I think the polls are misleading I want to know what people really think.
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I cried when he stole the first election & could not believe that US citizen were so uninformed that he was actually elected again.  He has exceeded my expections of his eliteism & sense of entitlement. George Bush has no clue how the "real world" works and has never lived in it.  OUR world is being destroyed while he lives in his own little bubble & listens to dinasours which, I believe, are extinct!?! \nHe will NEVER admit to a mistake if it was slapping him in the face.  I've stopped praying that he will make good decisions & have started praying that the rest of his mistakes won't have the dire consequences he & his followers already created.  In closing, I feel George Bush has a God complex.  He knows what God wants because he feels he IS God.
490989
Fair enough, but I believe that's a two-way street.\n\n(I use the rating system all the time)
303313
Don't listen to them. over 80% of Americans agree with you according to the latest polls.
388244
I agree with most of what you say.  Yes, vote.  However, don't vote with your heart so much as with your mind.  Feelings come and go.  Truth is eternal.
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It is call statistical psychology. If you ask a cross section of 1000 people how they feel about a certain subject, you will be pretty accurate as to the outcome when projected over millions of people. Does it work, I would say yes as long as the polls are not bias. Such as the democratic polls or the repuglican polls. But a independent third party is probably right on the money inside of the level of inaccuracy that is in any poll. I think the biggest failure in the system was the Truman V. Dewey election when it was projected for Dewey to win. As we know it didn't happen.
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I don't really pay attention to either side's nonsense.  Rather I find 3-5 other places that confirm or deny it.  If at least 3 don't agree on what was stated or how, it's probably nonsense.  Or I compare both sides on the same issue and then make up my own opinion.
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I dislike it too.  Turns me off from even voting at all.  Its a disgrace to the whole voting process and what it stands for.  Its a shame that higher people in office can not see this and stop it.  Its not about the people.  Its about getting into office and that's it.  The tactics they use show that.  Mis-leading words and how they arrange them to turn one thing said into something else.  That to me is noting more than a lie and the way they go about pushing all this crap on us by adds and calling us at our personal home phone is ridicules.
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Your opinion is a popular misconception of how our government is formed, and its function.\n\nThe will of the people do not govern much in the US.  You get to vote.  You can write letters and you can try to influence politicians through campaign contributions.\n\nI do think this is an unpopular war, and I do think that message has been sent.
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First thing is first.  A poll does not determine whom the president will be.  Never has and never will.  IF it did, we would still have Clinton in office.  Or Gore, or even Kerry.\n\nPoint is that ANY poll can be fixed to get the result you want based on the questions you ask and the KNOWN makeup of the polling places.\n\nIf I am going to want a poll to show a more democrat's stance, then I would write a poll biased to democrats and poll an area that is loaded with them, such as Chicago, ILL, or San Fransisco, CA.\n\nIf I want something to show more of a republican stance, I would write a poll biased on conservitives and poll known area's that are conservitive, such as Dallas TX, or Tampa Bay, FL.\n\nWhen they where polling for the president in 2001 and in 2004, Bush was to lost by 15% or more, yet he won by 5% in 2001 and 15% in 2005.\n\nI tend to ignore polls because of this and do not tend to like it when they use a poll as news.  It is not news, nor is it a proper way to show people's thought patterns.\n\nA great president will not lead by poll's, but lead by what he feels is right.\nA self centered president (and mostly failed presidents) Lead only by polls and do not do what is right for the people even tho most people do not even know what they want.
638438
Because that's how people do politics most of the time- not that I like it. Also, I think approval ratings had  to do with it.
6864
Shoot man, I coulda told ya that! Go into the Politics section of yahoo answers. Bush has got his spies laying all kinds of questions in there, posing as normal users to find out exactly what people think of Bushy.
31862
Frist I like to say that people are people, and people make misstakes, and 2nd you should never takes on a side of a "party". Some people who like Bush do not think he is perfect[like me]. But people get binded, ther think that if they say that someone that they subport does wrong that there will look like a fool too. No one like to look that way, so we put on a front. That is why peole piont on Clinton so we do not look so bad.
659427
Well Bush, your beliefs are up to you. What exactly do you want to know? It seems like your question is "What should I believe in?", and no one can decide that for you.
522894
To know voters opinion look for public opinion polls and public opinion researches. I'm not an american citizen but I guess that you could find them on-line. I only know a few websites of american political polls but I don't know if they're useful for your paper: \nwww.realclearpolitics.com/\nhttp://www.pollingreport.com/\nThere you can find poll results for 2006 elections and some predictions for 2008. \nReal clear politics have also gathered information from different poll surveys such as those made by NBC, for example.\nFor some theoretical background I recommend you a very good book: \nZaller, John. "The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion". Cambridge, 1992. \nGood luck!
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True,  but dont just blame americans only.  The entire world is ignorant.   In the middle east they listen to Al Jezeera (and CNN).  In China they listen to the "official" state run media (I forget the name, sorry).   Its a worldwide folly.   \n\nBut you know what is worse than that?   Polls.   People take polls as gospel, not realizing that pollsters have their own hidden agendas.   They can manipulate questions and results to make it say what they want it to say.     In all the years on this planet,  not only have I never been polled (on anything political),  but neither have anyone I know.   And when i ask my friends if they know anyone that has been polled, the answer is always no.     I dont trust polls.
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Here's the "official" scoop from one of the Yahoo! Answers team members as posted in the Forum.\n\n"What happened to the Polls and Surveys? "\n\nGuys, the Polls and Surveys category is a very experimental attempt to get a sense of people's interest in "poll"-type questions, and how they'd use the category if we created it. We were both surprised and pleased to see the use that it has gotten, even without promotion.\n\nHaving sampled how people actually would use it, we've pulled the category back into the garage while we do some additional work. We have a few questions for you. All of these assume that Polls and Surveys would be the only place on Answers where poll-type questions would be allowed in the future.\n\n--Do you think that we should have a defined place for poll-type questions, or should they be banned altogether?\n\n--Which would be the most convenient way to organize a Polls and Surveys category: (1) One single, giant Polls category; (2) Reproduce Answers' category structure within a Polls category, or (3) Polls subcategories for every category and subcategory in Answers?\n\n--Would you use a Polls and Surveys category yourself? Would you ask, answer, and/or browse?\n\n--Assuming that the range of poll-type questions is similar to what it is now, is "Polls and Surveys" a good name, or would you suggest another?\n\n\nBy the way, regardless of the Polls and Surveys category, we're working on much more detailed definitions of poll-type questions for the Community Guidelines. You'll see them in a future update.\n\n\n--Matt \n\n[Matt is a member of the Yahoo! Answers team and a co-moderator of the Forum]\n\nhttp://messages.next.yahoo.com/next/threadview?bn=SEA-YahooAnswers&tid=5734&mid=5819
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While this poll is not scientific, so the results will be tainted as it is not a random test, or a cross section,but just for the heck of it put me in the I hate Bush category and lets see if it comes out any where near the scientific polls of 29% to 71%.\n\nI DO NOT SUPPORT GEORGE BUSH.