Posted on 10/21/2005 10:38:45 AM PDT by NYC Republican
He has been infected with MSM bias.
I still for the life of me can't understand the Americans thinking that the country is going in the wrong direction during a time of economic growth and low unemployment.
The Katrina issue - which for the most part was an improper evacuation State issue - and the sudden expense of gas must be playing a role with the numbers.
On the political front I think he has lost some of his base for the short term due to not nominating someone a significant portion of the right would have liked.
Weren't the polls the same BEFORE 9/11
Remember the country is 40d/40r/20ind
Yup and this thread was just picked up at DU. Exploding heads over in freeperland!
Don't worry. Rasmussen are all DU trolls. /bot
The Katrina situation was handled well. Don't believe the MSM lies.
What i have been saying all along exit polls say kerry will be the next president, now what did this poll say?
Maybe the fact that we are in the middle of an all out shooting war with an enemy determined to deploy WMD and we don't control our borders, has something to do with it. Think about it, Iraq has better border security than the richest nation on earth. If that ain't a signal that the country is heading in the wrong direction I don't what is.
If you had watched Brit and the All Stars last night, you would know that this is normal for ALL Presidents during their second term. Fred Barnes said that just when you think a President is down and out, BAM he comes back stronger than before.
LLS
You're absolutely right...he just should have stayed out of his and Rove's hurricane making machine, then blowing up the leevees was a bit of an overkill IMHO./sarc
Are you serious? I sense something deeper in your dislike for Bush.
No, before 911 he was always well above 50%
Meaningless. American change their minds more frequently than they do their underwear.
I don't ... NO and the State of Louisiana should have been the initial responders ... not FEMA. Where I fault Bush, as I've stated several times before in other FR threads ... Bush and his handlers should have been playing heads up ball. You have a category 5 hurricane churning thru the Gulf of Mexico, taking dead aim on a blue state ... with a female 'Rat governor and a city, NO, with a black 'Rat mayor. Guess who they're going to blame when the crap hits the fan? Bush should have had his butt on AF1 winging back to Washington two days before the storm, or failing that, flown up to Colo. Springs and been at NORAD the eve of Katrina hitting the gulf coast. Had he done this the criticism from the liberal MSM would have been muted greatly ... instead, he stays on at the vacation ranch in Crawford ... then flies out to San Diego for some function the day Katrina hits.
Since Katrina hit he's been to the gulf coast 8 or 9 times ... too late, the horse is out of the paddock.
Read my succinct & analytical response in post #35.
Apparently you didn't follow Katrina as closely as you thought you did. He was on the phone to Blanko 2 days before the hurricane hit, pleading with her to evacuate the people from NO. He then had a document made up for her to sign that gave him the power to call up the NG. She said she had to think about it for 24 hours...well, 24 hours later and NO was in the middle of a hurricane.
So what? The big mistake here is the idea that the Democrats will NECESSARILY benefit from this. How? The approval numbers for congressional Democrats are even lower!
I followed it closely ... what happened with all the document signing ... it turned into a he said she said argument Bush wasn't going to win in the MSM. Action, in the form of at least appearing to be concerned ... flying back to Washington early from vacation, or going up to NORAD to monitor the situation would have negated almost entirely the charges that Bush is out of touch (heard that one before?) or, that he's slow to grasp the enormity of a Katrina like catastrophe.
According to a Google search for pre 9/11 numbers, he was at 49% unfavorable, and 43% approval.
LLS
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