I'm afraid Bush may have already decided it's time to attack Iran.

I think so too. They are going to roll out the iran attack in what they think of as the best marketing time to win the 2006 elections.

Again we have a poll that has a very small sample in which the political parties of those polled is not revealed.

The Pentagon yesterday described five confirmed incidents of Koran mistreatment at Guantanamo Bay, in which the Muslim holy book was kicked, stepped on, soaked by water balloons, defaced with a scrawled obscenity, and in one recent case accidentally sprayed with urine.

cymro - Okay, keep on believing that people don't vote their party. I mean duhhhhhh.

"It's chaos," said Roger Madaras, who voted twice for Bush. "How many more people are going to be killed? We were going in to free the people of Iraq, but as far as I'm concerned, a lot of them are worse off today than they were under the dictatorship." Madaras, the owner of a plumbing company, said he believed Bush when the president declared major combat to be over in May 2003, and is "disgusted" that Bush's rhetoric was hollow. And he is far from alone. Support for Bush and his handling of Iraq is sharply eroding across the American heartland... This month, the Indianapolis Star released poll findings that Bush's approval rating among Indiana voters stood at 37 percent -- a drop of 18 points over the past year. The numbers echoed national polls, but were particularly shocking in a state that has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, and where Democratic presidential contenders often do not bother to campaign.

If you don't match up with political affiliations, the results are meaningless. The majority will vote their party. And the poll didn't do that.

As for the Koran, I rally don't care what they did to it.

You would think that after Newsweek's huge mistake regarding the Koran story they would leab over backwards to demonstrate accuracy. That they do not speaks ill of them.

but as far as I'm concerned, a lot of them are worse off today than they were under the dictatorship."

If you don't match up with political affiliations, the results are meaningless.

In a scientific breakthrough, mathematicians at the University of Chicago succeeded in creating a new numbering system in order to describe Bush's low popularity among Americans. "In each CBS poll, Bush's popularity goes down more and more," said Jacques Fransisco, Professor of Mathematics. "Eventually, negative numbers, and even imaginary numbers, could not go low enough to describe his waning popularity." In most CBS polls, they lowered the response of registered Republicans to 27% or less, to reflect the true values and "face" of America. This is because, even though in elections the vote has been split 50/50 in the past few years, in reality most people are Progressive in their hearts, and the Democrats just have to get their message out, and get the voters out. "The problem with Bush," said Katie Couric, "is that his popularity is not only low, it is negative. It is worse than negative. It is like a vacuum that sucks out the popularity of everyone around him. So merely true-weighting the response of Republicans was not enough. We had to go to the experts: the math nerds."

No, you aren't trying to help anyone, and you certainly aren't helping yourself by demonstrating an inability to understand a few basic things.

Results are weighted so that the sample demographics match Census Current Population Survey parameters for gender, age, education, race, region, and population density.

As for questioning intelligence, etc. Check out Ms Molly NYC's. She can give, I hope she can take.

The president last week took to the stump to plead with Americans about the necessity for resolve in Iraq. But a tour through congressional districts of California's Inland Empire and northern San Diego County -- Republican-dominated districts that have voted twice for the president -- found surprisingly strong doubts about the president and his war policies. While many conservative voters who spoke with The Chronicle remain supportive of America's military men and women, an increasing number are disillusioned with the nation's leader. And from the VFW halls to the local cafes, an increasing number in the region are expressing a profound concern about the human and financial costs of the continued Iraq conflict. Oceanside's homes and businesses support the 60,000 military personnel and civilians who work at Camp Pendleton, home to the I Marine Expeditionary Force and the 1st Marine Division. At GI Joe's Military Surplus, just up the street from Dalbey's barbershop, owner Robert Anderson shares the pessimistic sentiments about the war. Another self-described conservative Republican who voted for Bush twice, Anderson is a military booster who sells "camo" pants and offers uniform dry cleaning for his Marine clientele. He shakes his head when asked about Iraq. "We've done what we needed to do,'' he said. "We could spend 10 years there and get the same thing. ... It doesn't matter, it won't change. These guys have been fighting each other for generations, and they're going to hate us no matter what.'''

you want to argue "statistics" by making claims that methodolgy doesn't affect polling results. Nonsense.