Bush Poll Numbers UP in MS, AL, LA...WTF?

[huskerlaw]

Survey USA's September poll shows Bush falling in nearly every state (some by 40% net), but look at this:

Alabama: 51% approve, 44% disapprove...up 7%

Louisiana: 51% approve, 46% disapprove...up 5%

Mississippi: 55% approve, 43% disapprove...up 12%

I'm assuming this is because the people that hate him didn't have phone service or electricity?? :shrug:

http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2005/50StatePOTUS0905SortedbyState.htm

On edit: I'm a statistics moron. I rather misinterpreted what they meant by "net approval" numbers. However, that doesn't answer the question about wtf he still has positive approval numbers in those 3 states.

[0007]

1. Bullshit

[darkism]

2. "this is because the people that hate him didn't have phone service"

That could very well be true.

[obxhead]

4. My thought as well, plus

how many of the people really pissed at him are still even in those states.

[Teaser]

19. Much ot the anti-Bush constituency in LA

has been driven out of state. For real.

[electron_blue]

21. my first thought

another way to put the poll is "relatively unscathed survivors of Katrina rate Bush highly, victims unavailable for comment".

[FreedomAngel82]

22. They could've also just polled republicans

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. I bet the local radio jocks are sending out the message:

"See? Government doesn't work. It was Pat Robertson's outfit and WalMart that got the relief supplies there first. Bush actually helped you by trying to sabotage FEMA..."

[lancdem]

5. Actually, you misinterpreted the numbers

That net number is the approval minus disapproval; it's not a comparison from one month to the next.

[huskerlaw]

7. oooooh, thank god

I thought I was going insane.

[lancdem]

17. LOL

[crispini]

12. Yep.

Here's the Alabama approval numbers for past months:

[dusty64]

13. I found these from that site

dated 8/17/05.

Alabama Bush 52% 45%

Louisiana 48% 48%

Mississippi 49% 47%


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

[Atman]

6. How the fuck did they poll a place with no phones or electricity?

Come on! That must be why Rove is there...spreading cash and buying friends. And faking polls.

[mitchtv]

Hard core fundamentalist. fag baiting Xians

the heart of the Slave States. S C has him at 47% approval strange

[DanCa]

8. Is survey usa repug firm?

I was just wondering whose behind them not that i put much stock in them. I mean how can you loose entire cities and not have three quarters of the country yelling for impeachment is beyond me.

[Zynx]

9. LA has most of the Dems in the state out of state right now or unreachable

Think, NO is the biggest Dem concentration in the state and there is no one there to call. Those poll numbers are messed up as a consequence.

[Maddy McCall]

10. Explain Wyoming, North Dakota, Oklahoma...

:shrug:

[huskerlaw]

11. Nebraska as well

I'm not sure I can explain it, except to say that the hurricanes don't affect them. And well, we know how Republicans are with things that don't directly hurt them (hell, even things that do).

I'm guessing that since they haven't been bombarded with news of more Iraq casualties, they think the war's going better. Just a guess.

[crispini]

15. Wyoming is down overall

[bonito]

14. Saddam got 100% of the vote too

In there last elections, and the world laughed.

[journalist3072]

16. " I love my captures"

Stockholm syndrome at its finest. That's what is going on. These folks know they will be dependent on federal dollars to help rebuild their cities.

[Botany]

18. Sure and he won Ohio too.

We have lost 300,000 + jobs
We registered at least 250,000 Kerry voters
We had 90% of the nadar 2000 voters
A significant % of 2000 bush voters voted for (and in some cases worked
for) Kerry

pure b.s.

[saltpoint]

20. Since most of the people whose homes were flooded --

-- are in the goddam Astrodome, the pollsters ought to have begun their polling there, instead of the well-connected, dry-land folks who didn't have to worry that much about it, or those who had cars and could sit the storm out up north a bit then return.

Bush's tax cuts didn't go very far in the already-impoverished delta South. His FEMA and Homeland Security directors sat around in their offices with their thumbs up their butts while corpses floated down the streets of New Orleans. The daughters and sons of many of those lower-income families are in Iraq right now, being asked by an incompenent Commander in Chief and a lying Sec. of Defense to "spread democracy" in the Middle East, while more and more and more Middle Easterners violently resent the occupation of their homeland.

The poll doesn't reflect what's happening. What's happening is that Bush has failed and failed comprehensively to lead. Historians will be taking their own poll a bit later...

[Alamom]

23. I've been a registered voter for 35 years

years in Alabama. I, nor anyone I know who votes "Democratic" has ever been polled or surveyed for these rags.
That's kind of strange to me.

Who are they calling?

[Dob Bole]

24. The northern parts of those states, which may have power, are more GOP.

It's the same way in Georgia, my home state. Rural black and white farmers tend to be more Democratic than, for example, suburbans in the northern part of the states.