36% FOX POLL: Dems Favored On Most Issues-Zarqawi Bounce Over

[kpete]

07/13/06 FOX News Poll: Democrats Favored On Most Issues; Bush Approval Down
Thursday, July 13, 2006
By Dana Blanton

NEW YORK — Less than four months before Election Day, the latest FOX News Poll finds that voters strongly favor the Democrats on key issues such as the economy and gas prices, and give the minority party a double-digit lead for control of Congress this fall. For most of President Bush’s second term in office, more Americans have said they disapprove than approve of his job performance and that is again the case in this new poll.

The president’s approval rating dropped to 36 percent, down from 41 percent approval two weeks ago and 40 percent in mid-June. Bush lost ground this week among some key constituent groups, such as Republicans, whites and men. Overall, 53 percent of Americans say they disapprove.

"It is important to remember that the president got his bounce after the killing of al-Zarqawi in Iraq," comments Opinion Dynamics Chairman John Gorman. "While administration officials were careful not to overplay the significance of this, it naturally created hope that things would get better. Several weeks of bloody footage from Iraq have pretty much dashed those hopes."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203346,00.html

[otohara]

1. You Made My Day - It Must Kill Fox

to write a "downer" story when it comes to their man!

[KansDem]

2. FoxNews anchors must be/will be crying to have to report this!

Poor FoxNews anchors...

Bush at 76%: :loveya:

Bush at 66%: :D

Bush at 56%: :)

Bush at 46%: :(

Bush at 36% :cry:

[warrens]

3. Easy solution to Bush problem

No more bloody footage from Iraq. They'll use this Middle East stuff as an excuse, so as not to "inflame" the situation.

[WI_DEM]

4. Good news--this counters Gallup which had him at 40% yesterday

[Czolgosz]

5. Lately, Fox's poll numbers have been about 5% higher than every other poll

[David Zephyr]

28. Just lately?

n/t

[Czolgosz]

44. Here's a pollkatz graph:

Sometimes the Fox polls are more-or-less within range of the other polls. Lately that have been noticeably understating the emperor's status as a widely despised charlatan.

[kwolf68]

6. 36%

Still very high.

My wife, who was basically a Conservative when we first married, can now be classified as a Liberal and its in large part because of this idiot.

[Thoreau-Ly]

13. Yeah, You're Wife's Story is Common

I honestly think 36% is inaccurate, though those with poll knowledge may not think so, meaning it is kind of overstated. Though, really, if you think about it, 36% is pretty damn LOW.

[bluerum]

7. 36% - over one in three people approve! How is that possible?

[janetle]

11. People who still have phones in their house, I guess.

[janetle]

16. Or I should say who answer their landlines for surveys and such

[nxylas]

18. Yeah, they have to say they like Bush

Cos they know he's listening and can have them shipped to Gitmo.

[MissWaverly]

21. It's not possible; it's spin like everything else

I heard that the WH is showing GWB at 29%, which is why they're hoping for the BIG ONE in the
Middle East, the war they always wanted, so they can have anothr 9-11 moment, so George can
be a hero, so George can dress up in a flight suit and stand on an aircraft carrier, so George
can be liked again.

[Thoreau-Ly]

25. Now, That Number's Interesting

Though, yes, hoping for the Middle Eastern war...strange. Israel on Bush's Bandwagon? Bush on Israel's Bandwagon?

I might like him a little better if he was good at pretending to be like Curious George. But no, everyone knows he is an incurious man. (Bush Is Incurious and Dogmatic, but He Is Still the Right Leader, Frum, 9/05).

They actually believe that kind of crap is GOOD.

[MissWaverly]

31. the Neo-Cons are pro-Israel

add a sprinkle of AIPAC, Jack Abramoff and toss gently

[Thoreau-Ly]

35. I'm Afraid

The Neo-Conderthals are also Pro-Armageddon.

Hey, at least Ralphie Reed might be sinking like a cabin boy on the Titantic, thanks to "Why Does the President Deny He's Met Me" Abramoff.

[Sherman A1]

23. Well Fox probably

"interprets" the information just a bit differently than the normal human being. Even with that, this has to really be causing concern.

[Blasphemer]

29. That's the GOP base isn't it?

Yeah he might get down to around 30% if he pisses 'em off (i.e. the immigration stuff) but they always come back.

[budkin]

8. Too bad we'll still probably end up losing.

I know I'm being pessimistic but I was never more certain of an election victory than in 2004 and we all know how that turned out. I can see the headlines already...

