Now 52% June 55% May 56% April 62% March 63% February 57%
Don'tcha just LUV scientific polls? I guess Bush's European Vacation didn't impress anyone who isn't already impressed. His support is almost as bad as the number of votes he received in the election.
posted on July 3, 2001 01:34:09 PM
How about that remark made by Japan's Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka, about Bush? In nice clear plain English, she said, "He is totally an #*!@."
posted on July 3, 2001 07:57:44 PMBorillarDon'tcha just LUV scientific polls?
Polls can be interesting. Don'tcha just LUV history?
February 1993: 56 percent approve of Clinton's performance after his inauguration.
May 1993: Rating drops to 39 percent after his problems choosing an attorney general candidate, his decision on dropping ban on gays in the military and other early missteps. Majority says he's unable to get things done.
posted on July 3, 2001 08:17:54 PM
uaru - sure, but Clinton has a brain, and used it to pull this country back together. Didn't the Republicans have something to do with the roadblocks Clinton had to overcome?
Bush, if he ever did have brain, lost it a long time ago...never to be found again! Even all the collective brains in this presidential co-op aren't worth the scarecrows brain in the Wizard of Oz.
Hi'a Shosh hope you have a swimming pool to keep cool. Just too darn hot for me.
posted on July 3, 2001 08:33:24 PM
I'm not exactly a Bush fan (didn't vote for him in November and wouldn't vote for him today) but this attitude is kind of strange. Whe it comes to Bush, his poll numbers are meaningful. When it came to Clinton, "who cares what the 'little people' think... he was smart etc."
posted on July 3, 2001 09:04:05 PM
As empirical date polls are meaningless, James, because of the small uncontrolled sampling. As history they are only meaningful as landmarks, but as realtime information they can have meaning because the subject of them may react to correct their result in following actions. Like coaching actions they have no meaning when the game is over.
posted on July 3, 2001 09:10:00 PM
I agree about polling. I just don't see how Clinton and Bush tie in together or why the rules change for some as they go along.
posted on July 3, 2001 09:23:31 PM
In truth, uaru, I could care less about polls but post them because I know that they will not fail to get you riled up one way or another. They work OK for jlpiece too.
posted on July 3, 2001 09:31:48 PM
krs, I can honestly say the posts don't get me riled up, I've got a wife, daughter, and mother-in-law to rile me up. All others must take a number. I do appreciate you admitting that is the purpose of the posts.
posted on July 3, 2001 09:36:41 PM
It wasn't exactly an admission. I had thought that everyone understood that to be the case, but I'm continually amazed at how many simple things must be explained to republicans.
I'm sorry if I don't say "Hi!" to you or others as I should. As a professional political goad I tend to attract a lot of lightning and scorn. I hate for anyone who agrees with me and my positions to come too close to the blast area to escape its effects. Know that I am reading your Hellos and whatnot and I do appreciate them, even if I do not respond to them as I should. Heaven Forbid that I should ever be respected on here!
It's been noticed by the managers of George that he has been tense when confronted with issues on TV. Now, George needs to relax????
"The harder it gets, the more squarely he is confronted with his own limitations. And the more squarely W. is confronted with his own limitations, the more rattled and unrelaxed he gets. And the more rattled and unrelaxed he gets, the more rattled and unrelaxed he gets."
"On Monday his imagists sent him out, sans coat and tie, shirtsleeves rolled above the elbow, for a gambol with Laura to the Jefferson Memorial. The man who is sliding in the polls on the issue of whether he cares about average Americans and minorities was trying to seem in touch with the hoi polloi, shaking hands and chatting up tourists, singing out "Happy Fourth of July!"
Asked what the day meant to him, he replied: "It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I — it's — I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values."
