Don’t get your hopes up on this. It is not what it seems.
The first time I saw this posted in an FR thread was on Tuesday, March 10. At that time it was reported that Obama was getting a 51% F. Also at that time I checked MSNBC and did NOT find that there was a link to this poll from their site.
I just checked the HTML source for the poll and it appears that the poll was constructed on March 3. There is text in the metadata:
“content=”As the Obama administration nears the end of its second month, rate the president’s performance.”
Three possibilities exist:
(1)This was a poll that did not go well for Obama, so MSNBC “cut it loose”. [Note that it is currently not linked to from MSNBC.] This is the possibliity which most of us assumed.
(2) This could be a stale poll from March 3, but it has been accepting votes. The conservative community has been pumping up the ‘F’ votes and the current value is not representative of MSNBC readers. [This is at least partially true since the vote has shifted from 51% to 60% without an MSNBC link.]
(3) Based on the message about it being “at the end of the second month”, perhaps this poll was prepared for use towards the end of March which would be near the end of the second month. In other words, somebody may have stumbled into a poll which had not yet been posted by MSNBC and all the votes have come from the blogosphere.
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Worldview Radio ^ | March 9, 2009 | Brannon Howse
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2204440%2C32
How would you grade President Obama’s first 50 days in office?
Excellent 29% 18805
Good 30% 19130
Fair 19% 12318
Poor 21% 13532
Total Votes: 63785