APPROVAL RATINGS FOR ALL 50 GOVERNORS AS OF 1/19/06

[Gabu]

TAFT APPROVAL RATING SURGES
DISAPPROVAL RATING DROPS LIKE A ROCK

GO BOB TAFT

[Gabu]

According to the approval poll, he'd be great for the coveted Hispanic 18-34 Republican Liberal Pro-Life Female With Some College Who Never Attends Church demographic!

Apparently, 17% of Democrats approve of Bob Taft.

Given that only 21% of Republicans approve, I have to wonder who the heck these Democrats are.

[Gabu]

That's weird.  I wonder why Blanco nose-dived like that?  I for one am stumped.

I don't know, it could maybe have something to do with a silly little thing that happened on August 29.

[Gabu]

Nobody gets ironic sarcasm any more.

I was being sarcastic too.

[Gabu]

It is interesting how the Dems in Bush states tend to have better approval ratings than the Dems in Kerry states.

This doesn't seem too surprising to me: if you get elected in a state where you "shouldn't" have gotten elected, given your political party, there must be something good about you.  On the other hand, if you get elected in a state in which you "should" have gotten elected, there's a much higher chance that you're only mediocre and that you got in because of your party and because you didn't screw up too badly.

[Gabu]

Nobody gets ironic sarcasm any more.

It's hard to do sarcasim on an internet forum.  I hate that.

Unless it's really obvious (or unless you're known to be a rather sarcastic person), it's often helpful (if you're worried about it) to end sarcasm with something like "</sarcasm>" just to let people know that what they just read was indeed sarcasm.