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AMERICAblog: ABC News/Wash. Post: 90% of voters see U.S. on wrong track; Bush at 23% approval; Obama leads 53% - 43%

  • ChicagoJim · 1 year ago
    I don't know, but I canvassed one of them on Saturday for Dan Seals (IL-10). He tried to blame the current economic crisis on the Democratic takeover of Congress in 2006. I pointed out that the problem had been building for more than 2 years and he agreed saying it was probably Bill Clinton's fault. There is no reasoning with dead-enders.
  • ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago
    People only see what they WANT to see.
  • vickif · 1 year ago
    I'm in Dupage County and we're probably going to get stuck with Roskum again. I wish Tammy Duckworth was running again instead of Morganthal. Tammy was so much better.
  • kh7463 · 1 year ago
    That's why I didn't go canvassing in Indiana over the weekend (among other things). I didn't think I could keep my cool around people like that.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    the goof with the stuffed monkey in Ohio - or was it PA? - is one...

    some people choose to remain ignorant.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    I have one in my family.....there is no talking to them....they admit Bush is bad but it's all the fault of the last two years of the Dem Congress and Bill Clinton.

    How bad does it have to get for some of these people to wake up......unbelievable.

    I think some people just can't admit they were/are wrong .
  • michaelt · 1 year ago
    don't feel like the lone ranger. my mother is a fan of palin. why?

    because she likes what she did in alaska.

    what did she do in alaska i asked?

    i don't like where this conversation is going was the reply.

    i give up trying to convince them, i just take comfort that her opinion is in the minority.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Seven in my family are in that 23%. No matter what, it is always the fault of Democrats. Of course the behavior of the Dems for the past 2 years, especially the House with Pelosi, has just reinforced their opinions.
  • Charles2 · 1 year ago
    Lower than Nixon's worst.

    That's going to leave a mark.

    On W's "legacy" AND on McCain's campaign.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    From the Times Caucus:

    Has Senator John McCain fallen too far behind, too late in the presidential campaign, to overtake Senator Barack Obama?

    That is the question facing strategists in both parties three weeks before Election Day. History suggests that the answer is probably so.

    “At this point,” said Matthew Dowd, a strategist for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, “the campaign is totally out of John McCain’s hands."

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/1...

    buy bye John and Snowjob Sarah
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    I am not too sure about this. Remember McCain was counted out during the primary and he came back to win it, something the surprised the hell out of the Republicans.
  • nothingasitseems · 1 year ago
    "Okay, so after all Bush has put us through, who are the 23% of Americans who still approve of George Bush's job performance?"

    I think I saw one of the 23% yesterday. Someone driving a 8 mpg pick-up truck with both a "McCain/Palin" and a "W '04" bumper sticker. I just wanted to follow them until they arrived at their destination and ask them, "What the fuck?!"
  • bigassbelle · 1 year ago
    The real question is who the hell are the 10%??? And what rock are they hiding under?
  • TheAngryFag · 1 year ago
    People who have die-hard support for Republicans and will stick with them no matter how bad things get. These are the kind of people who would not vote for God or Jesus if they ran as Democrats. I sadly have to count some of my own family in that pool. One in particular thinks that all the McCain criticism is just Democrats trying to bring him and Sarah down. You know, rabid Democrats like Peggy Noonan who was a special assistant and speech writer for Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush.
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    Sarahpolean has met her Waterloo.
  • RayDuray · 1 year ago
    Hi Joe,

    Regarding the 23% who love Bush, it is important to keep in mind that 22% of Russians still love Joe Stalin. Some will call these types dead enders, but a more accurate and useful term is "authoritarian followers". John Dean wrote about the work of Canadian academician Bob Altmeyer on this social phenomen.

    Author Interview Video

    Transcript

    Those who have a taste for eerie coincidence will note the following from the 2006 interview of John Dean: "The lead researcher in this field told me, he said, "I look at the numbers of the United States and I see about 23% of the population who are pure right-wing authoritarian followers." They're not going to change. They're going to march over the cliff."

    Hopefully these bastards don't take us down with them.
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    Who are the 23%? My guess is the single issue voters.
  • gonzalez · 1 year ago
    I would also like to meet some of the 23%. I bet this is the trash!
  • cwzilla · 1 year ago
    What I have heard is that the ppl doing all this hatefull crap are wait for it wait for it ..........obama plants in the crowd to make mcgrampy look bad lol yeah rite these are tru red rethugs and they scream what they are hatefull

    ps better be looking out for that tape of osama bin laudin to come out soon and the color coded terror warning to come back flashing bright red warning warning attack immenint !!!!! well what else do they have but fear??
  • minik · 1 year ago
    No 23% don't support his performance. But 23% of Americans are the kind who can never admit they were wrong.
  • Sarrellec · 1 year ago
    The super-rich which have directly benefitted from the corporate revenue raiding administration and those whose IQ's hover around 70.
    Did you SEE and HEAR those people at that townhall meeting thing McCain had during which he had to correct them that Obama wasn't an Arab nor a terrorist?
    These are NOT the sharpest tools in the shed, folks.
  • bluestockton · 1 year ago
    Probably a few bereaved families of soldiers who died in Iraq or Afghanistan, because to admit that Bush is a failure is to face the fact that their loved ones died for nothing.
  • Webster · 1 year ago
    OT--but worth remembering: Matthew Shepard died ten years ago after a brutal beating, and still our leaders have done nothing about changing the law protecting gays and lesbians.

    http://www.matthewshepard.org/site/PageServer
  • jescot · 1 year ago
    The 23% are easy to find...they are on line and in McCains Rallys
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    "Okay, so after all Bush has put us through, who are the 23% of Americans who still approve of George Bush's job performance?"

    Does Bush have that large a family or group of friends?
  • Saffi · 1 year ago
    Actually, considering that John Rogers' crazification factor is 29%, we're doing pretty good:

    http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-disc...

    The post is over three years old, but still pertinent. I looked it up just this Saturday, because I was looking for the quote at the end, but considering all the neo-fascist rallies lately, I can't bring myself to repeat it here.

    It just isn't funny anymore.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Coming soon to a Democracy near you: The Landslide Punitive Election of 2008.

    Kick the Arrogant Republican Swine out of Washington.
  • marblex · 1 year ago
    "no presidential candidate has come back from an October deficit this large in pre-election polls dating to 1936...."

    Of course, they didn't have DIEBOLD back then.
  • EmGD · 1 year ago
    He's always been sub-Nixon in my heart. Now it's good to know he's sub-Nixon in America's too.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
  • imjussayin · 1 year ago
    Okay, so after all Bush has put us through, who are the 23% of Americans who still approve of George Bush's job performance?


    That 23% is about all the support McCain is going to get by the time this election is over.
  • kh7463 · 1 year ago
    "who are the 23% of Americans who still approve of George Bush's job performance?"

    I think they live in Indiana. Sheesh what a bunch of morons downstate. I work at a university. We had an individual come today asking to put fliers on the cars of students claiming to be excerpts from something by Creators Syndicate, Inc. and RealClearPolitics. Thankfully our campus doesn't allow just anyone to hand things out (it's a trash thing). Although he is allowed to post this crap on our bulletin boards.