I thought it would be interesting to look at the
SUSA Bush approval numbers in terms of Bush's slippage from the 2004 election to now, so I took Bush's
state by state 2004 election results, subtracted the current poll results (Bush's approval rating) and graphed the results:
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The scale on the left is the amount Bush has slipped in almost a year from November of 2005 to October 2004. (The SUSA poll was released today, 10/18/05, but the poll was taken between the 14th and the 16th.) These numbers are shown in the red andblue bars (corresponding to "red" states and "blue" states).
On the right, another scale is used for the election results (yellow triangles) and the SUSA poll approval numbers (white squares).
The second graph shows the same data, but with the states listed in order of their increasing percetage of vote for Bush:
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North and South Dakota sure got wise to Bush, not to mention Kansas and ... Texas?
Update: I tweaked the graphs a little, mostly to show red and blue states -- and in doing so revealed that most of Bush's slippage is in the red states, not the blue ones. Of course, Bush's election take in some of the blue states was so low that it would be hard to get too much lower.
Update: I fixed an error where New Mexico was colored blue instead of red, and changed the triangles back to yellow, which looked better.
Update: Another problem fixed -- due to a bad data sort, the District of Columbia (numbers for which weren't included in the SUSA poll) snuck onto the second chart, pushing Utah off the other side.
[Cross posted at unfutz]