Public sentiment

When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. – Lord Lytton

As I've said before, polls and surveys are unnecessary because if you know enough to write a decent survey, you already know all the answers. It is also possible to design a survey to give the result that you want.

So it is with some recent made for TV polls. Now we are told that only 37% of people think George Bush is doing a good job. This is viewed as some sort of "good" sign for the Democrats. There are a lot of folks who want to believe that, and many of them are the people designing the polls.

I have a different analysis of those results. George Bush has bad poll numbers, because he is spending like a Democrat; and growing the government in proportions unseen since the days of Lyndon Johnson.

Now, why would that be seen as a positive for Democrats, when most people know the Dems have no intention of fixing that problem? See what I mean? Ask the "wrong" poll question, and this is what you get.

I think if George would show a little backbone on spending and big government issues (he won't), he'd be back in the 60 point territory. He could still do that, but it won't save the rest of the Republicans who have squandered the golden opportunity to fix problems they said they would fix in 1994. It's probably too late for them. George isn't running for anything.