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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cage Rattler who wrote (9519)	3/18/2009 11:49:39 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "rosy poll-findings were intentionally skewed by sampling and question bias" Cage Rattler, (although I don't buy your 'intentional skewing' scenario :-), that is WHY I mostly only pay any real attention to the AVERAGES of ALL the BIG NATIONAL POLLS! (And not to any single polling outfit... certainly not the notoriously 'jumpy' daily polls... which always bounce all over the place with each new daily sample.) I feel that only with a rolling average of ALL the BIG NATIONAL POLLS (such as the rolling two-week average of all big polls that RealClearPolitics posts) can we honestly expect to really see the trendlines: RCP Poll Averages President Obama Job Approval RCP Average Approve 60.2 Disapprove 31.7 Spread +28.5 Congressional Job Approval RCP Average Approve 36.8 Disapprove 53.5 Spread -16.7 Direction of Country RCP Average Right Direction 35.8 Wrong Track 56.8 Spread -21.0 realclearpolitics.com Details: RealClearPolitics Poll Averages President Obama Job Approval Poll Date Sample Approve Disapprove Spread RCP Average 03/09 - 03/16 -- 60.2 31.7 +28.5 CBS News 03/12 - 03/16 1142 A 62 24 +38 Gallup 03/13 - 03/15 1547 A 61 28 +33 Rasmussen Reports 03/13 - 03/15 1500 LV 56 43 +13 CNN/Opinion Research 03/12 - 03/15 1019 A 64 34 +30 NPR - POS/GQR 03/10 - 03/14 800 LV 59 35 +24 Pew Research 03/09 - 03/12 1308 A 59 26 +33 More Polling Data \| Chart \| News Congressional Job Approval Poll Date Approve Disapprove Spread RCP Average 02/26 - 03/14 36.8 53.5 -16.7 NPR - POS/GQR 03/10 - 03/14 36 58 -22 Gallup 03/05 - 03/08 39 54 -15 FOX News 03/03 - 03/04 41 48 -7 NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 02/26 - 03/01 31 54 -23 More Polling Data \| Chart \| News Direction of Country Poll Date Right Direction Wrong Track Spread RCP Average 03/04 - 03/16 35.8 56.8 -21.0 CBS News 03/12 - 03/16 35 57 -22 NPR - POS/GQR 03/10 - 03/14 31 63 -32 Daily Kos/R2000 03/08 - 03/12 37 60 -23 Ipsos/McClatchy 03/05 - 03/09 44 48 -4 Democracy Corps (D) 03/04 - 03/08 32 56 -24 More Polling Data \| Chart \| News Login \| Register \| RSS About Us \| Contact \| Advertise \| Privacy Policy © RealClearPolitics 2009 realclearpolitics.com