GOP STUNS DEMS IN ELECTION DAY TURNAROUND
REPUBLICAN UNDERDOGS PULL OUT THE UPSET
"MIRACULOUS" RALLY KEEPS GOP IN POWER

They control the vote counting, so they win, period. I hope I'm wrong, God I hope I'm wrong...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

43. As Jon Stewart asked Howard Dean a few weeks ago . . .

"...so, how are the Democrats going to blow it this November?"

[RangerSmith]

9. As an aside probably few will see the humor in

as a newbie, it is kind of amusing to watch people here cheer for the polls they like the results of and scoff at the validity of all the ones they don't like....

Anyway, carry on! It is indeed good news!

[Ringo84]

10. EXCELLENT

I hope the Republicans lose BIG in November. Just seeing Hannity's face the day after the Democrats retake the House and/or the Senate would be partial repayment for the past six years.

These RWers think they're sush Great Americans. So moral. But people are starting to see through the bullshit. I think we have a very good chance to clean house come this November.
Ringo

[BrentWill4U]

12. Yeah, but you know..

Something will happen right before the election to help them out. Perhaps another Bin Ladin tape?

[Thoreau-Ly]

14. Oh, Jesus, are You Kidding?

Guaraaanteeeeed.

But, I don't know, people ain't buying this shit any more...or at least a lot of them...

[shaniqua6392]

17. How about a big ceremony in Baghdad in September

handing over "control" to the Iraqis. It will all be a bunch of bull crap, but they will try it anyway. They will say that many of the troops will be coming home. Then right after the November elections they will say, "Tensions have risen so dramatically that we will have to send more troops into Iraq". Just my opinion. They will have to do something to make everything look rosy right before our elections. People will fall for it. They always do.

[Thoreau-Ly]

19. Or Maybe

Killing Al Al-Qaeda's Number Two...again.

And...again.

And...again.

"Zarqawi Bounce." What a bunch of horsesh*t. It was an OFFICIALLY ACKNOWLEDGED PENTAGON PSY-OPS PROGRAM.

[karlrschneider]

33. There are apparently now FOUR orders of infinity:

Aleph-1, the number of all numbers
Aleph-2, the number of points on a line or plane
Aleph-3, the number of all geometric curves, and
Aleph-4, the number of "Al Qaida number TWOs"

:eyes:
;-)

[RagAss]

39. They'll have to hold that ceremony in an undeground safehouse

[The_Casual_Observer]

36. Don't forget that many of the bush voters in 2004 still believed

that he would "finish the job" in Iraq and voted for him to guarantee that the job would get finished. It's fairly well clearnow that the job isn't going to get finished and that he and his republican buddies never intend to finish it. I wouldn't want to be running on a "stay the course" platform come November.

[timontheleft]

38. Wouldn't a new Osama

Bin Forgotten tape just remind people that we STILL haven't got this guy? Hopefully people's patience has run out.

[BrentWill4U]

42. You would think..

But the majority of the American people would be scarred, like they always are, and then "rally" behind the COC.

[Deep13]

15. Spin that, Hannity.

[LSK]

20. 5% think terrorism is most important

And its the GOPs best issue.

I hope there is no October suprise.

[senseandsensibility]

41. Five percent?

That seems low.

[deaniac21]

22. November L A N D S L I D E !!!!!!

[FighttheFuture]

40. Yes the exit polls will show that... the "offical" polls will not....

Can you say "another stolen election"?

[tandem5]

24. repugs 51% dems 49%... guess the the exit polls were wrong again nt

[Thoreau-Ly]

26. And the Army of 10,000 Lawyers

Gets tucked into bed by the hookers hired by Skull and Bones.

[timontheleft]

37. Sorry to be off topic . . .

but that pic is GREAT!

:rofl:

[tandem5]

45. Thanks, she's my espe-see-al lay-dee! nt

[The Count]

27. There was a Zarkawi bounce? Didn't headlines say there wasn't one?

Oh, I forget, retroactively, history changes.

[Thoreau-Ly]

30. Of Course

I think research might show 1-5%, but I think it is all hokum. Even this isn't clear about whether it even exists and why. Pretty good source, most of the time.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002652098

[The Count]

32. Ha!Ha!Ha! Thanks for confirming it. Just making s* up. !984 is here.

[Thoreau-Ly]

34. I Had Thought

That The Count was the guy who Loved Peanut Butter Sandwiches, but I'm embarrased to say I forgot about Mumford. Makes more sense, though, because peanut butter would stick to The Count's fangs.

Viva la revolucion.

Or something like that.