Another Poll Shows Bush Still in the Dog House
by Jeff Davis
As a kind of cheap, plastic and Styrofoam substitute for real democracy, America has become a nation driven by opinion polls. Some polls are reasonably impartial while others carefully word each question to cause as much bias as possible. A few polls are completely unbelievable being total works of fabrication or the people polled were almost certainly all members of the same political think tank. The polls by Zogby and similar large polling agencies tend to have some credibility to them.
Not long ago Bush sank to a 33 percent approval rating in a major poll –a remarkably low figure for someone not yet indicted or impeached. Last fall a Zogby poll found that a majority of Americans supported an impeachment of Bush if he lied us into war. Bush’s approval has continued to wallow in the 30s in poll after poll. The continuing quagmire in Iraq and a seemingly endless string of blunders and missteps keeps reminding the public that something is wrong with Bush. When Americans were asked to describe Bush with a single word, the most common response was “incompetent.” (more…)