It's always 'the sample stupid'!
Notice that this news story neglects to provide a detailed overview of the polling sample used to generate the results cited!
Nevertheless, we can know with certainty that it overpolled Democrats. Why? 1.) ALL current pollsters are oversampling Democrats/Democrat-leaning Independents, 2.) polls completed over a HOLIDAY weekend always oversample D/DLIs, and 3.) at least 4 RED states (I'm including Texas) were severely impacted by Katrina, forcing pollsters to oversample respondents from BLUE states (even more so than they normally would)!
Given the polling realities cited above, coupled with the MSM's grossly negative coverage of the President during this crisis, we should regard these results as stunningly positive! [And as the LOW benchmark for approval -- an unbiased, REPRESENTATIVE polling sample would have generated even better ratings for the president!!!]
NOW, we must 'get busy' and start calling/e-mailing the various news agencies with some much need feeback regarding their grotesquely BIASED news coverage!
Glad to see you found this thread. Your poll analysis is always the most useful I've found of any source. Anywhere.
That is a given. ABC polls are not ginned up to favor Reps by a long shot. Which is why I'm in such a good mood. If these are the lowest numbers ABC can get despite every tactic tried? We're doing good.