Bash: Bush "very, very popular" in Montana
On the January 10 edition of CNN Newsroom, CNN congressional correspondent Dana Bash, discussing senators who have recently expressed opposition to President Bush's expected proposal to increase troop levels in Iraq, baselessly asserted that "the president is still very, very popular" in the "red state" of Montana. In fact, the latest Survey USA tracking poll for Montana, conducted November 9-11, 2006, reported that 45 percent of Montana respondents approved of "the job" Bush "is doing as president" and 51 percent disapproved (with a +/- 4.1-percent margin of error). In Survey USA's November polls, Bush had a higher approval rating than disapproval rating in only Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Prior to the November 2006 elections, Media Matters for America documented a pattern in the media of falsely characterizing states that Bush won in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as "pro-Bush" states currently.
From the January 10 edition of CNN's CNN Newsroom:
BASH: Another thing that happened just a short while ago. A Democrat from a red state, from the state of Montana, Senator Max Baucus, comes from a state where the president is still very, very popular. Senator Baucus has not really said much at all about any kind of opposition to the war, anything much since he voted for the war almost four years ago. He came out again just a short while ago and said that he now regrets his vote for the war in Iraq, thinks it is a mistake, and he too opposes the president's plan.
doesn't NEED actual polls, people!! She is just talking about the general FEELINGS of people in Montana...sheesh, you have to know how to read between the lines, folks, as apparently Ms. Bash does....
is trending left, like many of the western states. Screw the south, let the righties have it. Nuthin but cornbread smokin, jug humpin, inbreds ennyhows.
Howard Dean wouldn't agree. Fifty state strategy in play brought home the goods.
Austin, Atlanta, Miami... New Orleans fergoodnessake?
I'm not for throwing the South under the bus. Lotta good people down there. And it's a hell of a lot less bigoted than the Northeast, IMO.
I'm just having fun. I'm a Tennessee Democrat (seriously) who just moved to North Carolina. Fryin pan into the fire. At least Chapel Hill is pretty progressive. Must be all them perfessers down to the college. Carrboro (next town, shared border) is downright eat up with artsy-fartsy left-wing loonies. I love'em.
I agree with the Dean strategy. I believe it was instrumental in our recent electoral success, but right now, many pragmatic western states are more ripe for the pickin, as they say. As I heard a recent Al Franken guest say, when we're sitting around waiting to call Alabama for the Dems, it's going to be a discussion over whether we win 49 or 50 states. Western states represent our best hope for more electoral success.
I'm a German who moved to Sturbridge, Massachussets in 7th grade (in 12th now). Each time I feel that some people are just a little too right-leaning, I thank the gods I landed in MA and not, say, any other state. I'd get lynched in days... Where I come from and will eventually return, people like Hannity or Savage would get kicked out in an eyeblink. Their **** just wouldn't be accepted. Some of these pundit's behave like carricatures right out of South Park... Anyway, this is how liberal CNN can be, I guess. Funny, a few days ago, I had "The Republican Noise Machine" with me during lunch and a fellow student pointed at the cover, laughed and said "Are you kidding? You're not saying that CNN is conservative, right. Did you see last night, Dan Rather was on with some feminazis?" and so on. BTW, can anyone tell me what the f*** exactly feminazis are supposed to be?? Not being privy to US conventional wisdom, the term strikes me as a little odd. What could they possibly be asking for that would warrant comparison to the guys who gased and burned the bodies of six million people, never mind starting the bloodiest conflict in world history? Do they want to outlaw porn? Castrate all men? Or send us to reeducation camps? Refuse to marry or have kids? I can't think of anything, so someone please help me out...
I don't know about all that. The South is less bigoted than the NE? Truly bigots can be found everywhere, although segregation and thus bigotry is actually apart of that rich Southern heritage the Lotts and the like are always defending. That said I don't think any region should be ignored, The Progressives just have to keep making common sense appeals and we have to produce positive results when we get the opportunity to .
Bash is so eager to spin the right-wing narrative that she probably says garbage like this reflexively.
She's got her little Red State - Blue State reality all worked out in her little mind.
if you ask me.
45% is not too bad. It beats his national numbers which if memory serves me right around 30%. Plus or minus a few percentages. I'll bet Cheney wish he had that kind of approval rating.
think it's down in the 20's now. There has always been a different measure for GW , the bar is always set so low. So I guess 45% compared to 25% sounds pretty good to Bash.
Reminds me of the Tom Waits song "Big in Japan."
is a God in France.
David Hasselhoff in Germany....
Bush has a 99% approval rating in Hell
That's a good 'un.
Firehogs?
the 1% are the people he executed in Texas. I'm sure they're holding a grudge down there waiting for him to arrive.
that's why they elected Jon Tester to the Senate.
[link to www.ontheissues.org]Unlike Bash, I happen to actually live in Montana. Bush is not very, very popular in Montana and neither is his war. Apparently Bash doesn't realize that Conrad Burns lost his spot in the Senate eventhough Bush personally campaigned for him, as did Cheney. Burns spent millions more than Tester, yet the guy who said he was against W.'s war won. I also read the newspapers in Montana, as opposed to Bash. Almost all of the letters to the Editors are virulently anti Bush and anti War. Montana voted for Bush in 2004, but right now he couldn't get elected dogcatcher in the most conservative county in the State, as evidenced by the poll data.
doesn't look at the polls. They just make up their own.
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From our polling division, Montanans don't think bush sucks quite as bad as the rest of the country.. Our research attributes this to the prevalence of cranks living in rural cabins writing 80-page manifestos on the evils of rust. Also, it can be pointed out, a significant percentage of voters thought Conrad Burns was an "honest, thoughtful man."
That Baucus has come the closest to an actual "sacrifice" among our leaders? His nephew was killed while serving in Iraq.
Nope Baucus is just some partisan loony left democrat going against the wishes of his red state constituents.
Bush still has strong approval ratings in Munich and some parts of the Rhineland although polls are showing some slippage in Stalingrad.
Bush is not popular in ANY part of Germany. If that were the case, I'd consider suicide...