Jul 13 2010

Poll Questions

Here’s the headline.

ABC News Poll: Confidence in President Obama Drops, GOP Congress Gains Support.

Accompanied by this poll, that poll and more spin.

Here’s the questions I wished they’d ask:

Why no confidence?

Is President Obama a strong leader?

On a scale of one to ten, ten being the highest, how hard did the President fight for universal health care and a public option?

On a scale of one to ten, ten being the highest, how hard did the President fight for ANYTHING?

I have more questions no one wants to read the answers to.

Why? Because they already know the answers.

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For a Sig line I can't decide between "Sanctimonious Purist", or "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."

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  1. would you like to see asked?

  2. Do politicians even bother to read them? Obviously, if Pres. Obama did, he completely ignored what the the polls were telling him. He caters to the likes of Lieberman and the blue dogs, Baucus, Lincoln and Ben Nelson to the detriment of not just the Democratic Party but the electorate that put him on office.

    I think it is appalling that someone like Sen Lindsay Graham is given an open door to the Oval Office and then literally “spits” on any agreement after he has gotten what he asked.

    I didn’t vote for Obama I saw through the “flowery” rhetoric of “Hope and Change” but those who did are not surprisingly disappointed in his performance. That is being reflected in the polls that Obama and the Democrats dare not ignore.

  3. The Republicans fare worse than Obama in the new ABC/WP poll

    Respondents were asked, for example, how much confidence they have in various leaders to “make the right decisions for the country’s future.” For Obama, the number is 43%. For congressional Democrats, it’s 32%. Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, is a distant third at 26%. Indeed, while support for Obama’s handling on the economy has fallen quite a bit, the poll asked which political party voters “trust to do a better job handling the economy.” Democrats still lead Republicans by eight points.

    Damning praise

  4.   Is waterboarding torture only when it’s done to us?

     Were we wrong to execute Japanese soldiers convicted of waterboarding after WWII?

     When Obama said in the campaign “No one is above the Law…*” was he knowingly lying by omission?

    (the omission being *except the past administration when we’re only interested in looking forward)

     Is incremental change towards Republican-Lite Center-Right policies the direction the country needs to move in?

     Is that what you voted for in 2008?

    It would be fun to see a breakdown of answers by party affiliation. More importantly though, it would be great if the media were even bothering to ask those questions at all.  

  5. that just passed is still very unpopular. Asking the public if they would like the bill better if (1) There were single payer; (2) If there were a public option; or (3) If there was an early buy in to Medicare. But we already knew that the public overwhelmingly wanted a public option, the White House and the Congress ignored that. It was one of the major factors the Democrats lost the Senate seat in MA. Coakley supported the bill without the public option. Polling showed that Democratic voters stayed home and the Independents voted for Brown because he opposed a bill thye did like

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