You meant pole numbers, right?
Posted on 05/12/2006 11:52:13 AM PDT by Icelander
The poll, conducted by the Wall Street Journal, is the latest to indicate a slump in public support for the US leader as his Republican party heads into the campaign for mid-term elections in November.
In the poll, released in the newspaper's online edition, Bush has lost six percentage points in a month.
Iraq remains the main concern. Twenty-eight percent of Americans say it is one of the two most important topics, up from 23 percent in April, followed by IMMIGRATION (16 percent) and the price of petrol (gasoline) (14 percent).
Only 24 percent of the 1,003 people asked between May 3-8 said they believed the United States was "heading in the right direction". According to the Journal, 69 percent said "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track".
Bush is closing in on the unpopularity level of President Richard Nixon (24 percent) at the moment of his resignation in 1974 over the Watergate scandal.
We should just put up a sticky: "The President's polls suck but he isn't running for anything..."
Well, using Viagra certainly got Dole's pole up, so to speak.
1. Our country is being invaded from the south.
2. The invaders march in the street making demands.
3. Our ELECTED OFFICIALS sit back and do nothing.
4. We are spending BILLIONS overseas to fight the WOT while here at home anyone can waltz over our borders.
If at Monday's address to the nation President Bush does anything less than put the Guard on the border, his approval rating will drop another 5-10 percent and rightly so.
polls have also predicted President John Kerrie would assume control of the White House, Military recuiting was down because of the Global War on Terror ....
this Pole doesn't trust polls
Nostradamus!
LOL
"All he needs to say Monday is that he is ordering 50,000 national guard troops to the border to patrol and start the assembly of a 1,000 mile wall."
The operative word is "ordering"; not considering, not investigating, not consulting with congress, not looking into, BUT ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING.
I demand my minority rights!
I dont think so. A world war is a declared open war between several nations. WWIII has not yet happened, but seems to be the looming Islamic advance into Europe. WWIV will be the West retaking these European losses and a complete clean sweep of the militant regimes rising in the Middle east.
These polls are worthless and designed to do nothing more than try to take Republicans down with the President or separate them giving room for "impeachment".
He'll "promise" more. He'll not explain anything about the amnesty, adding 1,000,000 green cards per year, etc.
He's bargaining with the people. He'll give us border security if we deflate the wages of the middle and lower classes.
It's a policy decision on his part. Selling it is tough, so the numbers aren't stated.
He never fought back,against the lies,he just let them boil over and over,I sadly predict he will be impeached.
"Last time I checked, Iraq was the country we invaded, not the Middle East."
LOL. That is just how much people such as yourself knows about the ME. There are no countries, there are no borders, there are only Muslims you have been taught to hate Americans, Christians and Jews since they were born. Let me tell you how I feel about it, we did not invade Iraq, WE INVADED THE MIDDLE EAST and Iraq just happens to be the sand where we landed and I hope we never leave until every last terrorist/Muslim (they are pretty much one in the same) is wiped off the face of the earth. They have terrorized the world and been allowed to get away with it for too many years and too many lives. Ignoring it and pretending everything is okay is what got us to 9/11. Let me ask you this, if you were in the World Trade Center on 9/11 would you have burned to death or jumped?
Yep, he's been looking at his numbers. They all have.
Trouble is, even though they know they have to do something about the border, they are extremely stubborn, and think that they're cleverer than they really are.
What the BorderBots want: A barrier that runs sea-to-sea, with construction to begin immediately. NO amnesty or guest worker. Enforcement against employers of illegals.
What the President and Congress look to be proposing: some increase in fences at select places on the border, (temporary) deployment of National Guard to help enforce the border, eventual amnesty and guest worker to be included in the bill, and symbolic enforcement of the immigration laws against a few employers.
What the President and Congress look to be offering looks like a bait and switch, and the BorderBots are having none of it. IF the President and Congress would agree to the FENCE, a FULL BARRIER, sea-to-shining sea, and just delay discussion of amnesty or guest worker until people see that fence going up, the President and the GOP would save themselves.
But they DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.
Why?
Because a Border Barrier is a decisive, irrevocable move that would actually have the effect of starting to really close the border, actually reducing dramatically the illegal influx. And that would impose some pretty high costs on the economy and business. So they're trying frantically to offer something that LOOKS LIKE border security, for a time, while avoiding doing the OBVIOUS, and the EFFECTIVE thing that the BorderBots want.
Now, I'll make a prediction. Bush will propose his vision, and it won't include a sea-to-sea fence. SOME of the BorderBots who desperately want to come back into the GOP fold will announce themselves satisfied, and that will be the reports: President's numbers improving. And they WILL improve.
Trouble is, it won't be by ENOUGH. There will still be plenty of BorderBots screaming that they have been ignored and the GOP is trying bait and switch, and they will not come out in November...which gives you a Democratic Congress in the election.
The only way to avoid that is to agree to a fence. There are plenty of Republican leaders who know that. I wonder if they will prevail on their too-clever-by-half colleagues to actually get it done and save the party this Fall.
This is the primary mission of our military and anything else (to include Iraq) is secondary.
There is absolutely no valid reason why Congress can not authorize our U.S. military to guard our borders.
I have a suggestion:
Halt all TSA inspection of American civilians at our airports, until the U.S. borders have been slammed shut. If our borders are left wide open, then all airport security is useless.
Do not allow the government to have it both ways. Shut down all TSA inspections until our elected officials in Washington close the borders.
You meant pole numbers, right?
You seem to have summed up the administration's attitude nicely.
Y'know what? I'll bet you'll be one of those around here blaming 'the base' when your prophecy comes true. And the base will say 'right back at ya'.
Can you clarify your definition?
The Democrats will never support a Republican and visa versa. Therefore, if you abandon your base, you can expect your popularity to plummet.
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