Rush mentions the numbers - 78% approval for Obama, 30% for Palin, and says he doesn't believe them. Frankly - neither do I. All poll data is skewed one way or another, the more so because usually 1000 people are polled. 1000, out of millions. Bah!
(And indeed, at the bottom of the articel, the 78% of Americans who approved Obama were 1,053 adults who don't have caller ID: The nationwide ABC News/Washington Post survey of 1,053 adults was conducted by telephone Jan. 13-16.)
Story #1: Approval Poll on AZ Shooting: Obama 78%, Palin 30%
RUSH: How about this. Ho-ho. I can't wait to dig deep and find the polling sample on this. The ABC News/Washington Post poll is out, and among other things in this poll, 78% of the American people approve of the way Obama handled Tucson in the aftermath. Thirty percent approve of the way Sarah Palin handled it.
Now, I don't believe either number for a moment. Seventy-eight percent approve of the way Obama handled it and 30% approved of the way Palin handled it? Why is she even being polled? She has no official role in handling it. She makes a video response after three or four days because she's dragged into it after being accused as an accessory. They'll always tell us, as I keep saying, who they are afraid of.
Now, by the way, folks, this ABC/Washington Post poll -- this is the same poll from the same group, Gary Langer & Associates, that said that two-thirds of Americans approved of what went on during the lame-duck session of Congress. Now, we went to the PDF file of the questionnaire, and I can't find, as of yet (we are still scouring out there), any breakdown of the respondents by party affiliation, and we know that this is how these polls are weighted, shifted, massaged, influenced.
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