fuck zogby

* zogby has a new poll out. they didnt ask the impeachment question again. fuckers. and they still havent answered my email about when they will ask it. his job approval has fallen 10% since the start of august to 41 (thanks, cindy) - as lways, the headline figures mask the *terrible internals. zogby has a four-point scale - Excellent Good Fair Poor - the 'excellent' category is down by 20%, and the worst category 'poor' is up by 32%.

* more zogby: "Voters Disapprove Handling of All But War on Terror... Significantly, though, the President’s signature issue has actually improved marginally, with a 52% majority continuing to approve of his handling of the War on Terror, up one point from a month ago."
firstly - how funny/appropriate is it that the only thing that people approve of with this egadministration is TWOT - which is a complete fabrication. secondly, im not sure that anyone but the Fuckwit500 club actually agree that TWOT is blinky's "signature issue". thirdly - fuck zogby for saying "significantly" - theres nothing significant about a 1% move - the SOE is 2.9% - what zogby is saying is 'nothing has changed in the war on terror, and blinkys ratings havent changed on the war on terror - and that is significant'

* more zogby: " President Bush would lose to every modern president since Jimmy Carter" - ya know - ive been familiar with the english language all my life - and i can pretty much guarantee that this sentence is misleading (and this is in the headline of zogby's report). reading that sentence, any sentient person would think that either a) blinky is more popular than carter, or b) the poll only asked about presidents since carter. wrong. they asked about carter, and even fucking jimmy carter beat blinky 50-42. even fucking jimmy carter!
the internals, again, are fucking scary tho. how can americans be so stupid? (its rhetorical!)
Bush 44 Clinton 46
Bush 34 Bush (ghwb) 41
Bush 20 Reagan 59
Bush 42 Carter 50
Bush 48 Kerry 47

you have to take those numbers with a grain of salt - becuase they dont add up to anything near 100 - and they are all over the place - eg bush vs bush only adds up to 75. the only uber- landslide there is against a dead president.

* more zogby: "Among those holding a negative view of the government response, President Bush bears the brunt of public criticism, with one-in-four (27%) voters saying he most deserves the blame for inadequate government response. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown comes in next in overall criticism, with 22% blaming him."
lol - imagine being 5% points worse than brownie!!!

* more zogby: "However, the combined total blaming Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco (15%) and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (8%), the senior state and local officials, respectively, is slightly higher than those blaming Brown, with 23% placing the blame on the two Louisiana figures. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, meanwhile, comes in at 8%, while 9% blame other government officials."
wtf? why is he adding blanco and nagin together and then comparing them to brownie? fucker. what is the relevance of that??? why doesnt he add blinky and blinky's hack crony appointees together - 27+22+8= 57%!

* more zogby: "It is worth noting that among the one-in-three voters who have a favorable view of the government response, an overwhelming 40% credit the president, while 16% credit Brown, 12% credit Blanco, 6% credit Nagin, and 7% credit Chertoff."
fuck you zogby. an 'overwhelming' percentage of an underwhelming percentage people who like the govt also like the president. fuck off.