checks has a job)
Don't believe polls!
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KNOW-THIS
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Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:42 am
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I'll tell you one thing, not once have I ever recieved a phone call for any survey like this, EVER! In fact, everyone I've ever asked about this says the same thing. It's nothing more than a psychological tool of manipulation. However, I'm still more than happy to report any anti-bush results to the public. |
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