Approval ratings are not necessarily the best way to gauge actual approval... i say this because i have seen - in the last month - Approval ratings for the current admin run anywhere from 35% to nearly 60% just depending on where you look for the data.
the problem is - were YOU polled?
no
you probably weren't. these approval ratings are based off an arbitrary random dialing of 1,000 people and then just estimating that everyone in the nation would fall in line with the same approval : disapproval ratio as the 1,000 people who were polled on that given day.
so when you see that George W. Bush had a national presidential approval rating of say... 40% at any given moment - its the approval rating that 1,000 random people produced at that given moment.
there are what? 300,000,000 people in the United States give or take?
presidential approval ratings are bogus IMHO and are only the "best guess" product of a firm like Gallup.
sarcastically speaking, more work is put into surveying people for answers on "Family Feud".
Survey Says?
its hard to put your fingers upon the pulse of the Nation, especially a nation like the United States of America where the populace is made up of such a diverse, multicultural, multi-ethnic, multilingual, and multi-socioeconomic sampling like we are.
There are those who followed Bush to his political grave, there will be those who will stand by their guy B.O. until the day they line the streets to kis his ass and give him a saintly send off as being the first black president ever to grace the nation. (even though he has about as much in common with American Blacks as White people have in common with polar bears)
I think, in the past here at subsim i have made my opinion of the guy pretty clear, to the point that i literally had to make a post promising to severely limit my participation in politics here in GT. Thats a promise i have held up for years now. Only popping my head in for one or two posts and then excusing myself permanently from the conversation... Most of what i have to say about the current president would probably put me on the news or something. So i will just say that Politics in America has devolved to a point of drawing a line in the sand.
I know Democrat families who wont let their kids play with children from Republican families (and vicey versey)
I have had people become angry and i have had people become elated at the fact that i have a Gadsden Flag and an AR-15 bumper sticker on my truck.
I have lived to a point in my life where i have seen more division in the ranks of my countryman than i ever thought possible.
I have come to a point in time where we have our masters in Washington dominating every intricate detail of our lives with legislation which applies to all but those shouting underneath the domed capital chamber.
Every day we part with a little bigger piece of our rights, every day we accept, we surrender, we cow down to the concept that the men on the hill know how to better run our lives than we do. And so long as the right that is being stripped is not a right you use often or put little value on... its not a big deal to you in particular.
We have come to a point im America where we are encouraged by the government to report our neighbors to the authorities for owning firearms that hold more than 7 rounds.
Not long ago, my grandfather, and many of your grandfathers fought against those who would have you "
do your patriotic duty and report your neighbor to the NSDAP for hiding the Jewish rats"
in the end, millions upon millions of people died for
that little slice of security. and what have we really learned?
do i blame the current president for this? i hold him responsible, and those who came before him responsible for
enabling it.
but the blame? the true people who should be subjected to approval ratings, and blame and responsibility?
the people
because for every single one of you and i who sincerely care about the state of the nation... there are a hundred thousand people who just want to go to starbucks, watch TV, strip themselves of all responsibility and let the men upon the hill do the thinking for them.
personally, I'm disgusted by all of it. And i think we have to try and take back what generations of good men have left for us before it is completely gone.