Let's wait an see how future ones do before making an absolute statement based on 1 source. Yes, the approval rating is increasing, as it should with a new congress, but I don't think that an RCP average of 31pts (especially given the Ipsos/McClatchy's skewing in favor of congress well above any others) is that incredible.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
The CBS News didn't skew well below the others? Not to mention the oldest poll is generally the one you should look at most critically. There was a Fox news poll from weeks past that had the Congressional approval rating at closer to 50 points.
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akuma587 said:
I'm quoting a survey done by an independent third party. This survey was taken right in the middle of the whole stimulus debacle. The House passed its version in late January. This survey was taken Feb. 9-12. You are watching too much Fox News halogamer. Many branches of the media have grossly overestimated how much the American people dislike the stimulus bill. This survey is strong evidence of that. Come on dude, turn off the Limbaugh and Hannity.
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Never!! Hannity, Rush, and Fox pwn the Commi News Network.
Weird considering the majority of people seemed to be against the stimulus bill.
Well I guess when your at like... 19% anything will get you more popular.
| akuma587 said: Somehow I don't think you hope you are wrong. |
You think I want the stimulus to fail to help the economy? You're completely wrong. It's different to think something is a bad idea than to want it to fail. I think it was a horrible idea, but I sure hope it works. I don't wish misery on anyone, least of all myself.
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elprincipe said:
You think I want the stimulus to fail to help the economy? You're completely wrong. It's different to think something is a bad idea than to want it to fail. I think it was a horrible idea, but I sure hope it works. I don't wish misery on anyone, least of all myself.
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Fair enough. I respect that. I take the same attitude when the party I am not affiliated with is in power. If they impale themselves with foolish decisions that is one thing, but when there actually is a problem they are trying to address in good faith I don't fault them for it.
For instance, I didn't have that much of a problem that Bush was running a wiretapping program domestically based on the circumstances. However, I had a huge problem with the fact that he was doing it behind the other two branches of government's backs without any kind of judicial oversight, which creates a situation ripe for abuse. The Constitution focused heavily on separating powers for this very reason.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
akuma587 said:
Fair enough. I respect that. I take the same attitude when the party I am not affiliated with is in power. If they impale themselves with foolish decisions that is one thing, but when there actually is a problem they are trying to address in good faith I don't fault them for it. For instance, I didn't have that much of a problem that Bush was running a wiretapping program domestically based on the circumstances. However, I had a huge problem with the fact that he was doing it behind the other two branches of government's backs without any kind of judicial oversight, which creates a situation ripe for abuse. The Constitution focused heavily on separating powers for this very reason.
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You're more charitable to Bush on warrantless wiretapping than I am.
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