Oh, but there's no media bias. None
whatsoever. :-(
David
ORourke54.htm
"There is
no virtue in compulsory government charity, and
there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who
portrays himself as
"caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the
government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's
willing to try to
do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a
voter who takes pride
in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good
with his own money
-- if a gun is held to his head."--P.
J.
O'Rourke
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DISREGARD THE AP POLL
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com
on May 11, 2011
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The Associated Press has released a survey, taken on May 5-9,
2011 to measure public approval of Obama after the killing of
Osama bin Laden. The poll purports to show that the president's
job approval has soared to 60 percent. Don't you believe it.
The AP sample contains twice as many Democrats as Republicans
(35% Democrat vs. 18% Republican). While party identification
is, itself, a variable to be determined by polling, the normal
sample usually contains an approximately equal number of
Democrats and Republicans. Lately, Republicans have actually
been slightly in the plurality in most statistically valid
samples.
This AP poll -- with its 2:1 Democratic edge -- is utter
hogwash.
Even by the standards of AP's previous polls, this sample
doesn't stand up. It is vastly more Democratic than any of the
organization's recent polls:
PARTY
IDENTIFICATION IN AP POLLS
| |
Democrat |
Republican |
| October, 2010 |
32% |
25% |
| November, 2010 |
29% |
24% |
| January, 2011 |
28% |
25% |
| March, 2011 |
29% |
20% |
| May, 2011 |
35% |
18% |
Of course, all of these AP polls reflect a decided pro-Democrat
bias compared to most national survey findings. The Associated
Press needs to search its soul -- and consult with its polling
company -- to determine if this bias can be corrected.
Most polls, such as that by Rasmussenreports.com, suggest that
Obama has, indeed, gotten a single digit bounce from the bin
Laden killing. Rasmussen has his approval now at 48% after it
had languished in the low 40s for some months.
In the long term, this bounce won't mean anything. The effects
of unemployment and inflation will soon reassert themselves and
voters will lower their ratings of Obama. Over the next few
months we may expect a steady, slow downward movement as the
economic troubles drag him lower.
But the bin Laden killing has one important impact on our
national debate: Terrorism is no longer a weak spot for Obama.
Despite his rules against harsh interrogation and the
limitations he has placed on intelligence gathering, unless we
are hit again by a major terror attack, Obama will always have
the shooting of bin Laden to point to as a defense against
attacks on this issue.
That's too bad. It is clear that waterboarding and other harsh
interrogation techniques had a key role in providing the
information that led intelligence operatives to Obama's conduit
with the outside world. Following this man led them to bin
Laden's lair. Blocked from using these techniques in the
future, American intelligence officials will not be able to
duplicate this intelligence coup as long as Obama's rules are in
effect. Who knows what mayhem we will not be able to discover
-- or prevent -- as a result?
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