September 14, 2007

Rudy Gets Cheery News From Fox

Fox has just published its latest poll, conducted during the testimony of General David Petraeus, and it provides some encouragement to the Republicans. George Bush’s approval ratings have bounced back from their nadir during the immigration debate, but still remain rather dreadful. He still beats Congressional job approval ratings from voters of both parties. Bush has a 37% approval rating, up from 31% in June. Voters in both parties ranked Congress below that -- 34% among Democrats and 35% among Republicans.

At Heading Right, I analyze the rest of the poll. The Democrats seem to have successfully painted General David Petraeus as an administration hack, although a plurality believe that the situation in Iraq has improved. Rudy Giuliani increased his lead among Republicans while Fred Thompson scored a post-announcement bump, and Hillary Clinton still has major negatives which could portend disaster for the Democrats in 2008.

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Posted by NoDonkey | September 14, 2007 1:21 PM

Disaster for the Democrats portends brighter days for America.

Conversely, Democrat success on legislation or elections, always portend darker days for this country.

When will Americans start completely reject the absolutely worthless Democrat Party?

Posted by Athingortwo | September 14, 2007 2:30 PM

I think the Cap'n mischaracterized the poll results somewhat, when it comes to Petraeus. He says "The Democrats seem to have successfully painted General David Petraeus as an administration hack".

The FoxNews poll said that 40% of Americans have that view of Petraeus, while 35% don't, and 25% don't know. The 40% number is basically the Dem percentage of the population, so they've really only convinced themselves of their own line on Petraeus. On the other hand, 60% aren't of like mind. Given that the poll results were published yesterday, they probably don't reflect a full consideration of the Petraeus testimony yet. Give it another week, let the Giuliani counter-ad to the MoveOn smear have its effect, and I would suspect that a fair number of the "don't knows" will soon report a favorable impression.

Posted by dhunter | September 14, 2007 3:14 PM

Way to go Rudi poll numbers up because he's showing some balls and taking on her thighness.


By the way like Rush said today Move-On.orgasm is a Hillery organ set up by Herself and funded by billionares.
Poll numbers will go up for those willing to show the Traitorious Rats for who they are even though they are doing a pretty good job of it themselves.
They never ran on surrender that is not why they were elected, they ran on a better idea, a new direction, they didn't say it was their idea to lose the war , but W. has said he intends to win it. The poll numbers will go up for those who chose to win.
By the way Gingrich either get in the race or shut the hell up. Your nothin but a small little pimp sitting on the sidelines squakin otherwise.

Posted by Okonkolo | September 14, 2007 4:17 PM

Cheery news from Fox (the only network not to run the Democratic response to the President's speech). That kind of says it all. A poll during testimony is notoriously short-lived. Better to see how things shake out over the next week or two. The White House released a rather gloomy Iraq report today (some of the "some progress" claims are based upon "minimal progress"), and Sunni ally Abdul Sattar Rishawi was buried today, long term effects of these hard to predict, but neither will give the President/Petreaus a boost.

Rudy could use some good news as Fred has put a dent in the front, though I am not sure how long that will last. What did you all make of Fred having no opinion of the Terri Schiavo incident, claiming he couldn't recall the details?

Posted by patrick neid | September 14, 2007 4:43 PM

go rudy......

Posted by KW64 | September 14, 2007 8:39 PM

Okonkolo says:Cheery news from Fox (the only network not to run the Democratic response to the President's speech). That kind of says it all.
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I watched the Democratic Response by Reed on Fox, I even have it on tape.

Posted by Christoph | September 14, 2007 9:40 PM

The Democrats seem to have successfully painted General David Petraeus as an administration hack

Your generals need to take a lesson from history and do some of their own PR.

My God, do you think Julius Caesar, George Patton, or Bernard Montgomery for that matter would let their governments define them? They defined themselves.

Posted by pacatrue | September 15, 2007 5:34 AM

Congressional approval ratings are an interesting beast. The main quandry is that while ratings of Congress as a whole can be at 30%, the large majority of individual members of Congress probably have much, much better support from their own consituents. It's not clear what the group rating means in the end. It doesn't seem to be a strong indicator of any actual voting behavior.

Posted by exDemo | September 15, 2007 1:39 PM

I long for the time that I can return to my Party. But it is still controlled by the Marxist thought police, who stole it in 1968 and 1972 and have kept it ever since.

It's too bad that millions of good Democrats will probably die in the NYC and LA nuclear bombings that their nominal Representatives should be seeking to oppose. But they are not, for minor and ephemeral poll ratings.

They don't even want to protect or to remember the four thousand or so civilians, who were murdered in one of their strongholds. Based onut voting patterns, about 80% of whom were Democrats. If they don't care about 3000 dead Democrats, what makes you think they would give a damn about 30,000, 300,000 or 30,000,000 million more?

It was often said derisively of politicians that they would sell thier mothers for a vote. Here are 3000 cases of evidence that this is so for this bunch of elitist, elected, leftist losers, who hide as wolves in sheep's clothing, under the name of "Democrat".

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