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Today's Rasmussen poll has Obama's Approval Index at zero. What's especially significant is that this comes four days after ABC's all-day-culminating-with-a-broadcast-from-the-White House health-care plan telethon and five days after a press conference -- one in which, incidentally, some reporters were (finally!) actually asking challenging questions and reacting to the (il)logic of his answers. Note that, during that time Obama's A.I. never exceeded +2, compared to previous peaks of +10 after the Sotomayor nomination and +9 after his Cairo speech.
In other words, Obama's ability to pump up the numbers via media extravaganzas has hit the point of diminishing returns.
Rasmussen releases a new poll almost every day, and it seems that every one of them makes Obama and Democrats look bad. Their bias is obvious. If they weren't biased, at least a few of their polls would cast Republicans in a negative light, but that never seems to happen.
You can play with numbers any way you want to make something look good or look bad. "Obama Approval Index at 0". Whatever.
How about using the poll that over time has proven to be the most accurate. Now those polls would be which oh thats right Rasmussen would be one of them
How about using the poll that over time has proven to be the most accurate. Now those polls would be which oh thats right Rasmussen would be one of them
There's a big difference between being accurate in predicting an election and accurate on opinion polls. There's nothing to confirm an opinion poll.
And why would you trust only one polling company anyway? Do you not believe in competition?
How about using the poll that over time has proven to be the most accurate. Now those polls would be which oh thats right Rasmussen would be one of them
The graphs, for the most part, track in parallel. That implies the methodology is sound but the sampling may be skewed. Obama's numbers are dropping like a rock, but Rasmussen has them a few points lower than other polls. Also, your poll as an extremely sensitive Y axis scale, making a 1% delta look very very different.
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