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To: SiouxPal who wrote (59861)	3/2/2006 1:52:36 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 360868

Cons don't like poll results: Media reach to minimize Bush's poor poll results Summary: A recent poll conducted by CBS News that placed President Bush's approval rating at 34 percent has become the target of misleading and uninformed attacks by conservatives in the media. A recent poll conducted by CBS News that placed President Bush's approval rating at 34 percent has become the target of misleading and uninformed attacks by conservatives in the media. Among polls taken in the past few weeks testing opinions of the president, the CBS poll result for the president's approval is at the low end; recent polls compiled on the Polling Report website put Bush's approval at an average of approximately 40 percent. The lower approval rating reported by the CBS poll, apparently, is what set off most of the discontent among conservative media figures. The bulk of the attacks by conservatives concerned the fact that CBS' sample included a higher percentage of Democrats than they contend accurately reflects the general population. But in fact, according to Republican strategist Richard A. Galen in a column on the conservative Cybercast News Service, the adjusted percentages in the poll -- 37 percent Democrats and 28 percent Republicans -- do in fact reflect the proportion of Democrats and Republicans in the general population. Moreover, pollster Mark Blumenthal has noted on the Mystery Pollster weblog that even if the sample were weighted to make it more closely reflect previous CBS poll samples, the results would likely be similar because of Bush's low approval among independents. mediamatters.org