CNN Poll - Economy

[Sticky]

Being freeped at the moment:

Does the drop in joblessness mean the U.S. economy is recovering?

Yes 54% 42161 votes

No 46% 35467 votes

Total: 77628 votes

http://www.cnn.com/

[Skittles]

1. the same people who were/are fooled by Bush

are fooled by his lies about the economy

[Mountainman]

2. I don't know why anyone bothers with these polls

They are not scientific polls if they can be freeped or DUed.

What is the use to refering to them? They are meaningless!

[Sticky]

8. The reason I bother

It's because the polls are read live on air .... There are people out there with no internet and no access to DU sentiments - I would like to think they're encouraged by close polls. To hear the media tell it bush is all but in for the next 4/5 years. At least these polls give the more isolated Americans reason to feel better.

[rogerashton]

3. Surrrrrre ....

That's 125000 new jobs. More than expected. But something in the range of 150000 (Bernanke) or 200000 or more are needed to reduce unemployment. (Probably more, to judge from the productivity growth numbers). Thus, we will soon see that unemployment is not down -- maybe up a blip -- and everyone will be saying that we nasty economists faked the jobs data.

Our economy IS recovering -- slowly and without any improvement in unemployment, so far, but that will change. It is a real possibility that there may be recovery enough to take the economics issue of the table next November. Democrats had better be prepared for that.

[livinontheedge]

4. Why on earth do people participate in these worthless internet polls?

I don't get it. The ONLY reason web sites have polls is to raise the hits on their sites to get more ad money. No one on earth believes the answers to the polls because they are not "randomly selected" and thus representative of the population being sampled. Why do people fall for this shit? The web sites must laugh their asses off at the people who vote on these polls.

[random]

5. These are seasonal, holiday jobs and mean nothing...

The same folks will be right back out on there asses in January, unfortunately.

[livinontheedge]

6. Are you sure about that?

I thought these numbers were seasonally adjusted.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Thanks for the notice

Maybe eventually enough participation in CNN's polls will guide them to recognize they have been neglecting the majority of Americans who DON'T approve of Bush's policies, and they might start steering their "news" programming back toward the center.