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DEL.ICIO.USA graph that says it all
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sometimes things don’t click until you turn a chart or a map sideways or upside down. A great current example is this graph, which simply turns the index of gas prices upside down, so that expensive is down and cheap is up, and tracks it with President Bush’s poll numbers.
This graph also has the virtue of confirming our own biases about what’s really driving Bush’s dismal numbers. The big question is whether public dismay over oil prices has any impact on elections this year.
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By LW
April 24, 2006 09:25 PM | Link to this
Okay, I think I understand the graph - the higher the price of gas the lower Bu$h’s poll numbers. I think that there is a lot more than gas prices hurting those numbers - incompetnce in Iraq, incompetence in handling the aftermath of Katrina, incompetence in setting up the new Medicare drug system, a deficit that is totally out of control, corruption among administration members and among the GOP members of Congress.
But, not everything Bu$h & the GOP Congress has done has been mishandled. That “Do Not Call” list thing went pretty well.
Today, CNN has Bu$hCo at 32%; yesterday Faux News’ poll had them at 33%! Shuffling a few administration flunkies around isn’t going to save this trainwreck.
By ILL-logical
April 24, 2006 09:26 PM | Link to this
What gets my goat is that the Republicans are robbing the bank and the Democrats are driving the get away car.
By Buzz Brockway
April 25, 2006 11:12 AM | Link to this
I heard about this graph on the Rush Limbaugh show. Glad to find out Galloway and Baxter are fellow “dittoheads.” :-)