Washington Post/ABC Polls Schizophrenics and Political Dullards?

J.J. Jackson* | February 27, 2007

I wanted to wait to comment on the Wa-Po/ACB poll which is the latest attempt to show how much America dislikes President Bush, Republicans and basically everything that is currently going on until the internals were released. I have to say that after looking at the internals I think these guys and gals are polling schizophrenics and dullards.

Let me explain.

Compare question 4: Do you approve or disapprove of the way (b) Condoleezza Rice is handling her job as Secretary of State? Approve – 58% Disapprove – 31% No Opinion – 10%

to this:

Question 2: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Bush is handling (b) the US campaign against terrorism? Approve – 46% Disapprove – 52% No Opinion – 1%

How is this possible? Condoleezza Rice is the Secretary of State and a central figure in the “campaign against terrorism” yet she has a higher approval rating than the President whose policy she is implementing? Are the people that were polled by Wa-Po/ABC aware that Condi is not a lose cannon and that she is following the policy of the President?

Apparently not. Hence why I suggest there are a lot of political dullards that were polled.

Let’s move on.

Question 2 Do you approve or disapprove of the way Bush is handling (c) the economy? Approve – 43% Disapprove – 55% No Opinion – 2%

Anyone want to point out where the President has any actual authority or ability to “handle” the economy? I’ll wait if you want to hunt through Article II of the Constitution. Congress makes law and laws are what “handle” the economy. All the President can do is veto (or not veto) these laws.

Again … political dullards. And I don’t even have to go into the actual stats about how the economy is booming right along to prove that.

Now for the schizophrenics.

Question 6: All in all, considering the costs to the United States versus the benefits to the United States, do you think the war with Iraq was worth fighting, or not? Do you feel that way strongly or somewhat? Worth Fighting – 34% Not Worth Fighting – 64% No Opinion – 2%

But THEN …

Question 9: Would you support or oppose Congress trying to block Bush’s plan by (b) restricting funding for the war? Support – 46% Oppose – 51% No Opinion – 3%

So let me get this straight. 64% of Americans say that the war in Iraq is not worth fighting BUT 51% support continuing funding and fighting it? It sure is good to know that we have people of principle out there to take these polls!

You’ll notice that Wa-Po/ABC also declined to print the breakdown of who exactly they polled. Especially for political polls these breakdowns are extremely important to make transparent that over sampling and weighting of results (which the press does on a regular basis) was not done.

Perhaps these statistics were left out because they don’t want it to be obvious that this was a push poll?

Contributor's website: http://www.libertyreborn.com

*Content posted by a user may not be completely written by that user. Content from another source is cited in either block quotes, with quotes or with a link to the original material. Content from other sites is posted for commentary and news purposes under fair use. Each user is responsible for their own postings and a particular posting should not be construed as being endorsed by this site or it's owner.