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I think this is an important topic that might tell us a lot about how we're forming our opinions. Unfortunately, I can't reply in detail right now.
I did want to mention that if you follow host's link to the polling summary website, there are other polls (USA Today and ABC news come to mind) which ask the same question and track the results over a longer period of time. The results are a little difficult to read (it takes me a second to focus my eyes on the date column) but interesting. I'd kind of be interesting in plotting these on a bar graph that correlated major events of the Bush administration so you could see how specific things have impacted this "gut feeling".
I also think that it is interesting that Bush himself seems to be a person who relies on gut feelings to assess character and events - how often have we heard him talk about peering into the eyes of Vladimir Putin and finding that the other was a "good guy" or a "trustable leader"? Maybe it makes sense that other people who think this way are comfortable with President Bush?
The onion article, obviously, is just satire, but it is pretty funny in a topical way... The stuff above it certainly warrants discussion.
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