Snap shots via poll

Some poll information to mull over:

From D-3 Systems poll paid for by BBC, ABC, USA Today, ARD Germany TV [no right-wing folks here]:

Q. 5: Do you think your children will have a better life than you, worse, or about the same?


Better: 42%
Worse: 37%
Same: 21%
N/R: 0%

The poll in full - HERE

A quick summary: jobs, water and electricity are worse than the last two years. On security, things seem the same or better, 17% (I recall) think worse. 2007 shows a slip on positive items, which is understandable. I quoted the above numbers as I think that question is the one people would have to contemplate and the results would, to me, at least, have powerful meaning.

UPI Poll: Bush, Congress poor on Iraq

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush fared poorly among respondents to a UPI-Zogby International poll regarding Iraq but not as badly as the U.S. Congress.

Fully 96 percent of those asked said the Democratic Party-controlled Congress was either poor (71.3 percent) or fair (24.7 percent) on handling the war in Iraq. Some 2.5 percent said the legislators were "good" and 0.3 percent rated them "excellent."

Fully 96 percent of those asked said the Democratic Party-controlled Congress was either poor (71.3 percent) or fair (24.7 percent)

Bush's ratings nearly glow by comparison but were also low with 55.2 percent giving the Republican president a "poor" grade on Iraq and 15.8 percent rating him "fair." He was seen as "good" on Iraq by 21.8 percent of respondents and "excellent" by 6.6 percent.

A slim plurality -- not far outside the poll's 1.2 percentage-point margin of error -- said they had more confidence in the Republican Party to deal with Iraq. While 41.2 percent gave the GOP as an answer, 38 percent said the Democrats and 19.1 percent said "neither."

The Zogby interactive poll was conducted Sept. 7-10 with 7,081 U.S. residents responding.

Of course, only fools and despots run foreign policy based upon poll results, but it is important to get a sense as to what people are seeing on the ground via polls. There is a feed-back loop, but polls should not be justification to act or pander to voters.

No one can seriously think a Democratic president will pull the troops out of Iraq, so I am not a fan of the posturing (aka lying) during this election cycle designed to persuade independents and "idiota." [Ancient Greek term for citizens who don't participate in politics.]

Recall my recent entry about Congress, the Democratic one, is sending a over a billion dollar's worth of war materials, not defensive materials, to Israel. Obviously, things are heating up and we are moving our pieces around the board in preparation for the next battle in WW IV.

The Democratic leaders think it is better that the sandal people, the generic protesters, don't know what it going on and what the will do. The Republicans leaders tell us what they think we should do, but don't think we should hear the full story of what is happening now - or happened in the past few years.

For my part, I am going to lunch.