Gallup gives Bush 58% approval rating for handling Katrina, Fox disagrees

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Gallup_bucks_trend_has_Bush_approval_rising_despite_every_other_agency_includi_0916.html

Gallup bucks trend, has Bush approval rising in disagreement with every other agency including Fox

Despite a generally negative evaluation of President George W. Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina, and increasing worries about the war in Iraq, Gallup finds that Bush's approval ratings are climbing, in contrast with every other major research polling service and news agency, RAW STORY has learned.

Gallup found Bush's approval rating was lowest -- at 40 percent -- between Aug. 22 and Aug. 25. Since then, it has climbed five points, while every other poll has declined. The poll has also found that Bush's handling of the hurricane polling has improved since the initial disaster, from 44 percent to 58 percent.

Gallup claims Bush's approval has climbed since Hurricane Katrina. Not Fox. The conservative Fox News poll, released Thursday, found that 41 percent of voters approve and 51 percent disapprove of Bush’s performance, which is the lowest job rating he has received in a Fox poll.

[Botany]

1. and who did they sample?

people as they were leaving Liberty Baptist Church?

what a joke.

[glitch]

18. A Bush cousins owns Gallup now, right? So they probably just sampled

members of the BFEE.

[Poiuyt]

25. Is that true? Is Gallup really owned by the Bush family?

[RagingInMiami]

2. Maybe they should poll people who were not ...

pre-selected by Rove.

[blm]

3. Gallup is so worried that their savior might be LEFT BEHIND.

Gallup is a religious nut counting on Bush to clear the way for Armageddon.

Long past time the media shine a light on their BOGUS polling.

[Carolab]

6. Yeah, but it's reported on Raw Story. How about MSNBC?

Anyone want to see if Olbermann will take a stab at this?

[sdfernando]

4. They probably switched the numbers between approved & disapproved. n/t

[liberal N proud]

7. Do you mean kind of like when they switch the final vote count in Ohio?

[sam sarrha]

8. Probably didnt ask anyone in New Orleans.....

Impeach the Butcher of New Orleans

[sam sarrha]

5. More evidence of the Power of Lies, and a Fascist Media...

[nickinSTL]

9. the online poll for the NBC affiliate in St. Louis

After President Bush's speech last night, do you believe he has been a good leader during the Katrina crisis?

Yes
1482 Votes

No
204 Votes

I don't know
29 Votes

http://www.ksdk.com/
down the page on the right

[zann725]

12. I took all on-line MSM polls last night. Shrub totally 'tanked' in all.

Maybe it's just a glitch in my computer...

[Wordie]

14. Those online polls are meaningless and don't represent the views of the

public at all. They are completely unscientific. I wish the media would stop doing them, as they can give people a false sense of the mood of the public. Some people are probably influenced by them.

[myrna minx]

15. Ugh...

Yes 1509 Votes
No 258 Votes
I don't know 33 Votes

Total Votes Cast: 1800

[w13rd0]

17. Haha....no, that's not heavily freeped...

...whatever. Talk about your outliers...

[AtomicKitten]

10. Yeh, well

I still think he's a dick.

[Tiggeroshii]

11. Don't worry guys. That''ll be the highest it gets in ANY poll.

I'm sure it'll go back down... especially if Fitzgerald hurries up with his work *cough(indictments)*cough

[Atman]

13. Gallup is a GOP polling org. Murdoch is just a whore.

He actuall has no master, he just rides the trends, cares about no ideology other than his bottom line. He's no fool. 65% of his potential audience now does not approve of Bush, so he's going to start shifting programming to appeal to them. It's only business. Why build your business around an obviously failing, falling marketshare?

Gallup doesn't care, in an entirely different way. They don't rely on ratings or the public for cash. They have the GOP for that.

[Lexingtonian]

16. oh, ignore them

Dubya's polling ceiling is 49% for 'leadership' and 'handling terrorism' and such, i.e. crap like parading about in disaster areas. Throw in 3-4% for favorable margin-of-error fudging or sampling error.

Maybe Gallup simply did another weekend polling (which ups Republican ratings about 10%) or workday work hour polling to squeeze GOP numbers that much higher- they've been doing the first of those quite a bit lately. Which is kinda corrupt. But you know who's paying them.

I wouldn't worry. All the polling spikes the Bush team has engineered lately either fail to materialize at all or are remarkably quick to collapse.

[second edition]

19. Gallop loses all credibility by presenting Poll data like this that

is definitely inaccurate. You don't need to conduct a poll to tell you which way the wind is actually blowing-its obvious.

[Imagevision]

20. Gallop and Fox are playing off ech other - FOX will goto 51 shortly

after all they are fair and balanced so they've arranged Gallop to take the lead...! this is so yesterday,

[Responsibility]

21. Gallup poll

The poll should be considered a statistical "outlier."

Gallup did this all through the presidential campaign. They always showed Bush significantly higher than any other poll and when their methodology was examined it was exposed that they consistently use a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats in their polling samples. The percentages they use do not reflect the greater population - which is what a statistical should do.

The folks who own Gallup are big Bush supporters.

[newyawker99]

22. Hi Responsibility!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

24. Welcome to DU! and we welcome "Responsibility"!!!!

:hi:

[truthisfreedom]

23. what this means is: FAUX is looking at the long-run money, and Gallup is

being paid off by bushco. FAUX has a lot more at stake than Gallup... they have a network to pay for. Gallup can sit back with their payoffs and golf.