2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCBS poll - Obama at 36% favorability? WTF?
How do Dems get blamed for Republican obstruction?
Republicans are taking the Dems stance from last summer - and it's good?
Is this real?
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)MgtPA
(1,022 posts)democrat_patriot
(2,774 posts)A chart on Morning Joe (CBS/New York Times?)
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)brush
(53,836 posts)I'm pretty sure they have that reversed. I just saw a likability poll on another network yesterday that had the President as 70% to 30% more likable than Romney.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)unc70
(6,117 posts)On a quick glance at your link. It looks like mentioning "haven't enough information" or similar options shifts the unfavorables higher. Compare different poll questions at roughly the same time. Wonder if that is true in general.
qazplm
(3,626 posts)and would explain why they found Romney ahead, there is no reason to believe anything has happened to cause a 10+ decrease in his favorability ratings.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)I've never seen it that low. I'd like to see the CBS demos.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)but I'd like to see what the partisan divide was, etc.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)Yeah I question this CBS poll because they had Romney up by several points in handling the economy. Where I thought Obama was ahead on this because of all the questions about Romey's outsourcing at Bain, his not releasing his tax returns, and the fact that the majority don't blame Obama but are still blaming Bush for the economy.
I heard about this poll on Current during Bill Press.
I am hoping CBS is full of bullcrap. If not those people answering are complete morons.
I am trying not to let the polls worry me at this point. I think they are mostly full of crap.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)so of course he is going to get some of the blame.
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)quoting a CBS poll on NBC. Poor taste Joe
Igel
(35,348 posts)Probably an outlier.
After all, they go for calculated margin of error that means something like "if we ran this poll as we did 1000 times, we'd expect 950 or so to be within the margins of error that we publish." If they're assumptions are wrong in adjusting their data, if their sample was skewed, then the resulting number is just wrong. If that's the case, it'll be contrasted with lots of other polls giving other results or with the same company's polling next time 'round. Flukes aren't just flatworms.
Obama's favorability is usually in the 43-45% range, with some polls consistently a point or two lower and some 3-4 points higher.