Ignore anyone who attacks the source and not the argument. That is called ad hominem, and it is an end-around to real thinking.
That said, a poll cannot determine whether or not we are winning any war. We could take a poll right now to determine which of the world's religions reflects the real truth, but no majority can really make that determination.
(That does not necessarily mean that the surge isn't working either, by the way.)
Secondly, even if we took the Fox poll as gospel, we could not describe Bush's approval rating as "skyrocketing." Climbing from 31% to 37% is good for him, but certainly not exactly a meteoric rise. After all, the approval rating for Congress (Democrat majority) also rose by about the same number of percentage points.
For those who are hoping to continue the war effort, the polls are somewhat encouraging, but certainly not dispositive or worth celebrating.
2007-09-14 10:56:44
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answered by Martin L 5
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I don't know where the GOP buy your skyrockets, but I think you should ask Karl Rove News for a refund.
September 13, 2007
President Bush’s approval rating at 36
WASHINGTON (CNN) — How does the American public feel about George W. Bush's record as the president prepares for a speech to the country on Thursday night?
More than six in ten Americans disapprove of how Bush is handling his job, according to a CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll out Thursday morning. The same number feels that President Bush’s policies are moving the country in the wrong direction.
Mr. Bush’s approval rating, now at 36 percent, is unchanged from our last poll conducted in August. Bush’s approval numbers have hovered around the mid-30s since the start of the year.
How does the president stack up against the Democratic majority in Congress? 50 percent say the policies of the Democratic leaders would move the country in the right direction; only 34 percent feel that way about Mr. Bush. The CNN-Opinion Research Corporation Poll questioned 1,017 adult Americans between September 7 and 9. The survey’s sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.
2007-09-14 10:52:55
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answered by oldmechanicsrule 3
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His approval rating does not suggest that the surge is working. It shows that more Americans think the surge is working. So many Americans are so easily conned.
How many still believe that 9/11 was an attack by Iraq?
By the way -- his approval rating is still low.
Our troops were sent to Iraq under false pretenses. Be that as it may, the understanding of Americans is that the troops are there to benefit the Iraqis. This being true, why do so many Americans hate Iraqis? Also, if our troops are to be benefiting Iraqis, why aren't Americans demanding real news about the ordinary homeless Iraqis hugging his/her dead child. You all know its happening.
By the way, I, in no way, encouraging or lauding suicide, or other bombers killing ordinary Iraqis.
2007-09-14 11:01:26
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answered by Anonymous
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They darn well need to start caring if they don't. If at the end of President Bush's second term he winds up with a better than 50% approval rating. It will make the election hard on the democrats.
They might not understand that yet. So give them some time before they start worrying about it.
I just love how people hate Fox News. Fox News is the #1 ranked news channel and has been for 5 years now.
Sunny G - Check your facts! Inflation has been under control for awhile now. In fact I am still mystified by the democrats constantly screaming about how bad the economy is and yet everywhere I go there are help wanted signs. The news papers (from both coasts) are full of companies looking for people. Unemployment is lower than when Clinton was in office. *shrug* Where is this terrible economy they are screaming about?
2007-09-14 10:44:57
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answered by Anonymous
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The Gallup Poll has Bush at an approval rating of 33% for Sept 6/7, 2007, which is just 4 percentage points higher than his all time low of 29% this past July. Hardly what I'd call "skyrocketing".
As for Iraq, yesterdays assasination by al Qaida of Shiek Abdul Sattar Abu Risha is going to hit us hard in the Anbar provence. I expect the violence there is going to escalate unless his brother can keep it together.
Try getting your info somewhere other than Fox "We Luv Bush" News.
2007-09-14 10:46:37
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answered by Judy L 4
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I'd find his "skyrocketing" approval rating more believable if it wasn't in a poll done by FOX "News." But this is a good time to remind you of a simple mathematical fact: any increase from 0 is infinite. As for America winning the war in Iraq, that won't be decided by polls of Americans comfortably driving their yellow-ribbon festooned SUV safely at home, but by what happens militarily in Iraq. It doesn't look good over there. Vietnam version 2.0, anyone?
2007-09-14 11:08:50
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answered by Anonymous
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I'm a republican too; but you don't know much about what's going on do you? Who's winning isn't the most important thing right now..
It doesn't freaking matter who's winning the war! It's not going to make anything better if we win; terrorism will continue to exist and so will nuclear weapons. And the soldiers that have and are dying can never be replaced.
It's times like this that being a republican or democrat doesn't matter; I'm sick of politics, right now both sides are full of bs.
2007-09-14 10:43:06
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answered by Bobby 3
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Here's a prediction:
Bear in mind this srt of "comeback" has happened before--and unfolded much the same way as my prediction----
>First, this is not Bush's approval rating, it is aboutthe initial impression that Americans got from the Petraeus report and Bush's speech.
>Less than half of the American people believed it (don't yell at me--that's what the Foxstory says).
>within a short time, that figure will drop--to about 1/3 or less.
>any "bounce" in bush's approval ratings will be equally short-lived.
Remember, you read it here first! :)
2007-09-14 10:49:24
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answered by Anonymous
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Up from 33% to 37% is not skyrocketing, nor is it a sign that anything is back, it's only one in three, not good odds by any means. And a poll by FOX, you're going have to get another source to give any credibility to that poll.
2007-09-14 10:48:10
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answered by Anonymous
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Ebb and flow buddy....
One day you're up, and the next day.. BAM - a IED goes off in Baghdad, and 10 Americans get killed... Suddenly you're down again...
No one is WINNING this war... we're just not losing too badly right now.
As a long time conservative Republican, I wish we'd get the hell out of Iraq, and let the Iranians flood in (like they are anxiously waiting to do) and let's see how well they make out with that problem area....
It's only a matter of time.
2007-09-14 10:46:08
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answered by minitrail70 5
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