Bush @ 24% approval on the war.

[Botany]

And it is just going to get worse. Come on Jay Rockefeller please release the pre war Iraq Intel
and let us get the impeachment party started.


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/315244_thomas11.html?source=rss


The latest CBS-New York Times poll said the president has dropped to 24 percent in his approval
ratings on his handling of the war. President Nixon's Watergate scandal-plagued polls fell to 23
percent when he was forced to resign from office.

[pampango]

1. Damn Sheeple.

They'll believe anything the Bush admin and the MSM shoves at them. ;)

[sheerjoy]

3. I personally think....

that the sheeple just cannot stand up and be counted as having been duped - they are just too ashamed.

[pampango]

4. You're probably right.

But at least they can express their opinions in polls such as this.

[sheerjoy]

7. THAT is true. n/t

[bdamomma]

2. and he will keep going with his PNAC agenda until we scream

out to our Reps and Senators throw the bums out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blackhatjack]

5. The effort to end the war will come first.... n/t

[pat_k]

6. It's not really about the war. It's about Bush.

The war is part and parcel of the national anger at bush. (see refs)

Americans are "against" the war, but they are ambivalent about what to do about it. That's the definition of a quagmire -- no good way out.

There is no ambivalence about the anger at bush. And there is a clear path to tapping into that anger: Impeach Bush and Cheney.

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References:

Curtis Gans, Director, http://spa.american.edu/csae">Center for the Study of the American Electorate

On Politically Direct with David Bender, 10-Nov-06 (http://podcast.rbn.com/airam/airam/download/archive/2006/11/aapd111006.mp3">mp3 -- Interview start time approx 18:30)

Bender: Joining me now is Curtis Gans. He is the Director of the Center for the Study of the American Electorate at American University and he has just released a new study analyzing the turnout this past Tuesday, and there's some interesting and there are some very, very interesting shifts in the turnout from previous elections. Welcome to Politically Direct . . .

Gans: It's very good to talk to you David.

Bender: Curtis, I'm holding the study in my hand right now, and clearly one of the things that all the exit polls showed was that Iraq played a part and your own work bears that out -- that Iraq helped propel some degree of an increase in turnout in this last election.

Gans: I think that it is not simply Iraq, although Iraq started Bush's downhill. But it is a gestalt around George Bush. it's being a pariah to other countries; it's people dying in what they increasing find is a vain fight; it's massive budgetary imbalances; it's a lack of compassionate conservatism; it's insecurity in jobs; it's the feeling that people have not been leveled with.

Bender: You've been doing this for almost 30 years; studying the American electorate. And there is probably no greater expert than you. It's just a real pleasure to have you on this program. . .

Talking heads may not understand that Bush's Iraq horror cannot be separated from the "gestalt," but the public demonstrated their understanding when they were asked about possible reasons for Democratic success. Of the twelve items polled, the two that referenced Bush topped this list, with 85% saying "Disapproval of how the Bush administration has handled the war in Iraq" was a major reason; and 71% saying "Disapproval of Bush's overall job performance" was a major reason. See http://january6th.org/reasons-for-success.pdf