Bush approval ratings

[D_Raay]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000866232

Gallup: Bush Approval Rating Lowest Ever for 2nd-Term Prez at this Point

By E&P Staff

Published: April 05, 2005 11:45 AM ET

NEW YORK It's not uncommon to hear or read pundits referring to President George W. Bush as a "popular" leader or even a "very popular" one. Even some of his critics in the press refer to him this way. Perhaps they need to check the latest polls.

President Bush's approval rating has plunged to the lowest level of any president since World War II at this point in his second term, the Gallup Organization reported today.

"All other presidents who were re-elected to a second term had approval ratings well above 50% in the March following their re-election," Gallup reported.

Bush's current rating is 45%. The next lowest was Reagan with 56% in March 1985.
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Okay, tell us again how Bush won his re-election even though all the exit polls showed Kerry in a landslide. Go on. Tell us. We LOVE that one. It's almost as funny as the one about Saddam's 'nookular' weapons.

[EN[i]GMA]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000866232

Gallup: Bush Approval Rating Lowest Ever for 2nd-Term Prez at this Point

By E&P Staff

Published: April 05, 2005 11:45 AM ET

NEW YORK It's not uncommon to hear or read pundits referring to President George W. Bush as a "popular" leader or even a "very popular" one. Even some of his critics in the press refer to him this way. Perhaps they need to check the latest polls.

President Bush's approval rating has plunged to the lowest level of any president since World War II at this point in his second term, the Gallup Organization reported today.

"All other presidents who were re-elected to a second term had approval ratings well above 50% in the March following their re-election," Gallup reported.

Bush's current rating is 45%. The next lowest was Reagan with 56% in March 1985.
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Okay, tell us again how Bush won his re-election even though all the exit polls showed Kerry in a landslide. Go on. Tell us. We LOVE that one. It's almost as funny as the one about Saddam's 'nookular' weapons.

So the man who the election was stolen from doesn't even realize it was stolen from him?

He's even dumber than I thought.

And exit polls are meaningless. Some people like to lie to pollers, some pollers like to lie. You REALLY have to prove something better than this.

[STANKY808]

GMA']So the man who the election was stolen from doesn't even realize it was stolen from him?

He's even dumber than I thought.

And exit polls are meaningless. Some people like to lie to pollers, some pollers like to lie. You REALLY have to prove something better than this.

Dumber than you thought? Remember 2000 when any questions about Florida by the Dems were dismissed as sour grapes etc. They don't want that tag again.

How about a statistical analysis by PhD's in math and stats that demonstrates the likelihood of that large a discrepancy is a million to one?


"Officially, President Bush won November's election by 2.5%, yet exit polls showed Kerry winning by 3%. According to a report to be released today by a group of university statisticians, the odds of a discrepancy this large between the national exit poll and election results happening by accident are close to 1 in a million.

In other words, by random chance alone, it could not have happened. But it did.

Two alternatives remain. Either something was wrong with the exit polling, or something was wrong with the vote count.

Exit polls have been used to verify the integrity of elections in the Ukraine, in Latin America, in Germany, and elsewhere. Yet in November 2004, the U.S. exit poll discrepancy was much more than normal exit poll error (and similar to that of the invalid Ukraine election.)

In a recent survey of US members of the world's oldest and largest computer society, The Association for Computing Machinery, 95% opposed software driven un-auditable voting machines, of the type that now count at least 30% of U.S. votes. Today's electronic vote-counting machines are not required to include basic safeguards that would prevent and detect machine or human caused errors, be they innocent or deliberate.

The consortium that conducted the presidential exit polls, Edison/Mitofsky, issued a report in January suggesting that the discrepancy between election results and exit polls occurred because Bush voters were more reticent than Kerry voters in response to pollsters.

The authors of this newly released scientific study "Analysis of the 2004 Presidential Election Poll Discrepancies" consider this "reluctant Bush responder" hypothesis to be highly implausible, based on extensive analysis of Edison/Mitofsky's exit poll data. They conclude, “The required pattern of exit poll participation by Kerry and Bush voters to satisfy the exit poll data defies empirical experience and common sense under any assumed scenario.”

A state-by-state analysis of the discrepancy between exit polls and official election results shows highly improbable skewing of the election results, overwhelmingly biased towards the President.

The report concludes, “We believe that the absence of any statistically-plausible explanation for the discrepancy between Edison/Mitofsky’s exit poll data and the official presidential vote tally is an unanswered question of vital national importance that needs thorough investigation.”

The full scientific report is available here:
http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_2004_Edison-Mitofsky.pdf

An executive summary of the report is available: http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_summary.pdf.

I know, those professors are LIBERALS and therefore everything they offer is biased. Why even bother?

[catatonic]

Who knows? The number of computer glitches was greater than the difference of votes for Bush and Kerry. Maybe the glitches were systematically going to Bush, but the beauty of the Diebold machines is that we'll probably never know.

[D_Raay]

I WASN'T attempting to prove anything. I was merely making an educated observation. Thanks for clearing it up for him STANKY808.

[STANKY808]

I WASN'T attempting to prove anything. I was merely making an educated observation. Thanks for clearing it up for him STANKY808.

It was fun! (y)

[ASsman]

I jizz on this double posting, Qdrop is an asshole.

[Qdrop]

I jizz on this double posting, Qdrop is an asshole.

yeah yeah...
my bad....

but it's soooooooooo important, it had to be posted twice...

or something.