50% again
December 23, 2005
Pollster Scott Rasmussen has just delivered a massive lump of coal to all true-believing Democrats. According to Rasmussen, President Bush is back to 50% approval.
The most astonishing part of this recovery of 14 points in just a few weeks, which is probably unprecedented, is that it didn't even require unexpected and dramatic events in the real world. The economy is pumping on all 8, but it was already when Bush was at 36%. The war is being won, as evidenced by the incredible success in the recent elections, and the just-announced drawdown of 7000 troops, the first of many, no doubt; but this, too, is pretty much exactly what was expected several weeks ago. Did any Democrat declare that the upcoming election, when it was still upcoming, would be a disaster? Nobody had the nerve, after the last 2. As to troops coming home, the notorious Congressman Murtha himself declared that troops would certainly be coming home after the election, since Bush had always said that, as the Iraqis stood up, we would stand down. That's why he spoke up in the first place: to get HIS name associated with it all somehow.
It didn't even require Bush's opponents suffering a dramatic and obvious meltdown. That, too, was already going on when Bush was in the mid 30s.
No. Nothing has changed in the real world. Nothing has changed with the other party. The only thing that is different is that people have been hearing the Bush case, for a change.
What does all this mean? Well, for one thing, it means that Bush's case sells well and quickly, when it is put out there. It means that the evidence backs him up, and when it is put in peoples' faces, they see it.
Unfortunately, it also suggests that a great many people can be quite easily demoralized into believing that everything is going to hell, even when they know better, if that is all they hear.
We can only hope that it will also mean that Republicans everywhere will finally learn that, no matter how well everything is going, the opposition, backed by a united, anti-American press, still has to be answered. Loudly and often.
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