Poll Finds Rare Optimism in Americans

[spike]

I'm wondering what makes you feel like this poll of Nashville is so much more important than say polls of the entire US?

Seems like you're just desperate for anything at this point.

 

[H2O boy]

i havent had time nor inclination to look anywhere else. im too busy living a life to worry about you 24/7, mr president. i figure other people make sure you and those who voted for you make it in safely from the rain

if it helps, i was researching a completely different topic and followed a link to the stations website as they had a news story dealing with what i was looking for when i ran across the poll. since i was still free the last time i checked, pending congressional matters of course, i responded, and found the results intriguing. i am still allowed to do that i assume without being labeled a potential militant combatant fringe element threat to national security. having family in tennessee i knew nashvilles political leanings and found the results even more revealing

of course i realize i am dealing with intelligence far above my own and in no way should i even fantasize that a result showing 52% disapproval means that more than half the people dont like what hussein is doing. i am just merely hoping that you enlightened people who want to help me financially by raising my taxes can help me see how this 52% negative response is actually a rousing endorsement for the fuckup

 

[2minkey]

anyone who wanted to answer



1. yes. its people who watch wsmv television in nashville, a democrat-majority region of tennessee, who also have enough intelligence to read, operate a computer, and follow directions enough to answer the poll. as of the time i checked it, 25349 people had done so, well over the number required to establish statistical significance of population.



2. is there any reason they should have to? or do we wish to stack the deck?



3. yes, as are so many others



4. i have no idea. i didnt feel compelled to search the entire internet to see if al franken liked the damn thing or not. if you feel led to do so, please, by all means knock yourself out

5. or maybe just maybe the data could speak for itself without being pelosi approved. there is a glimmer of hope that some intelligent life form could maybe look at the numbers and see what is represented therein without needing to place an asterisk beside it and try to denounce the opinions of over 25000 people just so hussein can look good. we dont need that, katie couric et al have the market cornered anyway. so i shall assume that it is far to much to expect one to think for themselves; rather, we need a pundit to spin the numbers in husseins favor befpre we can accept them

fucking sheep

1. great, thanks.
2. it's a standard practice on many polls. it's generally good to screen out freaks. that okay for you?
3. super.
4. sorry, didn't mean to suggest something unduly burdensome like a google search.
5. it's good that we have people like you that can stand above the sheep.

 

[spike]

help me see how this 52% negative response is actually a rousing endorsement

Let me help you out. Look at the OP and here:

"At 100 Days, Obama Approval Broad as Well as Deep
Solid majorities of everyone but Republicans and conservatives approve
by Lydia Saad

PRINCETON, NJ -- As President Barack Obama concludes his first 100 days on the job, Gallup Poll Daily tracking for the week of April 20-26 finds 65% of Americans approving of how he is doing and only 29% disapproving. Obama's average weekly job ratings have varied only slightly thus far, ranging from 61% to 67%."

Sorry H20. It's a rousing endorsement.

 

[H2O boy]

so we trust yours over any others because it says what you want it to say

at least your consistent

 

[H2O boy]

2. it's a standard practice on many polls. it's generally good to screen out freaks. that okay for you?

damn shame we cant do that at the election booth

 

[valkyrie]

H2O boy... Tennessee voted for McCain. They are not a majority democrats.

 

[randomJACKASS]

H2O boy... Tennessee voted for McCain. They are not a majority democrats.

 

[Inkara1]

Tennessee as a whole might have voted for McCain... but California as a whole votes Democrat even though it's only because of the population base in a few left-leaning counties that overcomes the population of 40+ right-leaning counties. Just food for thought.

 

[Frodo]

I got an advance on my paycheck once. Boy, did I feel great....until the next payday that is. I wonder how optimistic the polls will be next April 15th?

 

[Inkara1]

That reminds me... I'm of the opinion that payday loan places should be banned. I'd suggest burning them down too, but the one located nearest to me shares a building with Subway and I don't want to have to drive another mile to get my five dollar footlongs.

 

[spike]

so we trust yours over any others because it says what you want it to say

Nah, what i think we should do is trust your one outlier poll of Nashville only and ignore all others because it almost says what you want it to say.

 

[spike]

Tennessee as a whole might have voted for McCain... but California as a whole votes Democrat even though it's only because of the population base in a few left-leaning counties that overcomes the population of 40+ right-leaning counties. Just food for thought.

