Hell yes, we're angry! You got a problem with that?

[jefferson_dem]

Anger among Dems is the theme of the latest ABC poll. Fucking bastards! Them and chimpy too...

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Oct. 10, 2004 — Among the sentiments fueling the 2004 election, put anger on John Kerry's side: On the subject of George W. Bush, his supporters are riled.

Nearly half of likely voters who support Kerry are "angry" about Bush administration policies. Anger peaks in some of Kerry's strongest support groups — liberals, Democrats and the non-religious. And it far outstrips the anger Bush supporters feel about Kerry.

While 50 percent of liberals are angry about Bush policies, for example, just 19 percent of conservatives are angry about the policies Kerry has proposed. While 39 percent of Democrats are angry with Bush, fewer than half as many Republicans, 17 percent, are angry with Kerry. And while 46 percent of Kerry supporters are angry about Bush policies, just 19 percent of Bush voters are angry back.

Anger, though, is not the only motivating factor in politics, and the race between the two men is still close: Fifty percent of likely voters support Bush in the latest ABC News tracking poll, 46 percent Kerry and one percent Ralph Nader. That's about where it's been the last few days.

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Anger/Enthusiasm
There are a few likely reasons for the anger sentiments found in this survey. One is that, in an incumbent election, supporters of the challenger are by definition anti-incumbent. Another is that Bush has policies for people to be angry about (or pleased with); Kerry, by contrast, has only proposed policies.
The last is that Bush has targeted his campaign more at motivating the Republican base, while Kerry has aimed his more at appealing to the center. Both are sensible strategies given the size of the groups at play: Conservatives, a core Republican group, account for just over a third of likely voters, while liberals, a core Democratic group, account for fewer, about two in 10.

The question about the disproportionate anger directed at Bush is the extent to which it fuels voter turnout — and turnout, in a close election, is the critical factor.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=153043

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[umtalal]

1. reading the freeper website it becomes obvious how clueless they are

on how angry and disguested we are with this current administration. I recall republicans were tight wads, that was my idea of a Republican. Now, they have to impose their relgious views and their dogmas upon all of us.

[Paradise]

2. I am "Anger"! nt

[wryter2000]

3. Anger?

Mention Hillary Clinton and watch their heads swivel on their shoulders. And she didn't even do anything to them.

On edit: Maybe we could answer the poll, "Well, gee, you know...I kinda wish he hadn't told a bunch of little fibs to start a war that's killed, oh gosh...almost 1100 of us and...heck, they haven't even counted those funny brown people. What cards those Bushies are!"

[gratuitous]

4. Gee thousands dead, billions squandered

Environment getting worse, jobs lost, crony capitalism screwing us left and right, and no end in sight. Can't imagine why we'd be upset or angry. Heck, have you seen the huge salaries they pay on-air "talent" at ABC? Beats working, though you have to wonder how long the knees are going to hold out.

[hippiechick]

5. We may be angry but

... we're not the leader of the Free World who flipped out on international television 72 hours ago.


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[0007]

6. I'm pissed that we spent so much time on the ear piece and back lump

than talking about junior's reason to block prescription drugs from Canada.

[NV Whino]

7. These guys are getting desperate for something to write about

Damn right I'm angry! :grr:

Stupid article.

[Insomnicole]

8. Gosh, why would I be angry?

Just because this president who was appointed by the Supreme Court has been a bigger disaster than even I could have imagined? Just because even though the Republicans control all three branches of government, I still hear that liberals like me are the ones ruining America? Just because it's apparently fine to send this country to a war under bogus pretenses and cause the deaths of people all over the world, but if I dare voice a question about it I'm instantly branded a terrorist-loving traitor?

Damn right I'm angry.

[mhr]

9. I Despise Bush And Anger Is My Name!

Bring it on Freepers!

[skygazer]

10. What a bunch of morans

Doesn't the fact that people are angry - angry enough to talk about it, angry enough to take to the streets in protest, angry enough to fill NY with marchers during the RNC - doesn't that tell you that the people of this country are sick and tired of being lied to and misled? What do they think? We're just angry because it's fun? Becuase it's a fad?

People get angry because something makes them angry. We don't hate George Bush for his freedoms - we hate him for stripping us of ours. We hate him for leading our country into a morass in Iraq. We hate him from taking control of a respected and moral country and dragging it down to a place where it is distrusted and reviled by much of the world.

Of course we're angry! And we will be heard! :grr:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Yet it never seems to be a problem for RWers to be angry, shouting,

scowling all the time.

[saccheradi]

12. What pisses me off the most...

Is that the ***hole sends Americans to die in Iraq. The price of oil skyrockets as a direct result and he makes money from it.

He says it's hard work... yep. hard work using the horrors of 911 as a mandate to divert money from those who need it most to yourself and your own BS causes...