Thursday, August 18, 2005

THE OVER-ALL POLL NUMBERS DON'T SHOW HOW HUGE THE DISSATISFACTION WITH BUSH ACTUALLY IS

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All the new polls show Bush's job approval rating continuing to fall. But it isn't until you look at the state by state numbers in each state, provided by Survey USA (http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/08/17/bush_approval_continues_to_fall.html/) that you get a sense of how people have turned against the Bush Regime and his disastrous policies. Although his overall job approval rating is at 41% nationally, a quick look at the state-by-state results show that it is only a handful of backward states with low education standards in which primitive religious beliefs predominate where Bush is over 50%: Alabama, Texas, Idaho, Nebraska, Utah, North Dakota and Wyoming. In the heavily populated states which make the biggest contributions in terms of taxes, Bush's approval doesn't even approach a relatively lofty 41%. Ohio has just crossed the 60% mark in people who disapprove of his job performance. In New York 62% disapprove, same as in California, Maryland and Connecticut. In Massachusetts and Delaware the disapproval is 64% and in Rhode Island its 68%! Even states that strongly supported his 2004 re-election bid like Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Dakota, Kansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana, South Carolina, Kentucky have turned against him! Compared to last month's poll, Bush's approval numbers dropped 5 or more points in 10 states. The single largest drop was in Minnesota, where it fell 10 points. Bush also fell 9 points in New Mexico. GOP politicians facing re-election in 2006 are starting to panic.

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At 7:44 AM, Blogger DownWithTyranny said...

My friend Danny asked me if there is any correlation between the states' approval/disapproval numbers of Bush and the average IQ scores by state. It's not a one-to-one correlation but, as you wuld have guessed, ALL the states with high average IQs have very high net disapproval numbers and the only states with net approval numbers for Bush are states with low IQ averages). This chart ranks each state by average IQ and then lists the average income followed by the net approval rating. (The net approval rating is the disappove number subtracted from the approve number.)

(1) Connecticut- 113  $26,979  (-29%)  
(2) Massachusetts- 111  $24,059 (-32%)  
(3) New Jersey- 111  $26,457  (-26%) 
(4) New York- 109    $23,534   (-28%)
(5) Rhode Island- 107  $20,299 (-39%) 
(6) Hawaii- 106  $21,218    (-6%)
(7) Maryland - 105  $22,974   (-28%)
(8) New Hampshire- 105 $22,934 (-13%)  
(9) Illinois- 104   $21,608    (-19%)
(10) Delaware- 103  $21,451   (-32%)
(11) Minnesota- 102  $20,049  (-20%)
(12) Vermont- 102   $18,834   (-30%)
(13) Washington- 102  $20,398  (-17%)
(14) California- 101  $21,278  (-30%)
(15) Pennsylvania- 101 $20,253 (-16%) 
(16) Maine- 100  $18,226      (-18%)
(17) Virginia- 100  $20,629   (-10%)
(18) Wisconsin- 100  $18,727  (-14%)
(19) Colorado-99   $20,124    (-8%)
(20) Iowa- 99   $18,287     (-13%)
(21) Michigan- 99  $19,508  (-20%)
(22) Nevada- 99  $20,266   (-17%)
(23) Ohio- 99   $18,624    (-23%)
(24) Oregon- 99  $18,202   (-15%)
(25) Alaska- 98  $21,603    (-3%)
(26) Florida- 98  $19,397   (-9%)
(27) Missouri- 98  $18,835  (-20%)
(28) Kansas- 96   $19,376   (-4%)
(29) Nebraska- 95  $19,084  (13%)
(30) Arizona- 94   $17,119  (-7%)
(31) Indiana- 94  $18,043  (-1%)
(32) Tennessee- 94  $17,341 (-9%)
(33) North Carolina- 93 $17,667 (0%)
(34) West Virginia- 93  $15,065 (-6%)
(35) Arkansas- 92   $15,439   (-16%)
(36) Georgia- 92   $18,130   (-4%)
(37) Kentucky- 92  $16,534   (-11%)
(38) New Mexico- 92  $15,353  (-15%)
(39) North Dakota- 92  $16,854  (6%)
(40) Texas- 92   $17,892    (11%)
(41) Alabama- 90  $16,220   (7%)
(42) Louisiana- 90  $15,712   (0%)
(43) Montana- 90   $16,062    (5%)
(44) Oklahoma- 90   $16,198   (4%)
(45) South Dakota- 90  $16,558 (-7%)
(46) South Carolina- 89 $15,989 (-6%)
(47) Wyoming- 89   $17,423   (20%)
(48) Idaho- 87  $16,067   (23%)
(49) Utah- 87   $15,325   (19%)
(50) Mississippi- 85  $14,088 (2%)

 
At 9:15 AM, Blogger KenInNY said...

Marc and Mark took pains to note on this morning's Air America Radio "Morning Sedition" that suddenly next week our one and only president is going to take time off from his vacation to visit . . . Idaho! In Idaho, it appears, his approval rating remains 59 pecent. (Wonder if he's mastered the skill of chewing a baked potato.)

The boys also noted that Chimpy has never BEEN to Idaho, and wondered whether he might not be more popular now in the places where they DON'T actually know him.

By the way, in Marc and Mark's daily chat with Cindy Shepard this morning, she seemed surprisingly unimpressed by Chimpy's recently expressed determination to get on with his life. It didn't seem particularly to comfort her that with this great effort of will he is somehow managing to get over the death of her son.

K

 
At 9:58 AM, Blogger Timcanhear said...

even though his poll numbers are bad, cheney and bush and rove don't care. they think they are in the game for another 3 years and the damage to this country can be, as it already is, immense.
we're making headway however as the polls show and we must all remind our friends to remind their friends and their friends, friends
to listen to Air America Radio and be active. if Air America succeeds, there will be more progressive voices to help re-shape this dismal government of ours.

 

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