MORE FUN WITH (Gallup) POLLS...(or is it psyops?)

[Wilms]

The Left Coaster

Yesterday's Gallup Poll Showing Bush Approval At 57% Had 9% More Republicans Than Democrats.

Wednesday :: Feb 9, 2005

by Steve Soto

The more things change, the more things stay the same. And Gallup is showing us that a leopard doesn’t change its spots.

On the heels of the Iraqi election, and with the White House needing a boost in Bush’s image and approval ratings as he tries to ram through a terrible budget and Social Security privatization plan to a wavering GOP, much was made yesterday about the most recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll done over the weekend. This poll, bull-horned through the media and rightwing blogosphere, showed an incredible jump in Bush’s approval rating to 57%, a five-point jump from the polls done in early January. Yet even those earlier January polls it turned out were suspect because, you guessed it, they were based on a sample that had more Republicans in it than Democrats (37.2% GOP, 35.6% Democrat, and 27% Independent).

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Hardly. The poll trumpeted far and wide yesterday by CNN, USAT, and the right wing blogosphere was based on a sample constructed by Gallup that contained 37% Republicans, 35% Independents, and only 28% Democrats.

You read that correctly.

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[whistle]

1. Why not just survey all republicans and show approvals at....

....80% for Bush? What ever happened to scientific sampling?

[Wilms]

2. Give them time. n/t

[fasttense]

3. It amazes me that for all their Talk about morals

Repukes can lie, cheat and steal without a second thought. Their manipulative, underhanded methods are going to catch up with them. They couldn't win and honest election or come out on top of an honest poll, if they tried. They better hope the rapture doesn't come very soon or they will be paying for their lies for eternity.

[meganmonkey]

4. Time for a media slam???

Olbermann, for one? SOMEONE needs to report this!

[helderheid]

5. Keith's the man

Let's email him.

Oh, and Jon Stewart. He may not be "real news" but a hell of a lot of people watch it to get the stuff they can't see on the "real news".