Why is dubya's approval rating still so high?

[wizdum]

How could 31% of Americans be so stupid? Single digits is more like it, and impeachment is the only way to trim this bush. Why is it taking so long for so many to catch on? H-E-L-L-O!-!-!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

1. Faux News and mega-churches.

How low did Nixon go? 27% or so? Close to a third of the country is "gone" and always will be, I suppose. Or that same number desperately wants to have faith in its Prezident, no matter what.

[napi21]

2. There will always be some diehard supporters.

In all fairness, there were more diehard Clinton supporters when he was enduring the impeachment BS. Is it 31%, who knows. Almost all polls have a +/- of at least 3%. But you're always going to have some, for a lot of different reasons, who will support him no matter what!

Hll, look at the number of people who still say Nixon was a great Prez! e even admitted to a lot of the things he did wrong, and they still support him...after 30+ years!!!!

[Union Thug]

3. The corporate elite and the hillbilly-medievalists combine to

make 31%

[rpannier]

4. Let see

Gawwwwwwd. George Duh..bya is a man of Gawwwwwwwd.
He's a straight shooter -- By that I mean he's never shot his friend in the face.
He doesn't waver or flip-flop. He only changes his mind on insignificant things and on important
things he drives the car over a cliff.
He does what he says. He said he'd capture Osama dead or alive and he did. We caught Sadaam Hussein.
Okay so it's not Osama, but it is an Arab guy. I heard that last week we did
kill Osama bin Laden's fourth grade classmate -- so we're getting closer.
They're polling in State Mental Hospitals now as well. Scrub's got some high numbers among the
members of the Psychotically Demented Ward.
And Lastly...
Those billionaires that have invested in the military technology sector are doing well. As are people who invested in oil.

[wizdum]

6. Gawwwwwwd. George Duh..bya is a man of Gawwwwwwwd.

LMAO

You're pretty funny!

[NativeTexan]

5. Basic right-wing.......

.......one issue extremists!! "If you say your against abortion, no matter how many you've had to pay for to keep your mistress from going to the tabloids, then you are our guy!!!"

[Erika]

7. They can't face the fact they destroyed our country

through their votes for W. I think they know it in in their hearts. W did a shock and awe thing on a population that never caused us harm, he's wasted the lives of our troops. www.icasualties.org

He's cut services for the poor and helped the rich. He's hurt our standing as moral leaders in the world. He really does not like women's rights. He's slapped women hard and often when it comes to even obtaining birth control.

This man is no one likable, except by the bushbots.

[ediedidcare]

8. oxycontin

you know - hillbilly heroin
actually I take it back. We have seen more movement away from Bush
from " rural white working class" then we could have ever imagined.

[Golden Raisin]

9. The die hards

o against gays & (shudder) gay marriage
o against abortion
o for blonde, blue-eyed, English-speaking Jesus
o mainstream media raking in bucks
o for building a wall along the Mexican border
o big corporations/lobbyists raking in bucks
o fascists
o big oil
o Halliburton and other defense/military contractors
o people who "think" (bad choice of words) that the office of the Presidency deserves respect NO MATTER WHAT
o people who "think" that if you say anything against the war you're a traitor who doesn't
"support the troops"
o Fans/followers of Coulter, Robertson, Phelps, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Malkin, Dobson, etal.

There are plenty of profiles that add up to a third of Americans who think Bush and his fascist regime are just swell.

[Lexingtonian]

10. Morons need a champion

and Bush is carrying the field....

Okay, maybe that's going just a little too far.... No, there simply are 24% "diehard conservatives" who would rather live in Denial and in the Past than in the world as it really is. They give up on a champion when they realize he lied to them about turning back the clock and restoring their Paradise.

Another 8% are classical Rightists just worship power and immoral uses of power, which covers and justifies their own abuses and vanity- but they hate powerlessness and losers, especially flailing ones. Integrity they hate inherently because it's out of their reach, so hypocrisy and lying are what they practice and excuse if it serves them.

[radfringe]

11. link to poll averages

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

President Bush Job ApprovalPoll Date Approve Disapprove Spread
RCP Average 05/01 - 05/08 34.7% 60.3% -25.6%

CBS News/NY Times 05/04 - 05/08 31% 63% -32%
CNN 05/05 - 05/07 34% 58% -24%
USA Today/Gallup 05/05 - 05/07 31% 65% -34%
Rasmussen 05/05 - 05/07 41% 58% -17%
FOX News 05/02 - 05/03 38% 53% -15%
AP-Ipsos 05/01 - 05/03 33% 65% -32%

Rasmussen/Fox numbers skew the average... but the other recent ones are in the same ballpark if you take the +/- 3-4% into consideration

[darkmaestro019]

12. paraphrasing da Vinci: there are three kinds of people

Those who know, those who can be taught, and those who will never know. I suspect he's dead-on right, and that we'd NEVER see any lower than twenty-ish because that approximate third so eloquently referred to as backwash just will not be moved.

[riona]

13. That's it in a capsule

[bdamomma]

14. who are these dumb ass people

they are giving us a bad name. 31% open your eyes and ears.