Posted on 07/30/2009 10:00:29 PM PDT by AmericanSphinx71
There are several new polls out over the past 24 hours that show more problems for President Obama. The trend lines are consistent: declining support for his health-care plan, rising worries about the deficit and slippage in his approval ratings. But what if the polls are wrong?
Not wrong in the sense that they have incorrectly charted a downward slope for the president after six months in office, but wrong in the sense that they don't entirely capture the dynamic of this moment in the Obama presidency.
I raise that question after spending Wednesday night in Towson observing a focus group conducted by pollster Peter Hart for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hart assembled 12 independent voters -- seven who supported Obama in November, four who backed John McCain and one who voted for Ralph Nader. The two-hour session was eye-opening for Hart and a group of journalists.
The most arresting moment came when Hart asked everyone to recall how they felt on election night. It was as if the room was transported back to Chicago's Grant Park for the celebration of Obama's victory.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
So, then. Is the Post sucking up to the Chicago Messiah in the hope of corralling some bailout money?
Or is it just force of habit?
No wonder this country is a mess. What does that even mean?
>”Don’t give up. We haven’t,” said Scott Wood, who has been unemployed since winter<
I would like to pay Mr Scott Wood 1,000,000 “hope and change” dollars.
FREEP THIS POLL
a) produce the birth certificate
b) resign
c) repeal porkulus
d) take a very long vacation
That was a hurl fest.
Good night America, too many people are too stupid to actually have freedom.
He has already had several.
I choose B) Resign. But since he hates this nation that will never happen.
“.. polls are wrong in the sense that they don’t entirely capture the dynamic of this moment in the Obama presidency.”
Should read: “but wrong in the sense that they don’t entirely capture the disaster of this moment in the Obama presidency.”
Hart had spent the day digesting the results of an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll that showed warning signs for the president. But as Hart put it when the session in Towson ended: "Don't get fooled by the numbers alone because there is something that is stronger there -- and that surprised me and I thought that was important."
No propaganda here, folks. This is pure science and hard headed analysis.
So a lib writer for a lib paper goes to a focus group in a lib state that is conducted by a lib pollster and has 2 to 1 lib supporters.......mmmmmm way to go there guy
////quote//// But what if the polls are wrong?
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I bet the disapproval of Obama is even _greater_ than what is indicated by most polls.
I don’t recall seeing the Post mention that the poll numbers weren’t the whole story with Bush. I guess I may not have been paying attention all that much to what the Post was printing though.
(Like I would have missed that one... ha!)
Better be careful. Someone might accuse you of being racist. It doesn’t take much these days.
Don’t forget to go to the Post site and view the comments. Hussein Dumpty isn’t going to be put back together again.
Hmmm...Go join Lenin in his tomb? Go back to Kenya? Release your BC, school records, passport to Pockyston and source of college funding? Tell Michelle to get her growing caboose under control? Tell your kids they represent the US when abroad and dress with some dignity? Stop apologizing for the greatest nation on earth?
So many things I'd like to tell the creep.
‘polls are wrong in the sense that they don’t entirely capture the dynamic of this moment in the Obama presidency in the minds of the LIEberal Media’. There. I fixed it.
Gasping for air, begging for anyone to hear his whimpers, as Obama claws at the door to his coffin.
First, this is Maryland. Towson is just beyond the City limits.
Maryland is BLUE, through and through. so even the brave one’s who voted against Obama would remain hesitant to take the battle on.
Add in the odds — what was it, 7 democrats, 4 republicans and 1 something or other.
Fixed poll set up by biased media.
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