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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:07 PM
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Today's Gallup Tracking Poll...too good to put on the subject line:
Edited on Thu Jun-02-11 12:09 PM by jenmito
53% approve, 39% disapprove!: http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx :bounce:
Meanwhile, Mitt is talking about what a failure Obama has been. :rofl:
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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:09 PM
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1. Mitts magic underwear is malfunctioning
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:19 PM
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4. Let him keep flip-floppin' along...
let him go on long enough, he'll say Obama is a great success.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:51 PM
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14. would that be caused by his underwear?
I guess he wears Joe Boxers.
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 02:29 PM
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18. I think the poster was referring to his Mormon Temple Garment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:47 PM
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26. :>)
:hi:
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:58 PM
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29. ...
I wouldn't put it past him. He doesn't know which way is up. :hi: :D
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jezebel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:09 PM
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2. that is awesome, but what the heck is up with Gallups wild swings in the last week. I at least give
Rasmussen credit for consistency.
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Doctor Hurt Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 08:39 PM
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52. You shouldn't give Rasmussen credit for consistency
Edited on Tue Jun-07-11 08:39 PM by Doctor Hurt
randomly sampling a population should produce wild swings 5-10% of the time.
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greiner3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 08:56 PM
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53. Me thinks;
You need to take a course in Stats.

Just saying.
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Doctor Hurt Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 09:10 PM
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54. I don't have to take a course in stats. I teach one.
Edited on Tue Jun-07-11 09:15 PM by Doctor Hurt
If you're sampling from a population, normally distributed, you are going to get significant departures from the mean value at a rate equal to one's significance threshold.

Since most researchers use a threshold criterion of 5%-10%, Then 1 out of every 20 to 1 out of every 10 samples will show significant excursions from the mean.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:10 PM
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3. 3 years ago Mittens lost to the guy who lost to Obama
You keep using that word Mittens. I do not think it means what you think it means
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-11 06:42 AM
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42. Yeah, but that wasn't THIS Mittens..
Edited on Fri Jun-03-11 06:46 AM by polmaven
This is the NEW mitt.....Again.
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:21 PM
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5. Obama is such a failure, almost no sane GOP member wants to run against him.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:25 PM
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6. Yup. And Romney may not be sane, either, with his incoherent rambling about Obama
being a failure, an apologist, someone who doesn't love America, etc.
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:32 PM
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He's hilarious.
And the absolute best part is that the fundies hate his guts with a passion.

It will be great fun watching him twist himself into a pretzel to try and win them over.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:34 PM
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9. He's trying to connect with the teabaggers talking about the 10th Amendment,
freedom, loving America, blah blah blah.
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:45 PM
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12. He'll be in Iowa soon, wearing flannel and riding in a pickup, in summer time.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:50 PM
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13. Yup. Eugene Robinson joked about how he tried the "unbuttoned" look without
a tie, but the shirt collar wouldn't even open up. He and Chris Matthews were cracking up. :D
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 02:22 PM
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17. Maybe he will wear a barn coat like Scott Brown, rather than flannel
Maybe with a pickup, he won't have to put his dog on the roof. My youngest, a liberal, still thinks the worst part of that story is that his sons told it because they actually thought it made their family look good!
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:30 PM
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7. Nice 4 point bump!
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:32 PM
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8. 7-point swing (including a -3 in his disapproval)! n/t
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:59 PM
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24. Yes, indeed!
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:35 PM
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10. Woo-hoo. And Mittens is on track to sound as nutty as Trump.
Edited on Thu Jun-02-11 12:36 PM by CakeGrrl
The approval could inch up the more these nuts open their mouths.

:rofl:
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 12:37 PM
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11. Mitt sounds ridiculous...
and looks ridiculous, too, with his "Just For Men" dye job, leaving just the "right" amount of gray on the sides to look "sophisticated." :rofl:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 01:05 PM
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15. It must be bizarre to live in Bizarro World and try to function in the real world
Poor Mittens. He's so lost he'll never find himself.
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 02:19 PM
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16. The more Sarah Palin is in the news, the higher Pres. Obama's
approval rating :-) (and the lower the disapproval rating).
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 02:51 PM
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22. That might be the only positive thing about having her around.
This is what happens when the Tea Party has them by the short hairs. The more they out-pander each other, the more the President becomes evident as the only adult in the room.
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 02:36 PM
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19. Scoot over Jen... Yahooee
:bounce::bounce:

Poor old Mittens.. Palin is 100 yards away from him.. stealing his thunder.. did you get the stats on that guy.. When he was gov. his state was number 47 and while in office he had only one of 5 states that did not create jobs or recover from the previous recession.

Talk about a lot of hot air
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 02:42 PM
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20. I sure will!
Edited on Thu Jun-02-11 02:47 PM by jenmito
Yup-Sarah just won't give Mitt a break. And the whole "road trip" was TODD'S idea, says Sarah. :rofl:

ETA-Yup, I saw the stats about the state of Mitt's state.
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 02:50 PM
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21. I see roger ailes fingerprints all over the palin bus fiasco..
ailes hates romney and what better way to derail his announcement than to send sarah there in a bus .. she is there just to put the kabosh on romney.. he he he.. that is why she did not have to resign while hinting at a run. she was off doing her overlords' dirty work

oh republican party, you are reaping what you sowed when you let those right wing media whackadoodles take charge of your party.. they are now your who you answer to,


nothing makes me laugh harder than seeing one of them kneeling before rush begging his forgiveness..
:rolf:
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:05 PM
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23. I agree with you...
Edited on Thu Jun-02-11 03:06 PM by jenmito
and I bet more and more people do, too. That's why Obama's approval is rising again! The comparisons are hilarious (bad for the Repubs.).
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-11 05:56 AM
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41. Add Rudy to that list of Ailes toadies dispersed to kneecap Mitt.
:popcorn:
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:47 PM
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25. Kick.
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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:49 PM
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27. Wowza!!
WTF is going on?? Did he take out another terrorist?

