From The Houston Chronicle, 6/24/06:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3999175.html
Bush 'dead cat bounce' in polls
By JULIE MASON
WASHINGTON -
White House officials hoping for a bounce in the polls from the
killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and President Bush's
surprise trip to Baghdad are having to make do with a flat line.
Bush's performance rating has been statistically unchanged in some
polls and up maybe 2 percentage points in others.
"He's still not in a great place," said John Fortier, a political
scholar at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute.
Bush, hovering in the mid-30 percentages for months in public approval
polls, recently enjoyed a spate of so-called good news, including
al-Zarqawi's death, the completion of a new Iraqi government, the
apparent legal clearance of Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in the CIA
leak case and the Republican Brian Bilbray win in the election to fill
the San Diego congressional seat vacated by former GOP Rep. Randy
"Duke" Cunningham, who is in prison for taking bribes.
"In the stock market they call it a 'dead cat bounce,' " said Cal
Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University.
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Then there's the dead cat stench. Then the dead cat gets buried.
Harry
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