Fuck Gallap I knew this would happen

[brettdale]

I knew this would happen, I think I will stay off the internet today.

Gallup has just done some polls on Bushy's speech. Have aguess what those losers say the public reaction was.

[Goldmund]

1. You have a link?

[Sasha Undercover]

9. Here's a link

http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=17131

It's a flash poll.

Don't react so badly so quickly :) I heard last night that the viewers were about 50% repubs, 23% dems, 27% 'undecided' whatever that means. If a poll of 323 folks right after the speech comes out like this - 46% very positive - , it isn't cool for Our President.

[Journeyman]

12. Thank you, Sasha. . .

always nice to find voices of reason in the general cacophony of dismay.

It's been my experience with most polls and so-called "snapshots" that if I give them a day or so a different poll with a radically different result will surface. It's not the snapshot in time people should be concerned with but time's flow, instead, and the direction its currents are taking ShrubCo these days is rapidly down river.

Welcome to DU. I look forward to reading more of your posts.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. And the rest of the story is ........

Only about 1/3 of those who said they would watch the yakfest actually did.

Other priorities, dontcha know .......

[Goldmund]

22. Wasn't reacting badly --

-- I just don't like using emoticons so much.

Thanks!

[dbonds]

2. Gallop is never accurate.

Only worth watching to see how much spin they put on it. Consider Gallop the reach around of polls.

[blm]

3. Always subtract at least 5points from Gallup on Bush approval.

Gallup is so far to the right they can't see straight.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Gallup is owned by a GOP shill.

What did you expect?

[libertypirate]

5. Do they read public opinion or do they set it?

I am never sure of what the expectation is with these polls.

[htuttle]

14. They try to set it

"You'll PAY to know what you REALLY think!"
-- Bob Dobbs

[teach1st]

6. This one? 50% Republican, 23% Democrat

http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=17131

The speech was viewed by an audience composed disproportionately of Bush supporters, a pattern Gallup has observed in other major Bush speeches. Fifty percent of the viewing audience identified themselves as Republicans, 27% as independents, and 23% as Democrats.

While Bush may largely have been "preaching to the choir," the viewing audience did come out of the speech with a slightly more positive outlook on the war than it had before the speech.

Before the address, 44% of those who watched the speech said the United States and its allies were winning the war, 9% said the insurgents, and 44% saw it as a stalemate. Following Bush's speech, 54% of viewers said the United States was winning, 7% the insurgents, and 35% neither side. That represents a statistically significant change even with the small sample size of speech watchers. Most of the shift came from the group who said "neither side" was winning before the speech.

[dogday]

8. Well that is slanted right there

[dogday]

10. Mindless Freakin Monkeys

How can Shrub talk and the whole world just suddenly changes it's mind. This is the biggest load of crap. I saw the slant last night especially with MSNBC. Damn Matthews was in freeper country listening to right....

[ComerPerro]

13. So, he got 4% of the group that's not Republican

to "come around" to his point of view?

How pathetic.

50% of the room is Republican, and by the end of the speech only 54% thinks we're winning.

Thats just pathetic.

[BamaLefty]

7. BULLSHIT!

The speech was viewed by an audience composed disproportionately of Bush supporters, a pattern Gallup has observed in other major Bush speeches. Fifty percent of the viewing audience identified themselves as Republicans, 27% as independents, and 23% as Democrats.

http://gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=17131

[AmBlue]

11. Total crap

Even AOL's obviously puke-slanted polls showed 73% of those polled, as of about 10am this morning, were "MORE WORRIED" about America after Bush's speech last night, as opposed to "more optimistic," or "it didn't change things." (or something to that effect) The article link is already down from the AOL home page. That alone speaks volumes.

[Bouncy Ball]

15. LOL most non-repukey people know better than to lose brain

cells listening to Chimpy McCokespoon. I don't personally know a single person who watched it.

323 people....yeah, HUGE sample. :rofl: What, were they afraid to ask anymore than that? LOL!

[friesianrider]

16. CNN admitted...

In their "polls" of those who watched that a "solid majority" were "very reassured" by Bush's speech, that the majority of those who watched were Republican. At least they admit (at the end of a 60 minute broadcast) that the polls they're spewing are majorly tilted in Chimpy's favor.

[lonestarnot]

17. Those fuckers just have to perpetuate the lie!

[fujiyama]

18. I don't see

how one speech would have changed many minds. The methodology is questionable. A vast majority didn't watch the stupid thing in the first place. I sure didn't.

The kool aid drinkers that liked it already liked it, no matter what.

[ailsagirl]

20. Gallup's pres (or CEO) is a rethug... dismissed

[AlCzervik]

21. don't let it bother you, most of the other polls showed he sucked