Love that bounce!!
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:52 PM
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28. Maybe it's the
Edited on Thu Jun-02-11 06:56 PM by jenmito
circus that's come to town known as "the Repub. candidates for president"?
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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:59 PM
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30. Yeah, that could be a big part of it.. Obama keeps looks better and better..
especially in comparison to the loser GOPers who seem to want to destroy America.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 07:05 PM
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31. I don't really see what else it could be...
unless there are people who just heard that Obama got bin Laden. :)
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aaaaaa5a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 07:32 PM
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32. I love the number but….


whats going on with Gallup? We are seeing wild swings in polling numbers that seem unusually for a 3 day rolling poll.

He pushed up +7 (4 positive/ 3 negative) in one day!


Am I allowed to now call Obama's 46% approval rating from a few days ago an outlier?
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 07:43 PM
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33. I know...
I wonder the same thing. MAYBE people liked the fact that he met with 240 Repubs. and took questions from them? Maybe they just appreciate Obama more after getting a glimpse of the Repub. circus?

I'm betting I WON'T be starting a thread about his approval numbers tomorrow. We'll see...
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aaaaaa5a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 08:22 PM
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34. Good call.


You have to never get too high or too low when you are talking about the daily Gallup approval rating. Especially here lately.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 08:41 PM
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35. Yeah...
but sometimes we take what we get, and today was a good day.
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Tarheel_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 09:14 PM
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36. k&r
:kick:
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 09:57 PM
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37. I'm not so sure that's a good thing
just as i'm not sure Obama is anything close to a good leader. EOM.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 11:22 PM
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38. You mean, the man who got Osama and saved a big chunk of the American auto industry?
That guy? The one Mr. Hedge Fund Venture Capitalist thinks failed America? That one?

GEEZ. What a dingdong.
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Eagle Mall Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-11 01:59 AM
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39. Hater-free threads such as this are to be cherished these days.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-04-11 02:15 PM
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Eagle Mall Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-04-11 02:36 PM
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44. do you support Obama hate? because you seem to be a little defensive.
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Vanje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-06-11 01:34 PM
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49. -_--_---
Edited on Mon Jun-06-11 01:36 PM by Vanje
Whatever ya say, Tom.

I had taken you for granite.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 08:13 PM
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51. .
:spray:
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-03-11 02:44 AM
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40. I'm not sure about the rest of the country; being that I'm in Florida..
but its All Casey Anthony trial all the time down here. Uninterrupted testimony and run down on local channels and some national like HLN... If that's the case, no one is paying attn to what the Pres. is doing or not... blah, blah.. yeah good job.. he met the prince and princess.. now get off my phone, Casey's mom is on the stand.
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JAnthony Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-04-11 03:01 PM
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45. I think the rest of the country already thinks she's guilty, and don't ..
Edited on Sat Jun-04-11 03:02 PM by JAnthony
care about her anymore. We're more interested in a guy's underwear pictures, Sarah Palin's Paul Revere saga's and John Edwards' infidelity!

Presiden Obama? He's just a great guy doing his job in spite of the Republican idiots all around !
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-04-11 08:03 PM
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46. Its 48/44 now...nt
Who takes these polls, I do not think I have ever taken a gallop.
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aaaaaa5a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-04-11 09:15 PM
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47. I think Gallup has some internal questions to ask themselves...
Edited on Sat Jun-04-11 09:16 PM by aaaaaa5a

I don't pretend to be an all mighty, mathematical, polling expert, but there is something dearly wrong with numerical swings this drastic in what is suppose to be a rolling 3 day average. Remember the poll only takes 1 day into consideration each day. The other 2 days are already factored in. 1 day can't be enough to swing numbers this drastically all the time.

What is Obama doing? Polling 80% one day? And 15% the next? With no apparent news stories or political events to justify the real high marks or the real low marks?

I love Gallup. I consider it the Gold standard. But my faith has been shaken in their numbers the last few weeks. They make no sense at all.
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-11 11:33 AM
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48. Yup, it is very questionable indeed...nt
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Doctor Hurt Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-11 07:06 AM
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55. 1 day can certainly be enough to swing these averages
1 outlier day drops off, or an outlier rolls onto the sample. As I noted above, it is not improbable to have bad outliers every 20 days of sampling or so, and slightly less extreme shifts will happen much more often.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-08-11 09:41 AM
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56. A closer look at the numbers are telling. Only 37% approve on his
handling of the economy. He is also very low on the budget and immigration.

His job approval is being sustained almost entirely on his handling of terrorism and war.

This does not bode well. As teh campaigns ramp up, the repukes and media will focus on the economy. People will increasingly care more about the economy.
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