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Originally posted by VTBrian
shakran: Granted they are very proud of their conservitive nature, but I believe you will find the CNN polls or whatever other liberal agency you would like to use would show the same thing. I simply think many people are so blinded by their partison hatred for the man that they can't see that in reality alot of people like the guy. In fact I would go as far as to say the majority of the people like him.
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One thing about the polls of Presidential approval is many people still hold high regard for the person in office. Doesn't mean they will vote for him, but they hold the repect for the office. Therefore it depends on how the question is asked and the context of the question.
Any poll can yeild the results you want by asking the questions the right way. Or who you use, if you call a list of Conservatives/Liberals, you'll end up with a majority of conservative/liberal views. This has been proven over and over again. Plus, polls are a way to try to shift public opinion. Some people are followers and want to be in the majority no matter what they may personally believe.
So to me polls mean very little.
The only way to run a true poll is to just pick names from a phonebook randomly, but that doesn't usually happen.