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3%.  No, I’m Not Kidding.
by Lee

So you think Bush sucks?

A majority of American adults (54%) lack confidence in President Bush’s ability as Commander in Chief of the U.S. military, a new UPI/Zogby Interactive poll shows. A majority (60%) said they do not trust the president’s judgment when it comes to the war, while 38% say they have faith in his military decisions.

Just 24% give the president favorable ratings of his performance in handling the war in Iraq, but confidence in Congress is significantly worse – only 3% give Congress positive marks for how it has handled the war. This lack of confidence in Congress cuts across all ideologies. Democrats – some of whom had hoped the now Democrat-led Congress would bring an end to the war in Iraq – expressed overwhelming displeasure with how Congress has handled the war, with 94% giving Congress a negative rating in its handling specifically of that issue.

The online survey was conducted July 13–16, 2007, and included 7,590 respondents. It carries a margin of error of +/– 1.1 percentage points.

Of course, as we all know, you can’t trust polls. Unless they make Democrats look bad.

Posted by Lee on 08/02/07 at 05:28 PM (Discuss this in the forums)

Comments


Posted by dwex on 08/02/07 at 05:44 PM from United States

OK, so I’m gonna repeat my quote from the musicals topic. From 1776:

Another flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere. Or a cataclysmic earthquake, I’d accept with some despair. But no, you sent us Congress. Good God, sir! Was that fair?

Posted by on 08/02/07 at 06:25 PM from Australia

To my mind, this makes perfect sense, and I disagree with your analysis. The question asked was “Overall, how would you rate Congress’s performance in handling the war in Iraq?”

There is no time period attached to this. Republicans will answer negatively due to the Democrats’ recent grandstanding and publicity stunts on ending the war, and the Democrats will answer negatively due to the Republicans’ recent obstructionism and decisions it took in the previous Congress not to perform oversight on the war.

Independants MAY be answering negatively not because they disagree with the Democrats’ current positions or tactics, but because they disagree with the Republicans’ obstructionism.

The real mystery is - who are the 3% and what are they smoking????

Posted by Para on 08/02/07 at 06:36 PM from United States

The real mystery is - who are the 3% and what are they smoking????

Maybe they are crediting Congress with the surge?

Posted by dwex on 08/02/07 at 06:40 PM from United States

The real mystery is - who are the 3% and what are they smoking????

Al Quaeda and Hashish

Posted by West Virginia Rebel on 08/02/07 at 08:14 PM from United States

Para: “Won’t somebody please open a window!”

Posted by West Virginia Rebel on 08/02/07 at 08:15 PM from United States

Sorry, that was for dwex.

Posted by howco on 08/02/07 at 09:29 PM from United States

I think this poll is loaded.

R- Congress is not funding wants to pull out has done nothing about ethics ect. ect.

D- Congress is not pulling out and is funding the war without a timetable, wont impeach Bush. ect. ect.

People wanted to see change from Congress and about the only thing they have managed to to is maintain the status quo. Therefore everyone is pissed off.

I bet if this poll were taken without the “handling of the war” issue in there the numbers would be higher.

Posted by on 08/02/07 at 10:18 PM from United States

Lee, you skepticism of anything republican is staggering.

Posted by Lee on 08/02/07 at 10:26 PM from United States

Lee, you skepticism of anything republican is staggering.

???

Elaborate.

Posted by Lee on 08/02/07 at 10:27 PM from United States

Here’s the actual questions that were asked in the poll.

Posted by on 08/03/07 at 07:00 AM from United States

I think the 3% is due to Republicans reflexive hatred of Congress in general and Democrats pissed that Congress hasn’t done shit to try to end the war (not that they could anyway).  Oh and gas prices...it’s always the government’s fault.

Posted by dwex on 08/03/07 at 08:24 AM from United States

Won’t somebody please open a window

Piddle, twiddle, and resolve. Not one damned thing do we solve. Piddle, twiddle, and resolve. Nothing’s ever solved in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia!

Man, I love that musical. I’ve wanted to play that role since I was a kid.

Posted by Brian at Tomfoolery on 08/03/07 at 09:12 AM from United States

Lee, like I’ve said before, I could make a poll that finds more Americans have heard of this website than have heard of the New York Times.

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