23% Approval 100% Fuhgedaboutit
(George W. Bush)
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you gotta admit, the camera loves this guy.
It loved Howdy Doody, too…. Just saying….
Maybe if WE were inanimate objects, we would love him too…
loves makin him look like a douche
XD
23% approval is still 15% higher than the Democrat Congress
Bush’s approval rating (as of the 29th of last month): 30%
Congress’ approval rating (as of the 18th of last month): 19%
I’ve sources to back that up, if you must know.
And I believe Bush’s approval rating has been higher than congress’ for probably over two years.
there are literally hundreds of different polling organizations that do job approval polling for the president. I just went with the absolute lowest being 23% conducted by LA Times/Bloomberg between 6/19 and 6/23, one week before he bumped up to a 30% approval.
Bush’s absolute lowest is 23%. Congress’ is 19% So he’s doing better by 4%
And the last time Congress had a higher approval rating than him was last july. 37 to 29 in mid July 07, so not even a full year yet.
The latest Rasmussen poll shows congressional approval (good or excellent) at 9%. Ouch.
I meant no disrespect. I actually like the photo. It’s comical in it’s own right, and your verbiage fits it well. I was just saying that, over the last few years, his average approval has been higher than Congress’ average approval. No harm or bias or anything else intended. Just facts here. I apologise if it was taken otherwise.
No disrespect suspected.
I thought you were just correcting my number of 23% So I apologize if my reply seemed a bit prickly.
Meh. We’re cool.
His ratings will improve as we start to pull out of Iraq victoriously and the Iraqui army takes over. History will look favorably on him.
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You.Are.An.Idiot.
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*coughing fit*
Funny because CNN says so, right?
well, CNN is funny
Hi Ema!
Totally disagree with you, but It’s nice to see you.
Hi DW! Thanks!
Yeah I know, where you been ema?
Hi Jain! I was on vacation in the mountains, didn’t look at my laptop for 5 whole days!
Wow. Your willpower amazes me… *awe*
Oh, well I have to admit it wasnt entirely willpower, I forgot to bring my power supply…
But it turned out good for me.
History is written by the victors. If the vote goes right, he’ll be remembered favorably. If it goes left, he’ll be remembered acurately.
Your thinking of wars. If the vote goes right we won’t kill everyone who voted against us. Nor, will we replace the liberal congress. I don’t know what the democrat platform on this issue is…..
I was not thinking of wars, but I do think that he got us into this one…. under false pretenses.
hehehehe. I assume that’s sarcasm, there, Ema. It’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all week. Thanks for that.
No, not really, he is not a bad president at all. He has accomplished what is the main purpose of our federal government and that is keeping us safe. We are safer now, although I do think they could have done it faster and we rid a country of a cruel dictator. We are pretty much done in Iraq and even the Iraquis want a timetable for withdrawal. They wouldn’t have asked if they felt they still needed us there. I believe our country is good and we are worth protecting, I guess some may think that is funny.
The only way history will look favorably on this warmonger is if his administration writes the books.
I just conducted a poll in which The President recieved 0% approval rating amonst the last 5 people I polled.
How can you poll anybody if you are floppy? (sorry, saw the low hanging fruit and took it.) Ejecting now.
Polls are conducted with hundreds and often thousands of participants from population-representing age, sex, race, income, and education participants (+/- whatever they may say – some are more liberal, some more conservative).
I don’t think there are any five people you could gather together who would be an accurate representation of the opinion of the entire country. …But if you could… who do you think would fit the bill? Five people? I have no answer for this. I just think it would be interesting, if anyone has an answer.
That’s easy, just find to 5 people with the 5 most disparate opinions. That’d probably be the most accurate. And totally useless.
It’d be hard, because I don’t think 20% of America thinks exactly the same way right now, unless you want to count uneducated voters who vote strictly along party lines, in which case, you could probably find 40% on either side who don’t think before they vote (out of ~50% on either side).
But you’re correct – it would be useless. That was kinda my point.
Yeah, I was merely pointing out that in many cases, the prevailing opinion in this country is to disagree with others…
Rather than form your own thoughts I mean.
