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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34262)	3/21/2009 1:02:41 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! Peter, if you are to have any credibility on this subject at all... you would be much better served sticking with some AVERAGE of all the Big National Polls (like the rolling two week average that RealClearPolitics regularly updates and posts that I showed you... which tends to smooth out all the static and normal tracking error that single polls have.) But if the normally Republican-leaning Rassmussen is the ONLY POLL you will ever look at... just remember that one week prior to the election last Fall Rassmussen was the only national polling organization projecting a win for John McCain. <g> (Me... I stick with the rolling AVERAGES of ALL the big polls.)

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34262)	3/21/2009 1:37:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Peter... anyone can choose a single poll that they cotton to and claim that it justifies big, sweeping claims (mostly agreeing with what personal biases they already hold <g>), like, say... this following poll. (Or your personal favorite the Rassmussen. <GGG>) But STATISTICALLY we are on far safer and more reliable ground when we look at a rolling average of ALL THE BIG NATIONAL POLLS (like the rolling average that RealClearPolitics maintains.) Meanwhile though, here is yet another SINGLE POLL (not to be confused with the more reliable AVERAGE of ALL the polls!) ================================================== Obama holds steady in national poll blog.seattlepi.com He is starting to take flak from the "commentocracy" in Washington, D.C., but President Obama holds onto a 67 percent approval rating in the latest Research 2000 nationwide survey. The poll has Obama down one point, with a one-point uptick to 28 percent in his unfavorable ratings. In the poll, conducted Tuesday through Thursday, the Republican Party and GOP congressional leaders remain in what former President George H.W. Bush memorably described as "the deep doo-doo." The Republican Party, lately beset by internal turmoil, gets a favorable rating of just 27 percent, with 65 percent of those surveyed having an unfavorable opinion of the GOP. The Democratic Party gets a 53 percent thumbs-up, with 39 percent viewing the party unfavorably. Obama's approval rating has dipped as low as 59 percent in one recent poll - treated to a joyous headline in the right-wing Drudge Report website. A CNN "poll of polls", which averaged seven national surveys, last week gave Obama a 61 percent approval rating, described as "a pretty robust level of support" by CNN polling director Keating Holland. At the same point in their administrations, George W. Bush had a 58 percent approval rating, Bill Clinton was at 53 percent, George H.W. Bush at 56 percent, and Ronald Reagan at 60 percent. Research2000 is an independent polling firm with a good track record in the 2008 election. It has been taking the public pulse for dailykos.com, a liberal website that generally supports Obama's policies -- but has taken pointed digs at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In its latest finding, Reid gets the lowest rating of any Democrat, a 34 percent approval rating with 47 percent having an unfavorable view of the Nevada senator. But Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, was seen favorably by just 19 percent of those polled - with a 54 percent unfavorable rating. A target of unrelenting fire from Fox News and other conservative media, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi manages a 39 percent favorable rating, with 41 percent holding an unfavorable opinion of the San Francisco congresswoman. Overall, congressional Democrats are seem favorably by 44 percent of those polled, and unfavorably by 48 percent. Republicans in Congress will need to dig themselves out of a hole. In the poll they are seen favorably by just 17 percent of Americans, with a whopping 72 percent disapproval figure. Obama has taken his case to the public this week, visiting California for a two-day series of town meetings -- one in solidly Republican Orange County -- with the trip culminating with an appearance on the "Tonight Show." He has scheduled a prime time news conference next Tuesday. Posted by at March 20, 2009 1:27 p.m. Categories: Barack Obama, Democrats, political polls, Republicans