Comments on: If the Left is Winning, Then Why is there Fear in Their Eyes?

By: Trouble

Trouble — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:43:02 +0000

Maybe we’ll stop subsidizing the Red States.

We out here should be so lucky… as it would enable us to set our own tax and regulatory structures free from Federal greenmail. After a few years of this, you could say bye bye to the NYSE and hello to the Omaha Stock Exchange.

Seriously though: the 'subsidies' about which the moonbats prattle on are entirely attributable to military installations. Nice try liberals; show work next time.

By: Obi's Sister

Obi's Sister — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:00:34 +0000

Thanks for the link, Jimmie!

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:55:40 +0000

Hardly. Rasmussen is very clearly not measuring the President's approval. They are measuring a difference between strong approval and disapproval ratings. It's not hard to find their methodology on their site. To say otherwise is to stretch the point to breaking.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:40:05 +0000

"measures Pres. Obama’s approval in single digits now" is what I said, and carefully so.

I know that Rasmussen is doing this purposefully, and that it's no secret. It's what people pay for.

It's also pretty clear that you know what I meant, so no, I didn't move anything.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:16:09 +0000

You want to break the scoop that Rasmussen is generally a conservative pollster? I'm afraid you'd be a few years late on that as you would on the scoop that Zogby is generally liberal.

The problem with your argument is that you still haven't shown me anyone who has said that the President's approval rating is in the single digits, which was your initial claim. You've moved the goalpost nicely, though.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:09:51 +0000

So why the switch with Rasmussen between their Bush and Obama reporting ya think? The gap between approve and disapprove using Rasmussen's numbers are more useless, and I might add deceptive, than with other polls because they separate the responses out into 4 categories. If Rasmussen did approve/disapporove like other polls, it at least would be at +9 instead of +1 but still a huge outlier.

By: Worm is the word… « DaTechguy’s Blog

Worm is the word… « DaTechguy’s Blog — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:01:24 +0000

[...] pointed in the direction to do so. Well apparently the Sundries Shack via the green room sees the same potential that Rush and I do: The thing is, the left hears the distant rumble of America’s real muscle and [...]

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:46:46 +0000

You've seriously never heard a news report about the gap between a pol's approval and disapproval numbers ever before? Never, ever? Hell, it was one of the stories of the Democratic primaries. If I heard one story about how the gap between Hillary's App/Disapp numbers was small and Obama's large, I heard a hundred. So Rasmussen has given it a more graceful name than "Gap between ratings". Good on them.