Bush sinking among undecideds...

[edbermac]

Bush Ratings Drop Among Uncommitted Voters, Annenberg Poll Says
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's approval rating declined to 44 percent from 56 percent among undecided voters since the Republican National Convention, a poll by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center found.

Bush, 58, leads Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry in polls after the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 convention. His favorable ratings on key issues in the Annenberg poll fell among voters who haven't decided whom to support or who aren't committed to a candidate.


http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=afIZr_m0SVMA&refer=us


FYI...

:kick:

[cthrumatrix]

1. CNN explains that as...a....a...a..a.... wait we have these CBS docs!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. And the GOP is asking for a congresional investigation

DISTRACT!

[ItsMyParty]

3. Do you feel like you are on a roller coaster ride and are about

ready to hurl?? Numbers..numbers....all the numbers. Now damnit if this much of a shift has taken place after people sobered up from the NYC hate party, then why isn't Kerry ahead in all the various national polls and definitely in these swing state polls. I just don't get it. I think this is wonderful news and I do hope it's just that this dive hasn't yet caught up in the other polls.

[cthrumatrix]

4. the repug machine and the media whores are freaking...the PUBLIC is not

buying thier shit.

The polls are coming back slowly...Kerry is has a message that is real and the repug pollsters can 't spin anyomre than they are.

They have ZERO.

[lancdem]

7. In the past couple of days, most national polls show the race very tight

with the exception of ICR. State polls tend to be a lagging indicator, I think. Even so, they seem to be mixed: Good news in Minnesota and Michigan and not-so-good news in Florida and Wisconsin. Traditionally, bounces tend to fade after two weeks, and we're not quite that far past the RNC.

[MallRat]

5. You see? We told y'all not to panic.

:bounce:

[lancdem]

6. It has Bush's approval rating at 52 percent

which is actually a point lower than it was in August. Keep in mind, the Annenberg survey tends to have Bush's ratings several points higher than other polls.

[hughee99]

8. One thing I hate about these "undecided" polls

is that they usually don't reference the size of the "undecided" pool. For example, lets say that this happens...

August # of undecided voters 10 million
* approval rating among them - 56%

September # of undecided voters 7 million
* approval rating among them - 44%

The reason that this number can mislead people is that the pool can change easily. If (in this example) 3 million people moved from "undecided" to decided voters, then the change in the percentage from 56 to 44 may reflect not a change in voters opinions, but reflect 3 million people who are now "decided" * voters. Now obviously my example is an extreme case, but I tend not to trust these numbers, and I hope this doesn't cause any of us to become overconfident and lose our energy before the election.