Posted on 07/25/2007 11:20:16 AM PDT by metalmanx2j
The history of modern polling has changed. With the invent of modern technology, the only people pollers can contact are the stay-home-by-the-land-line-telephone respondents (democrats - social dependents) or Internet pollers (spammers).
Polling has become a dinosaur. Either they invent an accurate, even polling system, or polls are just going to be looked at as left wing nonsense.
Like the print media, polling is "withering on the vine."
You are right about Lincoln's unpopularity in 1864. Some say George B. McClellan would have defeated Lincoln and won the Presidential Election of 1864 but for voter fraud within the Union Army.
So you don't believe Congress is polling in the teens or is that the one poll you believe to be accurate?
Bush and Rumsfeld / Lincoln and Stanton. Yes, I see the resemblance.
They are acting like the people who hated Truman and Nixon are different people from those who hate Bush.
Many of the people who hated Truman and most of the people who hated Nixon are still alive to hate Bush!
The headline should be: "They hated Nixon, now they hate Bush."
Why don’t you have the previous two tax cuts on that chart? The one you do have labelled should be called the Bill Thomas tax cut.
Carter is still the worst president ever. And Truman is considered to be a pretty good president these days.
Other than that they were vilified by the media, I don't. I can maybe see a slight similarity in that both Stanton and Rummy were considered hard asses. But at least Rummy didn't barricade himself in his office to keep from having to leave...LOL The real funny part to that story is Stanton being the start of impeachment proceedings for Johnson because of that.
I can't tell the future, but I doubt that Bush will be held in the regard that Lincoln is a hundred or so years from now.
Bush's numbers can improve if he truly walks away from the amnesty crap. His own base will give him thumbs up if, in his last 18 months, he focuses on killing terrorists, cutting taxes, and protecting innocent life.
A conservative named to the SCOTUS would be nice, too.
In two words, the Washington comPOST can SHOVE IT.
He does comment. But Bush talks to the press. He needs to talk PAST the press, and sell the ideas and reasons why he’s doing what he’s doing directly to the people.
Instead of the ‘beltway language’, he needs to speak directly to the people, in the language they understand.
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