Newsweek polls have Cheney'a approval rates at 30% and the Congress & Senate 14%? What does that say?

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ABC News had Cheney 2day. SO that is current. No link for the other this week. Are the polls off? So then the system is flawed? Hillary Clinton and the rest their numbers? Flawed? And we speculate living on these numbers. What do you think? I am not excited about the VP but feel he should be able to be in control where the documents go. The National Archives can not be a guarantee of anything but a complete expose. SO where are the documents Sandy Berger destroyed altering the 9-11 Commission Report? Bring it on. Full disclosure, each party and elected official. You can not look into one w/out the others.
And if Dick Cheney has better numbers than the bunch on the hill? What does that say? Thanks alot. Appreciate solid answers and less bashing here. Mahalo.

Thanks folks you are totally proving my point. Polls are deceptive yet they are a gage in who America votes for President. What I also feel is that these numbers portray the performance of the candidates holding down two jobs and asking for our support when they are failing to do the jobs they were already elected to do. How many Senators from both aisles are busy elsewherw now? Thank you so much.

Answer 1

Cheney wasnt required to provide any document to the national archive to comply with the law....all the law requires him to do is give an accounting of how many documents he classified or declassified for the year...he isnt even required to tell anyone what those documents were.

Answer 2

If you take a so-called political poll in say, San Fransisco you're almost assured of negative ratings for ANY conservative. However, the same poll taken in Fightertown USA would give you the opposite results. And of course you could flip-flop that for a liberal. So I don't put a whole lot of stock in political polling. However, that said, I can't imagine ANYONE who approves or disapproves of Dick Cheney's on the job performance. I mean, where the hell has this guy been the last six plus years? Everything is so secretive with him that nobody knows for certain whether or not he's done anything good or bad while serving as Vice President. He could have died five years ago from one of his thousands of health issues for all we know.
You rarely, if ever see the man. I'm wondering seriously if the guy EVER existed. Perhaps he's been a hologram all this time. A bizarre experiment being tested on the American people.

Answer 3

I am very critical of Congress because they have failed to stand up to Bush on Iraq war funding. Congress would get a low approval rating from me but they can correct by standing firm against Bush on the next Iraq funding request.

I can’t tolerate Cheney. Therefore, matching Congress against Cheney as far as approval ratings doesn’t tell the whole story.

Cheney thinks he has his own branch of government and can withhold documents under any ridiculous pretext. I have no idea why 30% of the poll’s respondents would give Cheney a positive approval rating. There is apparently a die-hard group of Cheney supporters who are divorced from reality.

Answer 4

We've seemed to become fixated with polls! I dont take any value in polls. All you have to do is look how they ask the question and usually how twisted it is. Why poll a V.P.? The house and senate being at 14% seems way too high to me. They are shpwing how they lie to get elected; then turn around and pass laws that benefit themselves. I guess when you are taking large donations from special interest, a simple blowj*b as a return favor isn't good enough. I would however love to see a remake of Deliverence, with Ted Kennedy getting his big fat azz reemed to no end.....It be funny to see a guy stand up, cross his legs, and still be able to take a dump.

Answer 5

Dick Cheney is one person whereas the Congress & Senate comprises of hundreds of people.

This means that the Congress & Senate have hundreds more opportunities to make mistakes than a single Vice Presdient does.

Bring into consideration that VPs don't exactly have the heaviest workload, and you can deduce that Cheney's higher APPROVAL rating does not necessarily mean a higher POPULARITY rating.

Answer 6

To me it says that Democrats who thought that a Democrat congress would be able to fix everything quickly, end the war in Iraq, etc. are disappointed, so they give congress low marks too. DEms are more critical thinkers; they'll criticize their own more readily than (R)'s will. Hopefully they'll realize that government is always sluggish and not throw up their hands in 2008 and go vote for a (R) or a spoiler like Nader in 2000. (He's a great guy, but thanks for the idealists in 2000 who voted for him,look what we got. 10,000 plus Nader voters in Florida alone!)
Another idea: Fewer Dems are at home to answer their phones for polls. ???

Answer 7

Americans hate Cheney..Enough said

Answer 8

i think the numbers merely reflect the stubborn backwards 28% that still hang on to this administration, most likely for personal greed.
The 14% approval rating of Congress reflects the disappointment of the American public regarding Congress NOT STOPPING THIS WAR and I have yet to find anyone that agrees with President Bush and some of the democrats on this immigration bill they are stuffing down our throats

Answer 9

the guy before me isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer..

Polls like this are revealing..if the Polls that the left feel engender them to think they have the next President..then they have to accept this one for what it is too.

Answer 10

Cheney's a complete madman, with no respect for governance of the people, by the people, for the people.

You can say what you want, but that man is sitting in DC plotting the destruction of our country, for his own personal gain.