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Please do. I don't form opinions on polling numbers, nor should anyone in power. I'm not trying to use "sauce" in this thread. I am attempting to have an intelligent discussion and am accomodating myself accordingly.

How am I ignoring what the poll says? I acknowledged and explained what the poll says. When your sample is of flawed data, your result must be eronious. It would be the same if there was a 30 point shift the other way. I am not disagreeing with the poll in any way shape or form. I am debunking the poll and it's (their) legitimacy.

It is indeed an Ad Hominem argument, but a valid use of such as I make no particular judgement of the outcome of the poll, rather the sampling set used to procure the data. Always remember, Flea, I'm smarter than you are. Nothing personal.

You can do whatever you like, with impunity. You're a liberal.

I don't believe you because you're a Pubbie.

No fuss, no muss. I could do this all day!

And now we sound like congress.

Any chance we can get back to the original question?

Sorry, for those of you not able to read between the lines and pick out the obviously implied...

I think the image problem revolves around the fact that most Americans are retarded. I don't value their opinions, and don't believe that said opinions will be reflected in the polls come November.

Now, the more important question, why must you people find fault with the little things and ignore all the wonderful things that the President and the Republican Congress have done for the economy?

Not at all. It may be a completely accurate depiction of the opinions of people you consider to be blithering idiots, but it's still completely accurate.

You may discount the results as unimportant, but you can't claim that the results don't accurately reflect public perception.

But I'm sure that, at this point, you're just trolling. You're smarter than your arguments would suggest.

Let's just remove the middle-man (the President) and put every policy decision to a poll of 1,000 randomly selected registered voters. Then, the same 1,000 people can give themselves a 100% approval rating for their uninformed and impulsive decision. Sound good?

I don't think that many of the things I mentioned before are "little", but we all make our own decisions on the weight of their importance.

Really, the economy hasn't affected me much one way or the other. I pay about as much in taxes as I used to, my fiscal comfort level is pretty much unchanged and the whole thing hasn't affected me one way or the other. The biggest money issue affecting me is probably energy prices (gasoline and heating) though I don't directly blame Bush for either. You could argue that I'm not taking advantage of it though I am in school at present and working my way along towards a brighter tomorrow. That has little to do with today's economy though. I'm also not thrilled with the whole "cut taxes and expand spending" mode that our Congress is engaged in but, yet again, it's been talked about before.

But you had previously asked explictly about Bush and I kept my remarks confined to him. If we're expanding to include everything the Republican Congress has done and my impressions of it, I can tack a decent amount onto my list of complaints.

Edited, Mon May 1 14:43:00 2006 by Jophiel

Still trolling? If I need rhetorical ********* Moe, I read a Gbaji post. You're what I read when I want "gruff but loveable".

You are the kind that has such rock-solid preconcieved notions of the way the world is packaged that it would be a waste of both of our times for me to try to change it. I just want a straight answer with none of the intellectual jedi-swords you boys seem to enjoy wielding.

Bless your little heart.

That's why it does me no good to reply with anything but to a comment or question from you, dahling.

Doesn't matter what I think is wrong with it. If someone does have an issue with it, they're likely to transmit that discontent directly onto their perception of the president.

Color me whooshed