How is it a dead heat?

Question

according to fox, bush's approval rating is 28%, 80% of the public believe that the administration has taken the country in the wrong direction, and 60% of people believe the war in iraq was a mistake. taking all this into account with the economical situation we have. why on earth are the polls so even. the democrats are the obvious choice to turn this country around if not fix it. is the us public really that naive and status quo?

Answer 1

Democrats run on a platform that says government can fix everyone's problems.  Republicans claim government can't fix everyone's problems and then get elected and prove it.

Answer 2

Polls are BS.

Fox polls are notoriously slanted.

Answer 3

Everything you said was correct until "the democrats are the obvious choice to turn this country around".  Pelosi's approval rating is worse than Bush's.

I think people are disgusted with the dinosaurs of each party.  They want a change on both sides.  That's why Obama got the nomination for the Dems "Hope and Change".  That's why McCain got the nomination for the GOP "The Original Maverick".  Both of these candidates would shake things up, and people see that.  That's why it's a dead heat.  If you're a conservative and you want change, you vote McCain.  If you're a liberal and you want change, you vote Obama.

And one thing we've learned the past 16 years or so is that the country is evenly split between conservative and liberal.

Answer 4

I don't know if it is the majority of Americans, and I know things are different in liberal states like New York, but it seems everyone I speak to has the same underlying beliefs but is scared to say it out loud.

It is just wrong for a black man to be anywhere other than beneath the white man. And if my experience is anything to go by there are MILLIONS of Americans who think the same as me.

I don't want a black leading my country any more than I want my pet dog leading my household.

Answer 5

Because democrats have never had the support that they claim.  

Answer 6

John Mccain's brain is on fire.

Is that heat dead enough?

There are three things at play that make his poll seem semi-boyant.

1. Georgia [We are drooling for John to growl and flex his muscles. It's a weird fetish, don't ask me to explain further.]

2. Barking at the heathens. John is getting real good at riding saddleback (or brokeback) and growling at the heathens. Core repeilicans are finding this delicious.

3. Most of the people who are answering the polls at this point have been slanted to the old-folks side.

A lot of the younger voters are walking around with cell phones and polsters don't know how to poll that, but only about 1 in 20 people who report polls knows enough and actually has the decency to tell you this. News organizations don't make money as well by giving you polls and telling you they are 15% or more innacurate. They already had to tell you all their primary season polls were garbage.

As far as polling younger people and cell phones. They are walking around chatting it up "where you at?" simply way off the grid.

If you think young people are going to vote more for McCain than Obama, then yes, it is a dead heat election.

Nobody wants to drain their cell phone battery answering some long poll. Not to mention younger people don't want to spend time answering a full poll anyway.

The real worthwhile calculation is people who try to guage how many young voters are actually going to vote. And the people who try to study it always admit it is extreemly difficult and would change week to week anyway but whatever means they use to measure and make fancy calculations is worth it. Even pure guesses are worth it. Because there are a lot of young voters who can vote (and just as easily forget to vote) and no one has a clue how to factor them in.

It's like trying to get a cat to sit still for a photograph while there is a mouse running around a room.

Answer 7

No, it's that the Democrats are communists. A bad republican is still better than any Democrat.

Answer 8

No, your candidate is just that bad. I don't feel like making another ten page report showing why, so just look for my question posted a little bit ago. It's a dead heat because everyone can see that the change your party is pushing for is not a good change, but a Marxist change.

Besides, you forgot to mention that it's actually 33%, and Nancy Pelosi's approval rating is 11%, 1/3 of Bush's. It looks like your party has an even lower approval rating than mine.

Answer 9

According to a LIEberal news media.  Now that's an OXYMORON.  You should know by now that there's nothing the LIEberal media says that's worth a d**n and anyont that actually believes them is more of a fool than I thought possible.  Don't forget, it was the LIEberal media that had Gore and Kerry winning their elections by 10 points.

McCain IS our new president.

Answer 10

I am more for Obama, but McCain is a different person of character than Bush.  People respect him more, more moderate.  Like his conviction, independent personality.  Also longer history of experience than Bush.

Answer 11

obama must not be all he says he is the American people are not stupid or naive. they just don't like him but then again the democrat led congress has a 9% aproval rating maybe that has something to do with it,