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  • The numbers don't add up to 100%. Did these people neither approve nor disapprove? Did they have no opinion? How can they have no opinion after all this time? WTF is wrong with them?
    • Actually, you'll notice that 6% undecided is very consistent, even reproducible. That's about the floor value for undecideds in polls in the States.
      • I dislike knowing 6% are too spineless, ignorant, or drugged on TV to answer a simple question. Thanks anyway.
        • It does seem absurd that 6% don't have an opinion, one way or another, on probably the most polarizing administration in our country's history.

          I think you're right about the "drugged on TV" comment. If it's not a reality show, some people just won't care.

          • Re:6% ? (Score:2)

            by Nevyn ( 5505 ) *

            To be fair, I think some of it might be a case of:

            • "poll" robot caller rings up
            • person puts life on hold to answer
            • hi just like to ask you about ...
            • person beats phone to death, accidentaly seleting "don't know"

            ...well at least I hope so, then again every now and again I see jerry springer etc. and think "gee these people vote too".

            • Heh, you're probably right.

              I was called by a pollbot during the 2004 election season, and was happily keying in answers until it asked "who are you going to vote for"...at which point I hung up.

              I just couldn't bring myself to disclose what I feel is personal information like that. If the question had been phrased "which candidate are you leaning toward", I would have answered.

  • We can all plainly see that the approval rating line is RED and the disapproval is BLUE. This, of course, means that everybody who disapproves is one of those America-hating brie-eating book-reading French-speaking Commie-coddling with a capital C and that rhymes with P and that stands for POOL!

    It's like I said on election night - there is no America anymore. All that remains to be seen is where exactly the border between Texas and Canada is.
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  • While I'm happy to see such numbers, I wonder if those might be a bit too optimistic.

    Here are some other results that show the same opinion of Bush, just with slightly higher numbers.

    These [pollingreport.com] graphs are interesting, showing current disapproval with Bush, Congress, and "the way things are going".

    This [rasmussenreports.com] one is a good one, it breaks "approval" and "disapproval" into more categories. In this case, 38% strongly disapprove of Bush, while 21% strongly approve. This site is updated daily, supposedly.

    I think thi [umn.edu]

  • The point is, we, as a nation, are crazy. Crazy enough to elect Bush, crazy enough to give him a second term, crazy enough to pack Congress with conservatives while the house is obviously burning down. Even if we stop sneezing for a moment, we still have the flu.

    The problem is not, how do we stop Bush. The problem is, how do we fix a country where "One out of every five Americans believes he or she has seen an angel or knows someone who has..." [startribune.com]

    For practical purposes, the local races matter now, if anything
    • Most people are idiots. Think back to before TV. Not all kids liked to read. Some of them still preferred to play baseball. Even if commercial TV was banned and kids only had PBS to watch, I suspect that while the country would become x% less ignorant, it would become less-than-x% more intelligent.

      Thanks for getting me thinking. I'll be posting a JE in about 3 minutes.

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