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The political polls are very interesting. When asked 'do you support the President' the results are statospheric, when asked 'do you support George W Bush' his rating is ten to 15 points lower.

From zogby.com "Overall, how would you rate President Bush's performance on the job?"
Excellent - 32.3%
Good - 30.0%
Fair - 26.2%
Poor - 11.4%

Seems pretty stratospheric to me.

When the question is 'who would you vote for in 2004' Bush is actually at only 45%.

I can't find the link, but the last poll to that effect I found showed Bush beating Gore 62-25, with 13% not sure.

Bush's opinion polls are still as high as they were during height of the "War on Terror."

Umm, this is actually not true. Zogby poll shows his rating down from 75% in March to 62% now (July). Rate of descent appears to be increasing significantly as well.

Yeah, plus real polls are conducted via random audiences, not everyone who visits a website. Thus, it is a volunteer poll, and the results are easily skewed, and there's nothing wrong with asking a few hundred of your friends to vote for something, or asking everyone in your company to vote for a certain option, since it is a volunteer poll, anyone can participate, and therefore, doesn't carry the same weight or validity as say, something done by zogby. (Much better results than Gallop and whoever else there is out there, btw.

Why am I not surprised at the results of this so-called "Poll"" ???

Gee, what's that smell????

Smells like.....ASTROTURF!!!

I love the smell of ASTROTURF in the morning. Smells like, MICROS~1 TROLLS!