Friday, March 10, 2006

New Bush Poll Biased by the Numbers

NATION

President Bush speaks at the Georgia Republican Party's annual Presidents Day dinner in Atlanta, March 9, 2006. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque COMMENTLINE
Once again AP-Ipsos presents us with flawed poll numbers in Bush's Approval Rating Falls to New Low . The poll is stacked in most of its demographics to favor pro-Democrat results and is used to present a situation that would seem dire when taken at face value. When we look at the data, the whole story becomes questionable.

Amazingly, the article sourcing the poll makes the statement that more Republicans now disapprove of Bush's performance ... when the survey actually fails to poll enough Republican respondents to base the claim upon.

Of polled:
Republicans: 29%
Democrat: 35%
Independent: 20%
None: 14%
Actual -- in last election: 37% each for Republicans/Democrats, the rest with third party or no party affiliation.

Of polled:
Religion: 19% said they had none.
Actual -- in last election 10% said they had none.

Of polled:
Race: 69% white
Actual -- 77% white

Source: Ankle Biting Pundits
Source: Ipsos

NEWSLINE
A first-year student in statistics would be flunked for turning in poll results as obviously bad as this AP-Ipsos poll. Yet thousands of articles will appear in all media, across the nation and the world in the next few days, based on this poll. John Armor

NEWSBYTES
Bush's Approval Rating Falls to New Low
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More and more people, particularly Republicans, disapprove of President Bush's performance, question his character and no longer consider him a strong leader against terrorism, according to an AP-Ipsos poll documenting one of the bleakest points of his presidency.

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have a lot more on the bias of this poll, and the flat out lies of the articles reporting it:

http://www.rightwinged.com/2006/02/busted_misleading_cbs_poll_say.html

8:44 AM EST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

guess I needed to use html to make that link work

http://www.rightwinged.com/2006/02/busted_misleading_cbs_poll_say.html

8:45 AM EST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's right. Attack the messenger. Hmmmm - can you say ducking accountability?

12:50 PM EST  
Blogger Steven Moyer said...

No one with a defendable comment would have to hide behind a cloak of Anonymous.

I didn’t attack any messenger. If you would have actually read my comments, you would have seen that. I only quoted the numbers, which is more than I can say for anonymous folks who appear to exist in a data-free environment.

Perhaps Bush’s popularity is low across the nation. However, a slanted poll only reflects bias in the desire of the polltakers to obtain a desired result over a random result.

1:53 PM EST  

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