If the election were held today, Bush would get 75 electoral votes

[BurtWorm]

Anobody But Bush really would be president.


http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/08/17/poll/index.html


For the president, 38 flavors of bad
George W. Bush is a very popular president -- in Idaho.

Survey USA has pulled together a 50-state survey on George W. Bush's approval ratings. The president gets a net positive approval rating -- that is, a poll result in which more respondents approve of his job performance than disapprove -- in just 10 states: Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, Texas, Alabama, North Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma and Mississippi. In two other states -- Louisiana and North Carolina -- respondents are divided evenly on their president.

The other 38 states? Not so good for Bush. They don't approve of him just a little bit in Indiana and Alaska, and they don't like him much at all in Rhode Island, where respondents say they disapprove of the president's job performance by a margin of 68 to 29 percent. Rounding out the bottom five: Massachusetts, Vermont, Delaware and California.

If poll results equaled Electoral College votes, Bush would have about 75 of them right now. It takes 270 to win.

-- T.G.

[driver8]

1. shit...that's about 5 more than he got the last time!

[Diane R]

2. Does Diebold still get to tabulate? n/t

[Porcupine]

4. Exactly: He gets just enough to make it look close.

So that the people who stood for hours and days in line to vote against him think that it's fair. It's not, they're cheating and the stalinist media won't say a word of truth about it.

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. They haven't cranked up...

...the 'God-gays-guns' machine in ages.

BushCo have been leaning hard on the war -- unpopular -- and privatizing Social Security -- unpopular.

If there actually were an election coming up, the war would disappear, and you couldn't find the words 'social security' in the newspapers.

You would instead get 24/7 gay-marriage-creationism-abortion-immigrants-flag-burning instead, with the active and enthusiastic cooperation of the media.

And the red states now showing signs of mental life would, like Dr. Pavlov's dogs, return to drooling at the sound of the BushCo bell.

[Peter Frank]

5. With all the deaths of soldiers from Ohio...

...I sure hope Bush regrets (in his private moments) that he hadn't allowed Rove to make free voting there impossible.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. If only this was last November!

AHH! But it is nice knowing that Bush is still and always will be the most hated and unpopular "president". I do get a smile on my face watching this SOB go down!

[DanCa]

7. If if's and but's were candy and nuts we'd all have a wonderful christmas

[Tyranny_R_US]

8. If our representatives weren't cowards and brown nosers he would be impeac

[BurtWorm]

10. If the majority weren't Repub there's a slim chance he'd be impeached

(if Dems weren't such cowards.)

[radfringe]

9. FYI - State by state numbers

http://www.surveyusa.com/50StatePOTUS0805.htm

Weighted overall averages:
Approve 41%
Disapprove 55%
('Weighted Average' means each state is weighted proportionally to its share of USA population. For example,California, the most populated state, is given 71 times the weight of WY the least populated state, in a weighted avg.)


Unweighted overall averages:
Approve: 43%
Disapprove 53%
('Unweighted Average' means each state is given equal weight; population density is not taken into account).

[Telly Savalas]

11. Good thing for the GOP Bush isn't running again.

If the Republicans go with a guy like Hagel, who can distance himself a bit from the mistakes of the Bush Administration, they're poised to win in 2008. This is precisely why we need to end the fixation with Bush, and go on the offensive against conservative ideology in general.

[mtnsnake]

12. If we hadn't run such a shitty campaign, Bush would've gotten 75 votes

in 2004

[OrlandoGator]

14. I glad someone has the balls to say it.

Sad but true. Any competent politician should have been able to hold Bush's feet to the fire on his multiple catastrophic failures during his first term. Instead, we nominated a guy who supported the Iraq War.

[NewJeffCT]

13. If Indiana is against Bush, things are really bad

Isn't it traditionally one of the reddest of red states?