Texas style *BUMP* y'all!

Ipsos, an international polling firm, conducted the poll of 1,000 adults between August 1-3. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points

Wow. 1000 Americans tell us what the entire population thinks. I bet this is one of those polls where it's 70% democrats and 30% republicans polled.

His solution? Going on yet another vacation in Crawford.

You do realize that the President doesn't go on vacation. It's a 24 hour job no matter where you are or what you are doing.

Well, regardless of what playbook the liberals are playing out of, I do think that it is of some concern, if not to the President himself, it should be to the conservatives. Any Republican party member that attempts to run behind Bush in '08 will have to be influenced by Bush's ratings. It's a pretty easy step to go from saying "See what Bush did!" to "See what the Republicans did!".

Don't get me wrong, I'm a Bush supporter and generally conservative by nature. And I don't think that a President should always act in accordance with polls, either. Just saying that there is more to this than saying "So what".

On a side note, I wish I could take a vacation every time a majority of my students were unhappy with my performance. I'd start dishing out heavy homework every night!

Damn Straight Chip! I'm glad somebody got the point! Thanks!

The Nixon comment was a joke, and i agree with you.

It's true that a president should not govern by polls. That's one thing that bugged me about bubba. The glaring point is how far and how fast he has fallen, and his seemingly "devil-may-care" attitude.

There's a war going on, as you righties like pointing out. I think that he should be at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave when Marines are getting killed by the dozen, and not mountainbiking around the Texas hill country.

You're right. But how big are this guy's batteries? I wish i made $200,000 a year and could hang out at the house as much as he does... ::

How come everybody but the Doc is trying to blame his performance on the lefties?

C'mon Mod, i know you are definately a bush supporter, but he's dropping the ball. Also, if the left wing is powerless, how can you say they're so effective?

That's better! ::

Good to hear from you Mod!

There have been previous presidents with lower scores (Nixon and Truman during their last terms for example).

You do know that while Truman was in office his rating was very low, but now he is placed seventh as the best President. Link

All the great presidents are the ones who made the hard decisions. Lincoln also had low approval rating, and he is rated third.

The question will be if the Democrats will be able to produce a good candidate in 2008. Many Republicans that I know would love to see another Kerry choice. IMO Governor Richardson of Arizona would be a good candidate. But who ever the Republicans run will not be stuck with Bush's legacy because of the following reasons:

1. The VP will not be running, so the Gore/Clinton stigma will not be there.

2. While the wars in Iraq maybe unpopular, all indications show that the general public knows that it is something that must be completed. So any pro-war Republican will not be dinged for supporting actions there.

IMO it will be the great race for the center in the 2008 election and if one of the parties decides not to run for the center it will lose.

The radical left has finally started to be ignored by the middle, but unfortunately they did gain many of the key funding positions in the DNC. We will have to see if that will affect the primaries.

As for the Republicans I believe the front runners at this time are more moderate, but that may not help much if there is no clear primary leader by the time that the religious South gets their chance to vote. That will determine if Bush's legacy will hurt the next candidate, if he/she is a person of socially religious politics.

But as for rating affecting Bush..... Who cares? He will just be as dead politically as Clinton is now, in three years.

Bill Richardson is governor of New Mexico. We have a socialist governor here - Napolitano.

Sorry to here about the socialist Daiwa and I had remembered my mistake half-way to a friends house, Ooops.

When you have had the job for five years, and have spent about one year of it on vacation...Well yeah i think it's worth mention.

I love how some of you can only make an issue out of the vacation thing, when I only mentioned it in passing. The meat of the issue is the poll numbers. You folks are all about the poll numbers when things are going good for dubya. When his numbers flag, all of a sudden they mean bupkis. Others say, "It's biased, the evil left wing media is cooking the numbers!" Or, "The AP is controlled by the Liberals". What a load. I'll bet if Fox News conducted a poll they would show similar numbers. The guy is not living up to his own hype folks. Face it. It's like that scene in the Wizard of Oz when the curtain gets pulled back. The American public is beginning to see through the smoke and mirrors.

And they ain't happy with what they are seeing.

Helen Thomas will die!

if novak doesnt get the chief justice seat, maybe he can be nominated to fill her ummmmmm shoes?

if novak doesnt get the chief justice seat, maybe he can be nominated to fill her ummmmmm shoes?