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I think it's funny how many of his lemming supporters are starting to abandon him. Even Joe Six-pack and his foot-washing bride are itching for the 2008 elections these days.
History? Too small of a sampling? I love it how the data is always wrong when it isn't in their favor. Hasn't that been the problem this whole time, fellas?
lets put this is perspective with the past 7 presidents second term approval ratings.
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46832 scroll down and read.
nothing new. Not to mention that will all the troubles the republicans have been having lately, the dems have failed to capitalize on them with anything. :cool:
Funny how depending upon what you read, you can get pretty much any slant you want to find. Today I did some google searching myself and found that Nixon was only at 39% approval rating in 1973 at the height of the Watergate controversy. I was pretty aware of such things at the time, and would have thought it was lower. I actually think our country is much more split along party lines now than it was then. But then again, the Democrats controlled Congress at that time as well, so you had both parties having some of the power.Quote:
Originally Posted by amsterdam
Like I've said before, an approval rating and five bucks will get you a Starbucks to go. Our society is so fickle and has such a short memory that a president can be in the 30's in their second term and be remembered as a demi-god, as is Reagan. He made some VERY wise decisions regarding getting fresh blood in for the last couple of years of his second term, something I think our current president would benefit from as well. It kept Reagan from being remembered mostly for the Iran-Contra scandal, and focused all of his legacy on ending the Cold War and securing America's place as THE world power. If GW keeps listening to the people who keep getting him into these messes, he'll have to keep constantly putting out the fires they create.
Onward!
When will i hear that tune will the final straw fall? When will the american people stop being a bunch of slap around pussies and start shooting at goverment officials. When will people hear the news from fox,abc,and nbc and go BULLSHIT! When will the christian fundamentalists shut the fuck up and go back to thumpen there bibles in peace. I thought it was when we found out that we are 240 billion dollars in debt to China. I thought it was when we found out that the intelligence leading to the Iraq war were false. When will people remember we are not in Iraq to fight fucking terrorists
Terrorists only exist in our goverment. Syria is not destablising the middle east the U.S. of king Bush are.
You obviously missed my previous lesson on statistics so let me repost it for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tholiak
...Sure they're not totally accurate, but they are more so than just thinking that everyone must agree with you. If you flip a coin ten times and it comes up heads five of those times, do you really need to flip it a hundred times to find out heads comes up fifty times? Couldn't you project the results by using the data you culled from flipping it ten times?....
And remember, the way these polls are conduct isn't that they go to the most liberal city in the US and ask only the people wearing "I hate Bush" t-shirts, they randomly call people from all across this country and ask them their opinions. Then again maybe all the Bush supporters are the ones who tell the callers to go fuck themselves because they don't have a second to say yes or no.
Hey, maybe if you keep telling people this then they'll roll over and accept mediocrity like you do (I noticed you went with the "you don't know history" taunt again. Nice). Or maybe you should read this: Bush and the Dubious Honor of a Second Term. Bush signed up for this, and he obviously can't hack it.Quote:
Originally Posted by amsterdam
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Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. -- George Santayana, Philosopher, poet, literary & cultural critic and a principal figure in Classical American Philosophy
this is old news,,,CBS weighted their poll to include a whopping 23.8% republicans???
get the fuck outta here with that shit. Too funny. It's almost as if you lefties dont ever bother to even glance at the sampling. Thats why you loose at the ballot box.
We have a republican president, RE-ELECTED with the most votes for a presidential candidate in this countries history, a republican senate and a republican house,but poll results should be weighted on the assumption that only 23.8% of the population are republicans? RIGHT.