<img attachment="newbushindex_6098_image001.png" align="left" class="frame" caption="Bush's Approval Ratings since 2001"><a href="http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/">Professor Poolkatz's Pool of Polls</a> is a decidedly fanatical approach to making sense of polling data---specifically, the polls associated with Bush's approval ratings. The one to the left is a straight representation with standard deviation; note the spikes at 9/11, the start of the 2003 attack on Iraq, and the 2004 elections---all followed by steady downward trends, indicating how artificial the support was. <a href="http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/files/NEWBUSHINDEX_27229_image001.gif">Flush Bush</a> offers another interesting look at the same numbers. For those whose approval is conditional, there's also the graph comparing <a href="http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/files/NEWBUSHINDEX_28670_image001.gif">Bush Approval and Gasoline Prices</a>.