1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president? Do you approve/disapprove strongly or somewhat?
---------Approve--------- --------Disapprove------- No
NET Strongly Somewhat NET Strongly Somewhat opin.
7/15/02 72 42 31 25 13 12 2
6/17/02 74 42 32 22 13 9 4
6/9/02 77 41 36 20 11 9 3
5/19/02 76 48 28 22 13 8 3
4/21/02 78 47 31 20 10 9 2
3/28/02 79 49 30 18 10 8 3
3/10/02 82 52 30 16 7 9 2
1/27/02 83 56 27 14 7 7 3
12/19/01 86 64 22 12 6 6 2
11/27/01 89 69 21 9 5 4 1
11/6/01 89 65 24 9 4 5 2
10/9/01 92 76 16 6 3 3 1
This morning, on Fox News (where else?) I heard an explanation of the difference between the Wash. Compost poll and Zogby's. Turns out that the Wash. Compost poll allows one of two answers - approve or disapprove.
The Zogby poll allows a range - excellent, good, fair, poor. Zogby lumps the "fair" answers with the "poor". If he put the "fair" answers with the excellent and good, the number goes to around 72%.
When I went to school, if you got "fair" you still passed. If you got "poor" you failed. So much for Zogby's "integrity".