Zogby: Bush approval 43% ..disapproval 57%... approval up 3 points

[npincus]

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

Results are for period: 9/29 - 10/2/05. Wondering why the spike up?

[tk2kewl]

1. short attention spans... hurricanes are old news

[efhmc]

5. Let us see the dead and maimed in Iraqi as we did in LA and the

ratings will plummet again.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. try torture memos and see what happens

can a poll bounce downward?

[thinkingwoman]

2. within the margin of error

I would presume.

VERY few political polls have a margin of error less than 3%.

There was no spike.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Not my fault

I regularly do Zogby polls, and I didn't raise my opinion of him. In fact, I wish they had an option worse than "very poor".

[RobertSeattle]

4. Brownian Motion

[Dogmudgeon]

9. And Bush is proud of THAT, too

--p!

[jackbourassa]

10. 43% approve and 57% disapprove is still pretty bad

Don't worry.

[jackbourassa]

11. 43% approve and 57% disapprove is still pretty bad

Don't worry.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Three percent?

Statistical sampling noise.

Bush is becoming an All-American Nightmare for both major parties -- and everyone else in the world, besides.

If I was a Republican, I think I'd be learning the words and guitar chords to Kumbayah.

--p!
Someone's workin' hard, my Lord,
Kumbayah,
Someone's workin' hard, my Lord,
Kumbayah,
Someone's destroyin' America, my Lord,
Kumbayah,
Oh, Lord,
FER CRYIN' OUT LOUD,
GET BUSH THE F**K OUT OF HERE!

[npincus]

8. tee hee

you've got yourself a hit there!

[expatriot]

7. Look at the "unsure" %'s in first poll. Bush has sure politicized

this nation. 14% unsure in 2/2001 to 0% unsure today. wow.


on edit: the word "politicized" has at least two meanings here I guess and I mean both of them.

[indepat]

12. So 43% like the war, economy, deficits, direction of the country, FEMA:

astounding!

[Call me Deacon Blues]

14. Just wait until Fitzgerald's indictments come out

Bushie'll be scooting past the political Mendoza line -- down into Bob Taft territory.

[seang70]

15. This poll was taken before the latest

Delay mess and the Supreme Court disaster.........he will be in the 30% bracket next week.....cheers www.seangettings.com

[npincus]

17. welcome to DU

and good luck w/the RE biz!

[Nederland]

16. Rita spending

Throw a dog 200 billion in bones and they settle back to licking their balls.

[tex-wyo-dem]

18. One thing to keep in mind when considering any poll...

a significant percentage of the American public pay very little if any attention to politics at all. They don't watch news on teevee, they don't read newspapers, they don't discuss politics with people around them, and they most certainly don't read political webs sites. Most, if not all, of the crimes that we on DU are so acutely aware of are barely on the radar to many. In general, people who do not keep up with politics will often give the pResident the benefit of the doubt when they don't know any better.

Those who use teevee as their primary source of political info are now subject to RW spin control and such immensely important issues as lost pretty blond girls in Aruba.

This is why the Rovian tactic of a simple, concise, repeated message can resonate for a long, long time. For ex: "We are fighting the war on terrorism in Iraq", "Saddam was connected to 9/11", and so on.

A scary thought, but many are completely unaware of their political surroundings.

I'm holding out hope that the Plame indictments will be such a bombshell that this barrier in the public consciousness will be breached for good.