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GT40FIED · 12-19-2006, 05:14 PM

It'd be one thing if every poll out there used something like 10,000 people and this one was using 1,000, but really just about every opinion poll done by anyone uses right around 1,000 people. So the polls that gave Bush good reviews say 2 or 3 years ago were the same size as these. It's not like they used a deliberately small sample to skew the numbers.

I'm also not quite sure what's so hard to believe about those numbers. The really low percentage (28%) is reserved only for approval of the war. Really I'd be surprised if it was that high. If the random sample of people I've had conversations with are any indicator I would think it'd be in single digit or low teens. The poll lists the president's overall approval at 36% which is actually up from some previous numbers. I think it was 32% at one point.

So yeah...I guess you can take it with a grain of salt and all that, but I don't see any reason to doubt the results.

12-19-2006, 05:14 PM	#2
GT40FIED Best...mod...ever Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: At the end of the longest line Age: 43 Posts: 7,451	It'd be one thing if every poll out there used something like 10,000 people and this one was using 1,000, but really just about every opinion poll done by anyone uses right around 1,000 people. So the polls that gave Bush good reviews say 2 or 3 years ago were the same size as these. It's not like they used a deliberately small sample to skew the numbers. I'm also not quite sure what's so hard to believe about those numbers. The really low percentage (28%) is reserved only for approval of the war. Really I'd be surprised if it was that high. If the random sample of people I've had conversations with are any indicator I would think it'd be in single digit or low teens. The poll lists the president's overall approval at 36% which is actually up from some previous numbers. I think it was 32% at one point. So yeah...I guess you can take it with a grain of salt and all that, but I don't see any reason to doubt the results. __________________ 1984 1/2 Mustang GT350 #842, Faster than you...nuff said Anna Fan Club President/Dictator Someday, in the event that mankind actually figures out what it is that this world actually revoles around, thousands of people are going to be shocked and perplexed that it was not them. Sometimes this includes me. "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell Welcome to the new Amerika