Yeah. I gotcha.
the poll of 5 people was a joke to show how you can make a poll to any desired result. the fact you are posting response after response show you just dont get it
Your poll showed no signs of sarcasm. And, well, it wasn’t funny. As a joke, it fails.
Pole comment, that is.
(wow, look at the nesting) ; )
I kinda think the whole point of sarcasm is that it doesn’t have flashing lights that say “hey, look at the sarcasm!”. floppydonkey’s post was obviously sarcastic because what kind of idiot (I know, this is rhetorical, don’t answer it) would really believe they would get an accurate poll out of 5 people. Hence, sarcasm.
Unless you were being sarcastic when you posted that, in which case…. (this could go on forever but the nesting won’t allow it)
Congress’ approval rating just dipped to SINGLE DIGITS
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/congress-unpopu.html
The Supreme Court’s approval numbers beat them both, haha!
And Congressional approval ratings are now single digits.
The rating for Congress reflects when people are asked how they feel about Congress as a whole. The rating is usually low and is rather missleading when you consider that people generally have a high opinion of their own Senator(s) and Representative , especially their Representative sice Reps have something like a 94% incumbency rate. So pretty much people think all of Congress sucks but their guys are just “hanging with a bad crowd”.
The 19% for Congress carries no weight because we don’t elect a whole Congress we elect individuals. President Bush’s low number have some more meaning but popularity isn’t a measure of how well a person is doing their job. In a job like his there are going to be difficult unpopular decisions that will make people dislike you. The approval rating only tells you how popular the President is among approx. 1,500 random (and probably very uninformed) voters, it doesn’t tell you how good a president he is.
That having been said it is my opinion that when you look beyond mere popularity you will find that Pres. Bush is a horrible president, maybe even our worst. And Congress is more interested in making political gain then doing its job.
Andrew,
You’re using logic. That doesn’t work here because ZOMG! 23% is BETTER than 19%!!1!!
Dontchaknow that means the president is doing a great job because he has a higher #. Duh.
(BTW, I wholeheartedly agree with you because I can read! So I read the papers rather than listen to Fox for my news. I know, I know, rather than make me an informed citizen I must just be a crazazy liberal lefty commie pinko. Never mind that I’m not, but what’s a little faktz when you’re up against TheLarrikin? Now he’s got SOURCES!)
For those unfamiliar with the concept, this would be the exact opposite of Crotchwaffletude (a wholly owned subsidiary of Douchebaggus, LLC.)
all polls are flawed data. they are usually done in the city, which has a notoriously liberal slant, and are only published if they can garner ratings. try doing a gallup poll of the midwest out in agriculture country and you’ll get something completely different. my point is not that the polls misrepresent the public, but that you can get any measure you really want by controling who you poll and where. this is all douchebaggery.
“The City”? Which city is that exactly? Is that like saying that us midwesterners are just simple-minded country folk that don’t care for those strange citified folks with their new-fangled liberal ideas? Hate to break it to you, but my extended family on my mother’s side alone numbers about 50 people, and 95% of them are democrats. We all live in the midwest, more than two hours away from the nearest big city.
on record, cities are usually liberal and the less populated areas are conservative. do you agree?
Actually, polls are (and have to be) completely random. Population area has no bearing in the selection. See link. (It’s a PDF file.)
http://media.gallup.com/PDF/FAQ/HowArePolls.pdf
Meh, can’t really argue with that. Large cities tend to be a melting pot of cultures. They come into contact with new people and ideas all the time. This is sometimes known as “liberalism”. It’s an awesome way to live, you should all try it sometime.
Sorry- I tried, but my IQ was too high.
And large cities tend to produce more taxes than they take in federal mony, while places like the midwest take more in federal revenues than they pay in taxes. You conservatives would have a lot more standing if you weren’t parasites on the real wealth producers of the US. If you want to start reducing big government, first give up farm subsidies.
city with a ‘notoriously liberal slant’? sign me up for that! i live in the urban core ov my particular ‘ville, and it’s red-state retards as far as the eye can see.
Dear blue state ass-hatted retard (I know, I don’t normally attack personally, but this sphincter biscuit seemed to need it), I think he is talking about actual cities: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland, etc. The downtown meccas of welfare and other entitlements. Find me one major city whose voting precincts have slanted conservative.
