Comments on: Don’t Let The Door Hit You http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/11/10/dont-let-the-door-hit-you/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:57:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PG http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/11/10/dont-let-the-door-hit-you/#comment-126827 PG Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:41:38 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11332#comment-126827 noonespecial, Really, you have statistics that break out the Democratic part of Congress from the Republican part and show that the Democratic members of Congress have a lower approval rating than the Republican members of Congress? Or did you mean to say that Congress as a whole has lower approval ratings than Bush? As has been noted ad infinitum, here and elsewhere, Congress generally will have lower approval ratings than the executive because it containts both parties, so both Republicans and Democrats can gripe at it. It's unusual for a president to have approval ratings that are significantly lower than the percentage of self-identified members of his party among the voters. Also, the last CNN/Opinion Research poll I saw (the one taken 10/3-5/08) gave Congress as a whole a disapproval rating of 76%. So I don't even know where you're getting the statistic that Congress has the lower approval rating. If it's from a different organization's poll, you have to compare that to the same organization's poll for the president as well; you can't compare across polling organizations because of their different methodologies. noonespecial,

Really, you have statistics that break out the Democratic part of Congress from the Republican part and show that the Democratic members of Congress have a lower approval rating than the Republican members of Congress? Or did you mean to say that Congress as a whole has lower approval ratings than Bush? As has been noted ad infinitum, here and elsewhere, Congress generally will have lower approval ratings than the executive because it containts both parties, so both Republicans and Democrats can gripe at it. It’s unusual for a president to have approval ratings that are significantly lower than the percentage of self-identified members of his party among the voters.

Also, the last CNN/Opinion Research poll I saw (the one taken 10/3-5/08) gave Congress as a whole a disapproval rating of 76%. So I don’t even know where you’re getting the statistic that Congress has the lower approval rating. If it’s from a different organization’s poll, you have to compare that to the same organization’s poll for the president as well; you can’t compare across polling organizations because of their different methodologies.

]]> By: noonespcecial http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/11/10/dont-let-the-door-hit-you/#comment-126800 noonespcecial Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:55:04 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11332#comment-126800 really? why not talk about the congress? how about this? The only thing lower than the Bush approval ratings is the Democratic congress really? why not talk about the congress? how about this?

The only thing lower than the Bush approval ratings is the Democratic congress

]]> By: anotherbozo http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/11/10/dont-let-the-door-hit-you/#comment-126768 anotherbozo Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:10:36 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11332#comment-126768 And CNN kept repeating this morning that Obama was meeting with Bush today, "even though he repeatedly bashed him during the campaign." Sigh. And CNN kept repeating this morning that Obama was meeting with Bush today, “even though he repeatedly bashed him during the campaign.”

Sigh.

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