BUSH: Too Bad to be True

[bluebutterfly]

Too Bad to Be True ;D
by Alan Bisbort

March 22, 2004 -- HARTFORD (apj.us) -- Earlier this month, a Democratic pollster came to Yale University to answer the question "Do Americans Care About the Environment?" The event, part of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies' "Politics and Environment in the 2004 Election Year" Series, piggybacked off a similar presentation by a Republican pollster.

The Democratic pollster had a surprising perspective on this question, one that perhaps offers a clue as to why George W. Bush has been a beneficiary of puffed up poll numbers for the past three-plus years. The issue of the environment resonates as a polling issue, the pollster said, but only to a certain extent. Because the vast majority of Americans agree that a clean environment is a desirable thing, any loudly partisan attacks on Bush in this regard, no matter how justified they are -- and no American president has ever been as bad on the environment as Bush -- have a tendency to backfire. This is simply because people can't believe anyone, or any government, could be that bad.

In polling circles, this is called the "Too Bad to Be True" syndrome...

americanpolitics.com/20040322Bisbort.html

[ErinB]

The list is so long, BlueButterfly that it is almost too hard to believe but people need to know that it is real and it is true and generations will be paying for this far into the future even if we start cleaning up now.

I was so glad Gore gave his speech on the Environment a few months ago..lets hope he continues to speak about this and the people will hear his words.

[earthmother]

Too bad to be true? People didn't think he could possibly be as stupid or as dangerous as he is, either.

[ErinB]

Who would the Earth rather have as President? I know someone who would be Planet Earth's dream come true..its too bad the planet doesn't get to vote.