Monday, March 13, 2006
ARE THE STUPID ABANDONING BUSH?
By Editors
A day without political polling is like a day without a colonoscopy! - Stockton.
So much polling lately, on Iraq, on Bush, on Barry Bonds. What neophytes fail to understand is that one must look behind the numbers, or up the skirt of the numbers, to get a truly accurate picture of America's mood.
It's not enough to say that 40% of Americans believe that our first "CEO President" is a competent manager. Competence means different things to different people. What is telling is that those same 40% also believe that Eight-Track tapes are "making a comeback."
Did you know that nearly 60% of Americans believe that Iraq will have their own Civil War? Of course you did. But, did you also know that more than half of that 60% believe the South will win this time?
Did you know that 37% of Americans approve of Bush's job performance? Probably. That's not news. What you probably missed is the fact that, by definition, half of America is of below-average intelligence. What does that mean? Nearly 13% of people with a below-average intelligence now think Bush is doing a poor job. That's a significant amount of his supporters and probably the constituency that put him over the top in both 2000 and 2004. In short, the stupid are abandoning the President. George W. Bush cannot afford to lose his base, but it looks like that is happening.
A day without political polling is like a day without a colonoscopy! - Stockton.
So much polling lately, on Iraq, on Bush, on Barry Bonds. What neophytes fail to understand is that one must look behind the numbers, or up the skirt of the numbers, to get a truly accurate picture of America's mood.
It's not enough to say that 40% of Americans believe that our first "CEO President" is a competent manager. Competence means different things to different people. What is telling is that those same 40% also believe that Eight-Track tapes are "making a comeback."
Did you know that nearly 60% of Americans believe that Iraq will have their own Civil War? Of course you did. But, did you also know that more than half of that 60% believe the South will win this time?
Did you know that 37% of Americans approve of Bush's job performance? Probably. That's not news. What you probably missed is the fact that, by definition, half of America is of below-average intelligence. What does that mean? Nearly 13% of people with a below-average intelligence now think Bush is doing a poor job. That's a significant amount of his supporters and probably the constituency that put him over the top in both 2000 and 2004. In short, the stupid are abandoning the President. George W. Bush cannot afford to lose his base, but it looks like that is happening.
