Rasmussen Answers

Kent's got me on this one. I don't know how I'll survive. He used a poll other than Rasmussen to prove the Republican Party was not the most unpopular organization in America. NPR's latest has the GOP one point ahead on their generic ballot. I'm proud of him.

Then mind boggling I know, he uses Gallup to show Obama is at an all time low. Yes 53% proves Obama is unpopular. Too bad it's double what George Bush was but that's ancient history now. What's interesting is if you go through his archives there isn't one single post about Bush's gutter approvals. Quite the contrary really. He uses Bush's historically low approvals to prove he was a true leader. Kent's same but messed up logic doesn't apply to Obama, however.

Anyway, Eric Kleefield spoke to Scott Rasmussen about his new Presidential Index that Kent loves to use to prove Obama is unpopular, and he defended it by saying it measures the intensity of feeling. So Rasmussen even admits it's not a gauge of overall approval just feelings of intensity. In the Republican Fantasy World that's how President Obama's job approval gets measured, by feelings of intensity and not the historical yes or no. Too bad for Kent he already admitted that he "disagrees with polling methodology that pretends we need two different categories of approval." Uhhhh that's my point Kent.

*Update:

One of the reasons why it's inaccurate to create a brand new method at which to measure President Obama is because it gives wingers like Kent reason to believe a false reality. For instance, here's Kent explaining why he stood behind the Presidential Index (before he discredited it that is):

I'm taking the strongly approve number as the primary gauge of Obama's full approval and comparing it with Bush's overall approval ratings according to the WaPo link I cited yesterday.

Bush left office with an overall 33% approval rating, one point higher than Obama's current strong approval number.

The real world just doesn't work that way. In the Fantasy World, Rasmussen creates a brand new measurement for Obama, which gives off the appearance he's unpopular, and Kent-- amongst others I'm sure-- gladly admit they apply two different standards. If we used the Index to measure George Bush his would be -50. But we can't do that because like Kent says, Bush gets to use his overall approval. All Rasmussen has done is give wing nuts, the same people who constantly push conspiracy theories to discredit the President of the United States, a graph to link to. These are brilliant people I'm telling ya.