Gallup poll spin?

[kansasblue]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=18412


Gallup says on September 07, 2005

"the public seems on balance only mildly critical" of Katrina response

and also that

"Forty-two percent say Bush did a "bad" (18%) or "terrible" (24%) job"


There's a major diaster and 42% of country thinks you're doing bad or terrible on the recover efforts.

This is normally a time people would rally around their leader.
42% say he sucks!

How does that come out as mildly critical?

[MADem]

1. You suck a dead dog's balls is only MILDLY CRITICAL????

What are they puffing over at Gallup?????

[sendero]

2. Gallup is..

... was and always will be a repug-spinning joke of a pollster. They have as much credibility as Bush** himself.

[valerief]

6. Bingo!

[laureloak]

3. Ha! I see a trick I use when I want to minimize the impact of

a number - I spell it out.

<snip>
"Despite widespread criticism of the response by Bush and, separately, the federal government, to the problems caused by the hurricane, the public seems on balance only mildly critical.
Forty-two percent say Bush did a "bad" (18%) or "terrible" (24%) job, but 35% rate his response as either "great" (10%) or "good" (25%)."
<snip>

See how they wrote out 42% but showed the lesser % in numbers. The reader tends to only pick up the numbers and not the spelled out figures.

[MaggieSwanson]

4. Olbermann did a good job of reporting the Gallup poll...

...put up a screenshot of *'s approval ratings right after 9/11 for balance. Back then his approval rating was 90%.

Oh, how the (mighty?) have fallen. It was a good reminder that a crisis that supposedly gets people to rally around their leader can sometimes bite * in the ass. 'Course I've never thought of him as a leader.

[MADem]

7. 90 percent?? Shit, I thought he was an ass back then, too!!!

That apparently puts me in the TOP TEN PERCENT of American citizens, those that can distinguish chickenshit from chicken salad!!!!

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. They only poll nazi's

[philarq]

8. but that means that 58% think its great --swell

so therefore you get hit over the head with --Why do you HATE America--

Just wait --when the actuall regular polling comes out it Cannot be good for the Reds in Washington--

[MADem]

9. No, 21 percent said NEITHER GOOD NOR BAD

They probably haven't switched off the Soap Opera channel to realize that a place called New Orleans actually flooded...

The happy camper number is 35%.