Bush Ratings Complicate McCain's Presidential Fight »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 2 months agoBush disapproval rating in the Journal poll is particularly striking among a number of key voter blocs for Mr. McCain in the November election: older voters (67%), women (71%) and independents (75%). Sen. McCain is trapped in the president's toxic political shadow.
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Radiofreeeuropa2 months ago
FTA -Now for Mr. McCain to win in November, "at least one-third of McCain's voters will have to be people who disapprove of the job George Bush is doing," most of them independents, says Republican pollster Neil Newhouse. And Sen. McCain must accomplish that feat while continuing to align himself with Mr. Bush on the administration's most controversial policies, notably the Iraq war.
Since Bush's disapproval among independents is well over 70%, How will McCain win their votes on a platform of "stay the course"? (Which he must tout in order to get the Republican base to vote for him.)
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Radiofreeeuropa2 months ago
I guess you have to be for and against everything to be elected these days.
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hyperbola2 months ago
I have seen nothing that indicates that McCain will reverse the 30 years of corruption that has engulfed the US since the "small government evangelicals" first came to power. Indeed, given that McCain has been involved in at least four instances of government corruption, he would seem to be more of the same dead end.
Conservatives and Their Carnival of Fraud
Politics Ã;¢;; Did Adam Smith-tied evangelists of "limited government" have any idea they were greasing the skids for 22-year-old arms dealers? How could a kid barely able to buy beer secure a nearly $300 million defense contract? When they finally put their theory into practice, conservatives contrived one of the most wasteful systems ever seen.
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/06/30/...
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hyperbola2 months ago
IMF Finally Knocks on Uncle Sam's Door
Money â;; The fact that the IMF is knocking on the very doors of its parents and waving legal papers about who lost the house, the car and the kids will, if the past is anything to go by, be buried in the US by pom-pom waving on CNBC telling all what a great time it is to buy. The US Fed has now lost its last vestige of credibility.
http://money.propeller.com/story/2008/07/01/imf...
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cowboygrandpa2 months ago
fergie:
Well, an ant wouldn't have to lift its leg to gain clearance. LMAO
He could fit under the clearance of a door that is closing to keep him out.
That is how low a pest he is. LOL
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MurphyStout2 months ago
McCain can not escape Bush's shadow because he is bush, he supports almost every policy bush had.
McCain is a war hero, but a pathetic politician.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS2 months ago
Le Muffette Jr. doesn't need GW. He's doing a bang up job of shooting himself in the foot. Not to mention everywhere else to boot.
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cowboygrandpa2 months ago
Wolfie:
Obama is not being hurt. Because Bush has caused a terrible thing in this country.
It is called neocon terror. We want it gone. We want Bush and Cheney and all those who favor their folly out of office forever.
So here is your answer. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
The 6% rating is from Republicans. The only reason Bush has any rating above a four is the people like you who fail to see the error of your way.
But hey it's OK. Think what you like. Bush is gone and McCain won't get there. Thank God and Greyhound they are gone.
LMAO
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hamy2 months ago
Umm...wow. You seem to think that because congress is lower than Bush in their approval rating that there is some correlation. Congress is hundreds of representatives in two houses.
Bush is one man.
One pathetic, narcissistic, small minded man.
His rating is personal. And I personally hate congress for what the republicans did in giving Bush unlimited power for the last six years. So when I say that I am disappointed in congress, I am not disappointed in those who are trying unsucessfully to undo what Bush and his cronies have done. I am upset with those who gave him that power in the first place.
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Radiofreeeuropa2 months ago
That is the impetus behind most people's low opinion of congress as well.
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Spadecaller2 months ago
Don't trust the slanted polls; they do not account for young Obama supporters and newly registered voters who have traditionally stayed away from the polls in the last election. These voters are not being tracked accurately.
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Poulenc2 months ago
Radio: "I guess you have to be for and against everything to be elected these days...."
Yes!
The rapid change of tack, back and forth, is probably (at least partly) a function of the expanded media universe and its super-quick exchange of info.
The media demand news (or "news") at an alarming rate; every idea is challenged by someone, which fact is also reported, instantaneously.
Even message-stable pols--or their handlers--get dizzy, and are apt to go in compensation mode at the first hint that something hasn't gone down with...someone.
In other words, the messenger can and does dictate the terms of the message.
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