get the hint?

[ChrisCantSkate]

well, it very well could be within 3% of what the whole country thinks, its just i dont trust these small polls that make these types of claims. im sorry 1,100 people to me is way to small to try and get an idea of what america thinks. there are 1,100 different types of people in america, over half i would bet dosntparticipate in polls.

now on the flip side i would agree with most the numbers, i dont approve the policy we have going right now, i wouldnt say i disaprove bush all together, but there are quite a few isssues i have to scratch my head about, important ones. enough to not vote anyone from his administration in 08. (go McCain!)

but when looking at statistics, at least for me, i see this and see it terribly small, and thus flawed. its just what news stations (all, not trying to isolate CNN) do to make the stats work in their favor. i hate news polls, and i put no stock im them no matter what they say when dealing with issues so large with such a small sample group

[GT40FIED]

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.