Posted on 11/12/2005 9:45:28 AM PST by jmc1969
Forty-six percent (46%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Fifty-three percent (53%) of Americans Disapprove of the President's performance.
This is the President's highest Job Approval Rating in over a month.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Where? When?
The "3% margin of error," is a boilerplate disclaimer -- just like personal trainers will say, "Consult with your doctor before changing your activity or diet," knowing full well that is nonsense and absolves them of any liability. But it certainly sounds authoritative, impressive and intimidating.
The liberal media controls and suppresses the most articulate voices in society -- because it makes them look bad by comparison, and it is their show, and they're supposed to be the stars.
I agree.
These are not accurate, even though the hostile media spin is driving the President's numbers down (some people, like us, are educated, some instinctively know the media is lying, but too many are gullible and stupid, and believe things like "Bush bungled the Katrina response" and "Bush is racist" and "Bush lied about WMD," while the rest are leftist and incapable of rational thought).
His poll numbers were way up after 9/11 because for a while the left let up on it's lying attack and mostly acted like Americans. But right now, the poll questions are skewed, the responses are skewed (Republicans aren't polled as much and more often won't do the poll), and the numbers are just plain wrong.
Since the tactic of the left is to repeat a lie endlessly until people accept it as truth, I'll sin and repeat a truth endlessly. But, I'm not beating up on you, Kath.
The "polls" as presented to Ohioans a few days before the recent elections gloated that all of the liberal "reform" initiatives, on the upcoming ballot, would pass by 66%. Conservatives might as well not even bother to vote!
In the subsequent "real poll", the vote itself, the "reforms" failed by 66%. The polls are to be used for what they are worth... when you run out of kitty litter.
"The national polls are very accurate and all one needs do to verify that is to compare their actual findings with actual election results"
You're comparing apples and oranges!
When producing polling data for actual elections, pollsters do the following:
1.) survey 'likely voters',
2.) weight 'likely voter' responses according to party affiliation/demographic constants from previous elections, e.g., 37R:37D:26I (11/04)
3.) avoid push polling questions like the plague (responses to such questions are too easily disproven by actual polling results).
When producing polling data during periods between elections, pollsters do the following:
1.) survey 'adults' only (i.e., anyone with a pulse -- typically the elderly and the unemployed)
2.) rarely weight according to party affiliation/demographic constants -- this gives pollsters license to grossly OVERSAMPLE Demcrats/Democrat-leaning Independents (who also just happen to be unemployed females living in the Northeast) -- review the polling samples for recent AP/Ipsos Reid, Pew, Newsweek, CBSNews/NYTimes and ABCNews/WashPost polls!
3.) use 'push' polling techniques designed to shape rather than elicit public opinion.
Guess which approach is currently being used by MOST pollsters?!
If YOU can see through all these clumsy deceptions and manipulations, what makes you think others can't also? Are you that much more intelligent and perceptive than everybody else?
That is the attitude of the liberal supremacists -- that they are just so much smarter than everybody else, and that is why it is their duty to tell the masses what to think -- no matter what deceptions and manipulations are expedient. That is the biggest problem.
Most people underestimate the intelligence and perceptiveness of everybody else, and overestimate their own intelligence and perceptiveness.
CNN must be mad.
What is? You have a problem with people deciding to withhold their own money to the republican party until they start doing what we elected them to do?
That's what the media is trying to do -- convince you that everybody else has been duped -- and so you should be too.
Another key difference between approval polls and elections is obvious but often overlooked: the question "do you approve of how the President is doing his job" is totally different from the question "if the election was held today, would you vote for Bush, Kerry, or someone else?" Answers to the approval question depend a lot on the person's expectations for the economy, WOT, Iraq, etc., while the election vote question is a choice between a number of non-ideal candidates. Very rarely does any voter view a candidate as the ideal person for the job. So a significant percentage of people who disapprove of Bush's job performance today would still vote for Bush instead of Kerry or anyone else on the ballot last year. So job approval numbers for a President are usually lower than his percentage of the popular vote if an election were held today.
Please clarify.........not that many people know how skewed these polls really are. They really think the President is taking it on the chin.
I made an exception for those whose common sense tells them not to turn on the President because of what the media is trying to force down their throats, but we DO have a mushy middle. Are you saying they don't exist?
Rasmussen got 2002 and 2004 right on.
Most other pollsters got it dead wrong.
Furthermore, I'm a conservative. Anyone who believes MSM polls is not a real conservative. Their polling undersamples Republicans all the time. Most conservatives do not trust the biased MSM. It's the frauds who speak with a forked tongue and claim that the polling part of the MSM propaganda machine should be taking seriously.
Polls from the MSM do not get me angry any more.
The MSM lies.
The MSM only finds value in dead troops or 'screw ups'
I do not worry about them.
I live in Westchester County, NY.
No upsets in the 2005 election here.
Dems do worse in NJ and Virginia in 2005 versus 2001.
Come on.
Bottom line. If the GOP moves toward the base like they did in 2002 and 2004, they'll be fine. The coarse correction worked in 2002.
Deb, you can throw all these biased polls in the trash along with their falling newspaper circulation and tv ratings.
This guy's no conservative. He doesn't even understand what a conservative is.
Not sending money to Senators who don't do what they say they're going to do is somehow questionable to this 'dude.' That says all that needs to be said about the guy, IMO.....
Outsiders foisting a leftist takeover of Ohio elections, pollsters saying they were 'poised to pass,' and then Issues 2-5 going down in flames (70% NO on 2 of them, I believe).
Anyone who actually believes these polls needs some serious help.
His conservative Republican base still supports him in big numbers. Your contention is not accurate, Republic.
But then again, the President has always had a backbone, so your post isn't relevant anyway.
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