ROFL. It's disappointing how big that voting block is. edit: the double entendre of the titled missed me until that mention, thanks. Does that mean shaving is on the downside? I thought it was on the upside.
Latest polling indicates most Americans are nincompoops. They believe that Saddam had something to do with 9/11 even after Bush disavowed that claim. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=514681 majority of Americans still believes Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with al-Qa'ida and that Iraq either had weapons of mass destruction or a programme for developing them, according to a new opinion poll. The poll, conducted by the University of Maryland, showedmost respondents were unaware of the testimony of David Kay, the administration's chief weapons inspector, that he had found no weapons, or that of Richard Clarke, the former counter-terrorism tsar whose book Against All Enemies has been the talk of Washington. A staggering 82 per cent of respondents believed most experts supported the notion that Iraq was providing "substantial support" to al-Qa'ida - a contention that President Bush has been forced to disavow. Almost 60 per cent were unaware that world opinion was against the war in Iraq, with 21 per cent saying the world was behind the US-led invasion and 38 per cent saying views were "evenly divided". The poll also showed a correlation between people's ignorance and their political affiliation. Among those who believed WMD had been found in Iraq, 72 per cent said they would vote to re-elect Mr Bush in November and 23 per cent said they supported his Democratic challenger, John Kerry. Among those who knew that no WMD had been found,74 per cent supported Mr Kerry and 23 per cent backed the President. OK, I just read this, and Bush doesn't attend church either. Just like that other paragon of the religious right, Reagan, he's apparently non denominational when it comes to services, he just says no.
Ignorance is bliss. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41964-2004Apr25.html For a Conservative, Life Is Sweet in Sugar Land, Tex. By David Finkel Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 26, 2004; Page A01 . . . Second of three articles Some people get their information from the TV networks or the paper. Stein starts with the Drudge Report Web site, where he scans the headlines and clicks on one that says, "Rallying Cry For Dems: Vote Bush Out of Rove's Office." "This is the kind of stuff that pisses me off," he says. "They don't give Bush the respect he deserves. Not only because he's president, but because he's a helluva good man." Next he goes to a Web site called WorldNetDaily.com. He clicks on an article that says, "Poll: Bush's Approval Sinking," but dismisses it as untrustworthy when he sees the poll was done by CBS. "Of course I have a suspicion of CBS," he says. "Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw -- they don't have any credibility with me." . . .
This would seem to imply that all Americans are Texans.... Do you know if the "state" of North Carolina will return my state income taxes since I'm actually a Texan in reality?
If Texas were independent, as she could have been if things had played out differently, you would be working in a foreign country. I don't think you'd have to pay income taxes then, would you? (the state should have listened to Sam Houston, who was Governor, at the opening of the Civil War... he didn't want succession for Texas, but if we did secede, that Texas declare independence and try to stay out of the conflict. I wish we had, Sam.)
Well if Santa Anna had won then we would still be part of Mexico and be getting all those great manufacturing jobs that people complain are getting outsourced. Of course then Bush would be the president of Mexico instead of the US so maybe that would be a good thing.
What on earth does Mexico have to do with it during the time of succession? We would have prevented the horror of countless Texans who were killed and maimed during the Civil War, not to mention the nightmare of Reconstruction. And, eventually, Texas would have become extremely wealthy. Sounds good to me.
In other news, here's the PA GOP primary that goes down tomorrow... Specter 48% Toomey 48% A Republican who is as moderate as possible and has W's endorsement versus a fire-breathing wing nut who has Dobson's endorsement. Over 40% of Toomey voters say they will not vote for Specter in the general as Toomey has run ads where Specter morphs into Kerry. The soul of the GOP is on the line tomorrow.
89% reporting... Specter 50% Toomey 50% Specter has a slight edge (8,000) but it sounds like the last precincts to come in are Toomey strongholds... he's made up some ground and seems to be surging. Guess we'll find out in the morning.
Post-Gazette has 96% precints reporting and Spector putting some distance between him and Toomey - 51% to 49% (about 16,000 votes difference at present).
Bush's Approval Rating at All-Time Low -Poll Wed Apr 28, 2004 08:39 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Bush's approval rating is at an all-time low and fewer than half of Americans now believe invading Iraq was the right thing to do, according to a CBS/New York Times poll released on Wednesday. The poll found that if the presidential election due in November was held today, 46 percent of Americans would vote for Democrat John Kerry and 44 percent would vote for Bush -- if independent Ralph Nader stayed out of the race. The poll, with a sampling error of 3 percentage points, was conducted among 1,042 adults nationwide from Friday to Tuesday during a spate of fierce fighting in Iraq. More than 115 U.S. soldiers have been killed in combat this month. "Just 32 percent, the lowest number ever, say Iraq was a threat that required immediate military action a year ago," the poll reported. "Less than half, 47 percent, now say the United States did the right thing taking military action in Iraq, the lowest support recorded in CBS News/New York Times polls since the war began." The poll said the Iraq war appeared to have hurt assessments of Bush -- his overall approval rating (46 percent), his rating on handling Iraq (41 percent) and his rating on handling foreign policy (40 percent) "are at the lowest points ever in this administration." "His approval rating has dropped five points from early March, before the start of intense new fighting in Iraq. Immediately after the fall of Baghdad a year ago, 67 percent of Americans approved of the job Bush was doing as president," the poll said. In March last year, at the time of the invasion, nearly seven in 10 Americans thought it was the right thing to do. The poll said 56 percent of Americans thought Bush was "mostly telling the truth but still hiding something" when he spoke to them about Iraq. It said 61 percent of respondents now believed the administration did not try hard enough to reach a diplomatic solution before going to war in Iraq -- a reversal of the public's belief last year during the war. The poll said six in 10 Americans approved of Bush's handling of the threat of terrorism and 39 percent approved of his handling of the economy. It said the economy and jobs were at the top of the list of issues voters wanted to hear the candidates discuss ahead of the Nov. 2 election. "But the war in Iraq, although still in second place, is now mentioned by one-in-five voters, a 10-point jump from 11 percent six weeks ago, and the highest it has ever been since the CBS News/ New York Times Poll began asking this question last December." The poll said three-quarters of respondents had already decided who to vote for in November. "If ... Nader is included on the ballot in November and the election were held today, 41 percent of voters would vote for Kerry; 43 percent would vote for Bush. Nader would draw 5 percent of the vote, mostly at the expense of Kerry, who holds a two-point edge in the two-way contest." http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....ACRBAELCFFA?type=politicsNews&storyID=4978328
i was just about to start a new thread titled, "Latest Polling does not favor Bush", but Chump went ahead and put it in here. Therefore, take all previous comments and reverse them, so we can just save ourselves the effort of retyping it again.
