Hold up! Volokh deconstructs the latest Bush-Pelosi popularity numbers and finds Bush wanting:
Well, that's half the numbers. Filling in the other half (which, to Surber's credit, is linked from his post), we see that Bush is at 45% job approval and 54% disapproval, while Pelosi is at 43% favorable and 39% unfavorable. So Pelosi seems ahead of Bush (+4 vs. -9) rather than behind. And the talk in the Surber post about the media's "false ... impressions," media "conventional wisdom [being] flushed down the toilet," and media "lies," seems like something of an overstatement.
The broader lesson: When you see survey results, don't look just to one number.
Darn. But I wanted to be governed by poll! Turns out Pelosi's in charge after all, not President Chimpy!
The abovementioned Surber post here: "Don't quit the day job, Nancy."
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Here is the most interesting paragraph in that whole polling piece:
"Pelosi is viewed as politically liberal by 52% of Americans and moderate by 22%. Just 5% consider her conservative and 20% are not sure."
That "22% moderate" figure tracks very closely with my estimates for percentage of raving left wing moonbats in the population.
IOW - they are so far off the left side of a normal curve, they believe Pelosi is moderate.
Einstein would have explained this distortion as being due to frames of reference.
Just give her time, Jules. And translate "time" as "rope".
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