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 Posted: 08/08/04 - 14:33 Post subject: George Bush approval rating versus terror
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Posted by Julius Civitatus
There are few things that are quite evident from the chart:
- Whenever his ratings dip, there's a new terror alert.
- Every terror alert is followed by a slight uptick of Bush approval ratings.
- Whenever there are many unfavorable headlines, there's another alert or announcement (distraction effect).
- As we approach the 2004 elections, the number and frequency of terror alerts keeps growing, to the point that they collapse in the graphic. At the same time, Bush ratings are lower than ever.
Update: for the record, we are not claiming that all these alerts are politically motivated. We are sure a considerable amount of these alerts were legit and caused by real and immediate information of potential threats. What is important to note is that many of these "immediate" terror alerts were later on discredited (in some cases they used old data, in other cases the announcements were less immediate and less urgent that we were lead to believe, as the press reported.) Those are the cases that could be interpreted as politically motivated, especially when they seemed to coincide with political news and events unfavorable to the administration.
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Paco
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Posted: 08/08/04 - 14:42 Post subject:
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Vengar_OO
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Posted: 08/08/04 - 16:36 Post subject: -==-
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And yet people b***h that we didn't do enough to prevent 9/11, or blamed it all on Bush.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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Frax
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Fuck yoiu fucking fuckers
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Posted: 08/08/04 - 16:49 Post subject:
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Vengar shhh everyone knows the President always knows what is coming and how to stop it in time to save the world! Oh wait thats just what John Kerry is gonna do 
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Posted: 08/08/04 - 17:32 Post subject: Re: -==-
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| Vengar_OO wrote: | And yet people b***h that we didn't do enough to prevent 9/11, or blamed it all on Bush.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. |
Yes they can, they are scumbags.
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Luturb
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Posted: 08/08/04 - 18:00 Post subject:
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Two thumbs up for this post.
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Confused
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Posted: 08/08/04 - 18:48 Post subject:
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I love how leftists are so concerned about the Bush administration issuing terror alerts. Even Howard Dean, the leftists darling and Almost-Democratic-Candidate, called the latest warning "politically motivated". It's scary how the left is willing to put thousands of American lives on the line for political gain.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8.htm
Yes, even the left-leaning Time magazine is about to report the actual severity of our situation, but leftists would rather Bush not issue an alert and have thousands of people die. I don't know how you people can look in the mirror.
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Obmar
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Posted: 08/09/04 - 13:13 Post subject:
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/yawn
wrong
but i'm too lazy to even bother pointing out the obviousness of why
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