President Obama’s Poll Numbers Continue to Sink – but not at CBS
October 6, 2011
There is a scene in the charming 1942 film “I Married a Witch” where to prove her witchly powers to skeptical politician Fredric March, lovestruck Veronica Lake magically changes the ballot results to votes for Mr. March. It seems that some members of the similarly lovestruck Obama media feel compelled to resort to similar chicanery to make things looks not quite so bad for their candidate.
Here are today’s job approval results for President Obama as reported by RealClearPolitics:
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One set of polling results seems anomalous, possibly reflecting more the pollsters’ wishful thinking than proper statistical methods.
The polling data show a lot of red, as far greater percentages of respondents disapprove than approve of Mr. Obama’s job performance. The one exception is CBS, which reflects an equal percentage of voters approving as disapproving of Mr. Obama’s job performance. In fact, looking further into the RealClearPolitics results, we find an unbroken sting of red poll results since July 11 — each and every poll reflecting negative numbers for the President. Unbroken red but for the CBS tie. That’s a long stretch of bad numbers for Mr. Obama.
CBS may want to look into its poll-taking methodology, which seems to have skewed the results to make things look not so bleak for Mr. Obama. Then again, CBS’s voter sampling may have been disproportionately Democrat, or possibly was limited to only respondents in CBS’s own newsroom.
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