Wow… way to Read Too Much Into Things, DW.
… Sources that are factual are the same as facts (with an ‘s’, indeed).
I’m not saying that Bush is doing a better job than Congress – simply that his numbers _are_ higher, and nobody ever seems to mention that.
This number has nothing to do with popularity, but simply, how well a random (more or less, depending on the poll conductors) selection of citizens think an office is doing it’s job.
I wish people would get off their party-defending platforms and get back to real life. I have stated my positions multiple times. Read through some more of the political comments to see them. I won’t bash you (well, maybe with facts, or in sarcasm), but I will argue intelligently with intelligent people, if they represent themselves, well, intelligently. I’m not saying that you aren’t, or that you have not, but rather simply stating, for whomever is reading.
Senators not senator(s). Every state in the union has two senators. It’s in Article I of the Constitution.
Actually since the sentence is stating that people usually like one or both of their Senators, my punctuation was correct. But way to miss the forest for the trees and nitpick your way into oblivion. Now put your head down on your desk for some quiet time.
The idea that congresscritters are ninety-something percent reelected hardly shows that they are loved; it shows how an incumbent is able to generate a huge war-chest, scaring away serious contenders.
Hurrah for your comment, Andrew!
BTW: How does any rating for congress negate Bush’s bad rating? One being bad doesn’t make the other good. They can both be not so fabulous. I’m a little pissed at many of those supposedly on my team. Pelosi et al. have dropped the ball more than once as far as I’m concerned. Being unhappy with congress doesn’t make me love Bush. I’m not thrilled with congress, with many individuals in congress AND with Bush and his cronies. Just sayin’. There can be lots of not good in Washington.
You point is certainly valid. I just remember all of the wonderful things the Dems were gonna do when they got into office. Success? Zero. Dem leadership in Congress=FAIL.
Let’s not forget that the reason the democrats got in power was because the American people were not too happy with the way the republican congress was running things. If congress’ approval rating is low then it is low for ALL of congress, republicans and democrats alike. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a democrat but I do take a somewhat cynical view of most politicians in general. Are they more concerned with doing what their constituants have voted them to do or are they more concerned in winning the current game of partisan one upmanship and keeping their jobs. At its best congress is a large group of people with conflicting ideas on government and the way to get things done. Do I wish the democrats elected would stop writing blank checks for this never ending war, you bet. Does the fact that they continue to do so mean that I’m going to vote for a republican who will also write blank checks for this never ending war, not so much.
Also, don’t forget that the Repubs are roadblocking everything in the Senate. EVERYTHING is subject to a repub filibuster now. Funny how the Repubs wanted to get rid of the filibuster back when they were in power… I can haz hypocrisy?
Bush isnt the worst president ever. He could never come close to Carter or LBJ.
Bush’s numbers have always reflected his popularity as well as disagreement with his policies rather that how he did his job. People didnt like being in Iraq so they dont think hes doing a good job. Bush hasnt been a perfect president by any stretch. And for a guy who voted twice for him, I think effed up in a few areas, not fixing illegal immigration being the worst. All the bad things considered, Im still glad Gore and Kerry lost. There were others I would have rather been elected in 00 and 04. However, given the choices, Bush was the best candidate.
Almost all elections are a matter of voting for the “least worst” candidate !
yo harper
Also, don’t forget that the Repubs are roadblocking everything in the Senate. EVERYTHING is subject to a repub filibuster now. Funny how the Repubs wanted to get rid of the filibuster back when they were in power… I can haz hypocrisy?
Hmmm. A short memory, have we? No one in either party ever seriously considered ‘getting rid of the filibuster’. In fact, the issue was that the Republicans wanted to force the Dems to actually filibuster, which means they would have to stay on the floor speaking, as in olden days, rather than simply declaring a filibuster to stop a vote. Do a little homework before you vent.
Um, you might want to read up a little on the “nuclear option,” whereby the (Republican) Senate would eliminate the filibuster through some cagey parliamentary actions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option
Actually, I must admit that I thought this was first done in the 2005 Senate, I was not aware that it had been done previously as well.
In any case, read the above link — in fact, in 2005, the Repubs sought to get rid of the filibuster.
ps Congress is still @ 9%
= fail
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