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February 07, 2005

Freedom Pays a Political Dividend: Bush's Approval Rating Spikes

The SOTU had something to do with it, but more important were the successful elections in Iraq:

The Iraqi elections that went "better than expected" produced a bump in President Bush's approval rating, according to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.
Between January 14 and 16, 51 percent of survey participants expressed approval of Bush's performance as president. But 57 percent of the 1,010 respondents during the February 4 thru 6 poll stated that they approved of how the he does his job.

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While the responses to some questions -- like how the president is handling the economy and Social Security --- remained within the margin of error or unchanged from a January 7 poll to the one last week -- the most significant changes appeared on issues related to Iraq.

In the January 7 survey, 42 percent of respondents said they approved of how Bush is handling the situation in Iraq, and 56 percent expressed dissatisfaction. But, last week Bush gained 8 percentage points in his approval rating, with 50 percent giving him a nod and 48 percent disapproving.

On the question of whether sending U.S. troops to Iraq was a mistake, 52 percent said "yes" and 47 percent said "no" during the week of January 14. But last week, the numbers flipped with 45 percent saying "yes" and 55 percent saying "no."

Obviously, a lot of hard work remains to be done. But it is comforting the public is paying enough attention to know who was right and who was wrong at least on the one discrete issue of elections in Iraq.

posted by Ace at 06:23 PM

Comments

Discrete, Ace, discrete. The one thing the issue was not is 'discreet', despite the likely wish of much of the MSM that it was.

Sorry. BUT. Sometimes one word can change the whole meaning.

Posted by: Kathy K on February 7, 2005 07:49 PM

No no no. Ace wasnt trying to spell 'discrete'- he was trying to spell 'Dis Creet'- which is Latin for: "Stop correcting me Kathy"

Posted by: cunning linguist amish on February 7, 2005 07:57 PM

Dammit Amish! I was saving "cunning linguist" for my next flame war with Julie.....

Posted by: senator philabuster on February 7, 2005 08:03 PM

well i'll let you keep bi-Linguist...how about that?

Posted by: Try Amish on February 7, 2005 08:05 PM

The real reason is clearly the successful job of keeping sub par mammaries off TV.

Posted by: Al on February 7, 2005 08:10 PM

Amen brother; nothing but the best tits will do in Gearge Ws America. Have you seen the tits they show during the half time shows in Cuba? Like fried eggs hanging on a nail. My God im proud to be an American.

Posted by: vast amish wastland on February 7, 2005 08:15 PM

I wonder what the MSM approval rating is now that many Americans can see for themselves how dishonest some (most) of the reporting from Iraq has been.

I'll bet they're inversely proportional. Bush up. MSM down.

Posted by: Birkel on February 7, 2005 09:27 PM

"You may be a cunning linguist, but I'm a master debater."

Posted by: Richard on February 7, 2005 09:32 PM

There ya go! I knew somebody would finally finish the rest of that joke!
And from a guy named Dick no less.

Posted by: double en amish on February 7, 2005 09:48 PM

His ratings are still lower than Clinton's were for the duration of Monicagate. Anybody want to take a shot at explaining that?

Posted by: Steve M. on February 8, 2005 11:38 AM

Some GREAT threads over at DU on this:

My favorite comments:

"So Chimpy McSmirk has tricked the stupid Americans into supporting "freedom" when he's REALLY taking it away!"

"His rating only went up because so many people moved to Canada after the election."

Posted by: TallDave on February 8, 2005 01:39 PM

One word Steve: media.

Nixon told one lie, not under oath, about a trivial matter, and was crucified by the media. Clinton told innumerable lies, under oath, and suborned the perjury of others, also about a trivial matter, and was feted by the press.

Posted by: TallDave on February 8, 2005 01:42 PM

Nothing succeeds like victory.

Posted by: TallDave on February 8, 2005 01:54 PM