So what you mean is that the majority of people in Tennessee voted McCain and the majority of people in California votes Democrat.

 

[2minkey]

Nah, what i think we should do is trust your one outlier poll of Nashville only

no but a real explanation of why it's saying what it is would certainly be interesting.

willing to come up with some ideas, or are you just gonna go for outright dismissal?

 

[Frank Probity]

52% of the respondants gave him a D or worse. and you slobberheads call that a rousing success.

Actually, those H2Oboy considers as slobberheads would call that particular poll questionable as WSMV says: "we make no guarantees about the accuracy of the results"...
Since the poll is, by definition of WSMV, an "entertainment poll not conducted in a scientific fashion" there is good reason to question the results.

come to think i guess you would call it a success

Yes, it is a sucess of sorts because as one sorts through the various polls, the upshot of all other national polls tell a different story. A story of approval. The dates of the polls cited are from 04/21/09 through 04/25/09.

Rasmussen - 56%
Gallup - 63%
CBS/Times - 68%
ABC/Post - 69%
Fox - 62%
Marist College - 55%

i mean some of you cannot even differentiate between a score and a percentile.

The question asked by WSMV was; what grade would you give President Obama on his first 100 days in office.
Since the grades "A" through "F" were the benchmark, and the result posted as percentages based on the premise of what is passing. A "D" is passing and worth 1 credit hour according to Standards of the National University System ergo, the standard of a passing grade and the count of votes that determine the higher percentile have been established.


on your second trip through college, when youre thrilled to get a C because its so much better than your first try. and we wonder how this oatmeal head got elected
in a nation of idiots, its small wonder one got elected leader

For one thing, I have never received a grade lower than "B" in the second go-round. It is disappointing that someone who purports to be bright tries to denigrate others seeking higher education. It removes the mask of how the one making the judgement realistically views higher education while expressing their disdain of those efforts. At first thought that individual falls short in lucidity. But that has been proven already.
Permit me to rephrase the comment re: in a nation of idiots: In a nation of idiots that elected G.W. Bush.
One need not hold a baccalaureate degree to conclude that while the WSMV self-described non-scientific entertainment poll indicates 31% of respondents give a failing grade to President Obama's first 100 days in office is by comparison to six national polls, not representative of the national average and therefore, inaccurate. But this isn't nor should it be a surprise considering those who strive to seek such admitted non-scientific polling as proof their opinion is valid. Those who do are what slobberheads refer to as bottom feeders, a reference to the ones who pick shit with the birds in an effort to find one grain of previously digested but expelled as waste, morsel.
But it is really interesting to see it come full circle.
Perhaps the worse part is the simple truth the rest of us have to suffer with those limited and inaccurate observations gleaned from the manure pile.(sigh)

too bad the rest of us have to suffer through it

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[2minkey]

so, by posting that stuff, you're suggesting that there is an interesting explanation in there? i don't see it... but i do see that all the urine is pooling in the low spots.

 

[spike]

no but a real explanation of why it's saying what it is would certainly be interesting.

I've never been to Nashville. Hard to tell what goes on there.

 

[Inkara1]

So what you mean is that the majority of people in Tennessee voted McCain and the majority of people in California votes Democrat.

If you prefer to keep it that simple, sure. The point I was hoping you would get out of it, though, is that the majority of Tennessee voted for McCain, but that part of Tennessee is more liberal than the state as a whole. The majority (population-wise) of California voted for Obama, but there are parts of the state that are more conservative. Thus, saying that Tennessee went Republican isn't really a good response to "Nashville is a liberal area."

 

[H2O boy]

H2O boy... Tennessee voted for McCain. They are not a majority democrats.

read toots, read. nashville is a majority democrat region of the state from what i hear. i never said word one about the state as a whole

just cant help yourself can ya honey?

 

[H2O boy]

A "D" is passing

funny how perceptions change when one of your boys takes office. all we heard for years was disapproval ratings. anything less than "i approve" was reported as disapproval. NOW you want credit for a D. anybody with a pulse can get a D in a class. even you most likely as long as its entry level remedial stuff

52% of the poll respondants are less than average happy with what hussein is doing. like that better?

now if you want Ds all through life, just keep being stupid. some of us choose to stand above the barely acceptable pit you inhabit so gleefully, on your second attempt no less. so until you can climb out of the primordial ooze of barely scraping by, let the grown ups talk awhile, mkay? heres a lolly, go color something