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Title: Poll: Voters Blame Bush More Than Obama for Economy
Post by: Ptarmigan on July 14, 2011, 06:20:03 PM
Poll: Voters Blame Bush More Than Obama for Economy
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/180255/20110714/bush-george-w-bush-obama-economy-u-s-economy-unemployment-unemployment-rate.htm

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President Barack Obama certainly has his work cut out for him regarding the U.S. economy on the need to create jobs, but a new Qunnipiac University Poll indicates Americans think his predecessor, George W. Bush, is more-responsible for the economy's current condition.

This poll is rather dubious.
Title: Re: Poll: Voters Blame Bush More Than Obama for Economy
Post by: TVDOC on July 14, 2011, 06:28:56 PM
Yeah...... Qunnipiac has a record of rarely coming even close, except for local issues in the NE.......they rank right up there with Pew for objectivity.

doc
Title: Re: Poll: Voters Blame Bush More Than Obama for Economy
Post by: formerlurker on July 14, 2011, 06:37:03 PM
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From July 5 - 11, Quinnipiac University surveyed 2,311 registered voters with a margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.

The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Virginia and the nation as a public service and for research. For more data or RSS feed- http://www.quinnipiac.edu/polling.xml, call (203) 582-5201, or follow us on Twitter.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1624

Title: Re: Poll: Voters Blame Bush More Than Obama for Economy
Post by: TVDOC on July 14, 2011, 06:58:02 PM
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1624



Yeah....I've looked all over their site for the "internals" in any given poll, and they never provide them.  This alone makes their results statistically questionable.

They give you percentiles of demographics, but I want to know how many (or what percent of the total sample) dems, reps, and indies that are included in their count.  This is the skew trick that Gallup uses, oversampling Democrats.

meh.......
Title: Re: Poll: Voters Blame Bush More Than Obama for Economy
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on July 14, 2011, 07:06:52 PM
Q'pac is about as unbiased as the NYT, but even if they were right, all this means is the G. W. Bush would have one Hell of a time getting elected President in 2012...if he was running.

 :lmao: