Poll finds Obama more popular than his stimulus package - CNN.com
That’s far below Obama’s 76 percent approval rating, which is higher than other recent national surveys by other organizations.
“Other polls have shown Obama’s approval rating in the mid to high 60s, but those polls also have 10 to 20 percent saying that they don’t have an opinion on Obama. We have only 1 percent saying that they are undecided about Obama,” Holland said.
Ninety-seven percent of Democrats approve of the way Obama is handling his duties as president, the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll found. That drops to 76 percent for Independents and 50 percent for Republicans.
The only way these numbers make any sense is if the sample of 1000 consists of 600 Democrats, 300 Independents, and 100 Republicans. As I expect a look at the guts of the study would show.
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This is utter nonsense. I have yet to meet a Republican who thinks Obama is doing a good job. This is either selection bias (e.g. they interviewed Olympia Snowe’s staff), a misreporting of the wording of the question they asked (e.g. “given the financial crisis, do you think Obama’s suggestion of a fiscal stimulus could be reasonable?), or an outright lie.
How did they manage that? High pressure on the pollsters part or just deleting most of the undecided/no opinion?
All the others are falsified as only CNN can be right.
Even though the crosstabs are missing, there’s just enough information to create a rough estimate of the polling splits. On the high-D end, it’s 36%D/34%I/30%”R”; on the low-D end, it’s 34%D/39%I/27%”R”. While the “independents” change, the D-to-R split is very consistent at between D+6 and D+7.
Of course, as CalmRising points out; whether there’s 30%”R” or 27%”R”, they’re more likely to be a Specter/Collins/Snowe/McCain “R” than a Colburn one.