Posted on 02/28/2006 4:29:33 AM PST by peyton randolph
With his characteristic optimism, President George Bush said today that his 34 percent approval rating in the latest CBS News poll, an all-time low for his presidency, could be worse.
“I’m concerned, but I’m not pulling my hair out,” said Mr. Bush. “After all, it could be worse — I could be as unpopular as the CBS Evening News.”
Indeed, the flagship CBS News production languishes at the bottom of the network news heap, with a mere 10 percent share of a rapidly-dwindling audience of...
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Gotta go to work, bump.
Funnier still: the CBS ratings are scientifically accurate, but that job approval "poll" is badly skewed leftward.
Scott Ott is so great.
Dan
THIS IS CBS?
[via Kathryn Jean Lopez in The Corner]
A pollster type e-mails about the new CBS presidential #s:
I'm pretty livid after reading the latest CBS poll, which shows POTUS at a record low job approval, and VPOTUS in the teens.
Please check out page 18 of the pdf file that tallies up the poll. This page includes the frequency data.
Note the respective numbers of Republicans and Democrats:
GOPers: 272 (weighted up to 289)
DEMs: 409 (weighted down to 381)
INDs: 337 (weighted up to 348)
This is NOT representative of the electorate.
They also used a split-sample methodology, which is legit (we've used it ourselves), but which also INCREASES the margin of error for those questions (a fact that is usually glossed over).
You'll also note that the story at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/27/opinion/polls/main1350874.shtml
land the pdf both reference "Americans." Not likely voters.
Now, I'll tell you right now, what "Americans" or "adults nationwide" think, doesn't matter one iota in politics, or the polling world.
Ultimately, anyone who thinks CBS is guilty of bias can find more
evidence in this poll, which is exceedingly dirty.
Posted at 10:52 PM
http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_02_26_corner-archive.asp#091138
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Yeah, I liked that one, too!
Even they don't deserve such a slow, long, lingering, disgusting demise... Uh...well maybe they do, but we don't deserve the odious spectacle.
Only one of the two is honest
Dick Cheney accidentally shot someone in the face and chest.
CBS blatantly shoots America in the back.
ROFLMAO! Scrappleface does it again!
Extremely interesting analysis....who is the "we"? :)
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