Doh!
Ahh, flashback to the elections. Soto is riding Gallup hard:
A week after the most recent Gallup Poll for CNN and the USA Today claimed that Bush's approval rating shot up to 57%, using a sample that had a 9 percentage point advantage for the GOP over Democrats (37% GOP, 28% Democrats), Gallup came out with its own poll last Friday. This poll, not done for CNN or USAT, and not bull-horned through the media and seemingly lost in the late Friday news dump, shows that Bush's approval rating plummeted in one week to 49%, with his disapproval rating now up to 48%. As yet, I do not have the party ID breakdowns from Gallup on the Friday poll, but I suspect they will show something less than a 37% GOP-28% Democratic breakdown.
How often is there a 16% swing in a public opinion poll in one week? As I said, the media is silent on this poll. A look at the Yahoo and Google front pages this morning yielded no mentions of a new Gallup poll that showed such bad numbers for Bush. And of course neither CNN nor USAT blasted this poll across their websites this morning. I wonder why the corporate conservative media doesn't find this a newsworthy story? Go figure.
Bush didn't drop 9 points in a single week. He was simply never at 57 percent, despite the fact that number was trumpeted throughout the land. It was an outlier.
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/2/15/122633/594
Ahh, flashback to the elections. Soto is riding Gallup hard:
A week after the most recent Gallup Poll for CNN and the USA Today claimed that Bush's approval rating shot up to 57%, using a sample that had a 9 percentage point advantage for the GOP over Democrats (37% GOP, 28% Democrats), Gallup came out with its own poll last Friday. This poll, not done for CNN or USAT, and not bull-horned through the media and seemingly lost in the late Friday news dump, shows that Bush's approval rating plummeted in one week to 49%, with his disapproval rating now up to 48%. As yet, I do not have the party ID breakdowns from Gallup on the Friday poll, but I suspect they will show something less than a 37% GOP-28% Democratic breakdown.
How often is there a 16% swing in a public opinion poll in one week? As I said, the media is silent on this poll. A look at the Yahoo and Google front pages this morning yielded no mentions of a new Gallup poll that showed such bad numbers for Bush. And of course neither CNN nor USAT blasted this poll across their websites this morning. I wonder why the corporate conservative media doesn't find this a newsworthy story? Go figure.
Bush didn't drop 9 points in a single week. He was simply never at 57 percent, despite the fact that number was trumpeted throughout the land. It was an outlier.
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/2/15/122633/594
