Gallups poll not done for others(CNN) has Chimpy at 49%

[RamboLiberal]

Gallup sucks
by kos
Tue Feb 15th, 2005 at 09:26:33 PST

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://www.dailykos.com/

[GCP]

1. I saw it on CBS last night

Huge drop in one week - it'll go even lower once they factor in the Social Security fiasco.

[natrat]

2. and if msm gets ahold of the hooker in the white house look out

[Supersedeas]

3. curious....but where are the Headlines regarding the 'swing'

[gratuitous]

4. Don't miss the larger point

When Bush polled at 57% in a poll with suspect methodology (oversampling of Republicans), the results were all over the networks and used as buttressing for Bush's hare-brained scheme to loot Social Security.

Now that the same organization releases a poll showing Bush at 49% approval . . . listen DU, crickets!

[bush_is_wacko]

5. All the polls are being distorted. I have seen CNN poll results

reflecting those later numbers only to hear a week later that the results were changed. I think we all have.

the issue really is WHY THE HELL WON'T THE PUBLIC SPEAK OUT IN LARGER NUMBERS?!

Everywhere I go, someone is talking about how criminal this administration is. I can't possibly incite all these people to lie to me because they know I'm a Liberal! I live in supposed bush country, see the stickers all day every day and yet EVERYWHERE I go, I always find someone who hates this administration.

I'm also starting to see a heck of a lot of "support our troops, bring them home now" bumper stickers and "I don't have to love your president to support our troops stickers."

This administration KNOWS American's don't support them. That is why they lock their doors and let no one in.