| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Recent CBS Poll With Bush At 35% - BOGUS! |
| 2005-11-03 |
| Surprise meter = Blutarsky's GPA = 0.0 In a new poll, CBS has discovered that the President's approval rating has fallen to 35 percent. Examining the data, Dartmouth's Joe Malchow has in turn announced that the CBS poll is virtually worthless. How come? Whereas 25 percent of the respondents were Republicans, 35 percent were Democrats. A oversight, a bureaucratic snafu, I'm sure... Memo to Sean McManus, new president of CBS News: If this is the way you intend to re-establish your network's credibility, save yourself a lot of trouble and simply re-hire Dan Rather. CBS, at a minimum, simply does not care in the slightest about objective reporting; there's no 'mistake' that could explain it away. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #7 Not everyone identifies themselves with a party, Moose. Voters are very much in three equal camps, Rep, Dem, and Ind. CBS fudged the numbers to drop the representation of Republicans from about 33% to 23%. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-11-03 21:53 |
| #6 25+35=60. What were the other 40%? If they even refused to identify themselves by their political party, which is downright weird, then what credibility do they have in a poll? That's just way too flaky. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-11-03 20:01 |
| #5 Guess bush won't be reelected in 2008. So what difference does it make? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz (no T!) 2005-11-03 18:11 |
| #4 Also keep in mind that many conservatives disapprove of the budget and various domestic policies. But the cooking of the numbers is, well, not unbelievable. It's what I expect anymore. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-11-03 18:00 |
| #3 When viewing such 'approval' ratings one should remember that disapproval comes from all directions. For instance, the data do NOT necessarily demonstrate that the Liberals' perspective has a 65% approval rating. More likely what is shown is that the population is polarized, with the 'middle' getting ever smaller. The President is trying to govern the 'whole' country, which means he has to be somewhere in the middle, with lots of both sides against him. (It sure would help if his PR machine was better.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2005-11-03 17:58 |
| #2 And they wonder why people stop watching them when they keep playing with loaded dice. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-11-03 17:30 |
| #1 fake, but accurate. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-11-03 17:12 |