1. Note the polling of "adults", only 80% of whom said they were registered voters.
2. Be sure to go to the actual poll results summary.
Here you will see that they VASTLY oversampled Democrats, and the actual questions asked.
Note that even with the nonstop Dem lies and criticism, and the oversampling of Dems, the approval vs. disapproval of President Bush's foreign policy and terrorism, is about even within the margin of error: 47 approve vs. 51 disapprove.
When people are asked about whether they approve of how CONGRESS is handling its job, 33% approve, and 66% disapprove.
63% find President Bush likable, with only 36% who don't find him likeable.
56% find Pres. Bush intelligent.
More oversampling against Bush shows up in the demographics of the respondents: 53% employed full time, 11% employed part time, 22% retired, 14 % unemployed.
Investments/stocks/mutual fund owners: 51%. Again, I think in the total population this is much higher, they oversampled the "have-nots".
As in business, "read the fine print".
With MSM polls, "check the internals".
Well, he has a lot of folks thinkin' he is a Texan....
The RATS attempted to win the 2004 election through polls. The whole cycle from 2001-2004 was always about polls. Now, after Bush actually won with 60,000,000 votes, the RATS are back with polls.
I think the RATS are very confused. The Constitution says power is decided through elections, not through polls. Does anybody have questions?
"Here you will see that they VASTLY oversampled Democrats, and the actual questions asked."
That's how they do it. I worked in media polling for Yankelovich Partners the former polling unit for the CNN Time Magazine poll. The director of the poll is a major Democrat and a major liberal. He never cared that they oversampled Democrats. When I pointed out to him the skew and the need to weight the data to take out the skew, he just waved me off. This is why I don't trust media polls. They're quick and dirty, more interested in getting the results out quick to meet a press deadline than getting it right. These things are best ignored.
It because of reasons like this that I am registered as a Democrat. I get to upset their polling numbers, particularly during phone surveys!
The left has tried to manipulate public opinion on the President since day 1, and have failed. They tried to manipulate the vote through bogus polls and they failed.
Polling is designed to make headlines and undermine the President's authority.
Stupid leftists. They're just losers, that's all..........
is it amazing that in the eight years that slick willie was in the white house there was never a poll that asked do you think the president is honest?
but then again during that administration that was probably the dumbest question you could ask.
poll answer: yes 0%, no 100% error % -0-
Yet another Friday push poll dump.
Last week it was plumiting approval ratings on friday,
now it is "honesty" on friday?
What will it be next week? bad hairstyle rating?
I question Pres. Bush on a number of things, especially the illegal & border issues. But he is in the downhill run now. I am more interested in whom we put in the Oval Office next. As long it is not Dick Chaney (health reasons), I am open to suggestions.
This is an mixed ADULTS and Registered Voters poll, not just registered voters. Note the consistant gap in the party ID between Democrats and Republicans, strange given the the 2004 Presidential Election exit polls identified 37% Republicans, 37% Democrats and 26% Independents among the voting American public. The Republicans have achieved voter self-indentification parity with the Democrats for the first time since the late 1920s.
This series of AP/Ipsos poll result on Presidential job approval and the American public views on the 'direction of the country' was as always based on a skewed demographic sample that averages 41% Republican, 49% Democrat and 10% Independent composition. I think that when the AP poll fails to get the results they desire, they 'play' with both the registered voters composition and vary the un-registered voter portion of the poll sample. Since the Registered voter portion of the poll averages around 79% and the 'breathing' voter averages around 21% you can see they have quite a bit of "statistical slack" to play with to get the results they require...
Note: The AP/Ipsos polls are published in PDF format and become unavailable after one month. You must be a 'premium' member to access those PDF files on their web site. No consistant links are provided for that reason. The August AP/Ipsos poll is listed below.
Source: AP-Ipsos Poll, August 1-3, 2005 Project #81-5139-49
Hope this helps,
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I was recently asked to give my opinion (along with a dozen or so other people) on a testy local issue. The reporter started swearing a blue streak when the first 9 people she went to question wouldn't give her the answers or point of view she wanted to hear.
I just about blew my cork when the story aired on the local station - TWO people were quoted, and a completely [anti-development] spin was presented as the "majority opinion" of town residents in the story.
MSM to Local 100% spin 100% of the time.
The new term is "Pollitorial"...
Injecting an editorial opinion and masking media bias by taking and quoting polls of a specific "bent" and using the results to bolster the "facts" the media outlet predetermined them to be.
Damn it!!!!!!
You may 100% disagree with him, but he IS the President of the United States. It's called common courtesy, Will scumbag!
You mean there is objective truth and someone can be judged as either honest of not? And look it is Democrats that are acknowledging it by responding to the question. Maybe they're ready to discuss the Clintons honestly now? / end sarcasm
I expect more from Fox News, but they fail to deliver most of the time these days.......
A poll of 1000 adults that is meant to be applied to the US population in general is completely invalid. The US population is approximately 29 million. That's .0000344% of the population. Any poll under 10% is considered by statisticians and scientific researchers to be unreliable. So, unless they survey 2,900,000, they cannot claim any level of accuracy. Randomness doesn't even matter with a sample that small.