Afghanistan, Healthcare, New Orleans Drag Obama Down
Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president's performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis, and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he see's the president's week ending.
John Zogby on Week 40:
"We found a slight dip back under 50 percent in our latest polling of Obama's job approval, with slippage coming from Democrats, Independents, and the under 30 First Global(tm) generation. His deliberations on whether to send more troops to Afghanistan are leading to impatience and doubts from many quarters. On healthcare, liberals want him to come out forcefully for a public option and put some pressure on Democratic senators who stand in the way of achieving what has become the left's litmus test. His trip to New Orleans seemed to backfire and substantiate some people's accusations that Obama is all talk and little action. We'll see if the administration's announcement to limit executive pay at banks that benefited from TARP will be a hit with voters.
Grade: C+
Last week B
John Zogby is president and CEO of Zogby International, a public opinion, research, and business solutions firm with experience in more than 70 countries. Founded and led by Zogby since 1984, Zogby International specializes in telephone, Internet, and face-to-face survey research and analysis for corporate, political, nonprofit, and governmental clients. The firm is headquartered in Utica, N.Y. John Zogby also is the author of The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House).
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How can polls be significant?
Polls can never collect 100% accurate opinions from enormous numbers of people. it's proved that respondents often lie when polled. Some folks change their minds a week after they're polled, having had new input. Gallup is a religious person who understandably hopes to show increase in church attendance. Poll employees never say "This is a Far Right poll, to show voters how many nice folk like you are going back to church." Argument against tax-paid health care stalls because Prolife churches want to force women to produce ongoing generations of tithers. Of course, a poll taken to benefit Prolife will "prove increasing numbers of people are against Prochoice Obama." Those polled may not even have bothered to vote, or they could all belong to one of many Prolife groups under different names. One of Obama's first & finest acts was to make a law forcing bosses to pay women the same wages for men for the same work. He made himself a One Man Equal Rights Amendment. Everyone connected to a working woman will benefit from his truly magnificent equalization of wages.
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He stops and explains distinctive directions to choose. At
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Zogby?!?!?!
Zogby isn't a pollster any more. The push poll he ran for John Ziegler just reinforced the fact that he's a political prostitute. Besides, his numbers haven't been reliable for years.
The only reason USNWR would run a Zogby notapoll is if you have a politica agenda you are trying to push. There are honorable, dependable pollsters out there. Use one of them and you might have some credibility.
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