Comments on: Polling Continues To Raise A Weighting Issue

[foobarbaz-2009]

In the words of Rush Limbaugh, another example of why you are the "See" BS network. When are you going to do a story on where the forged documents came from, hmm??!

[factckr]

While I can appreciate the arguments being made, the truth is that the weight made little difference. Even if you equally weight all three groups, the percentage only comes out to roughly 35%, so that can't hold water. The thing that hurt Republicans in this poll was not the weighting...indeed, it was to be blunt...Republicans. Their group dropped by 11%...That is what hurt the overall rating far more than the weighting for the overall poll. I listened to Rush today as well...and then I did some mathematical analysis and unfortunately his arguments don't hold water this time. The President is at an all time low just about no matter how you skew the results.

[peterbaldwin-2009]

No doubt about it: the Republican trolls win - hands down. And just in, the &*%#&@ poll shows that Bush's popularity is now back up over 60%.

[foobarbaz-2009]

This poll was such a sham. Clearly biased. And only 27% of the respondents were Republicans? Give me a break. No, I'd say this poll was taken by housewives in Cupertino, CA.

[djman1142]

Let's face it. The CBS bias against Bush and Republicans in general is deep-seated and pervasive throughout its organization. Getting rid of a few bad apples like Mapes, Rather, and John Roberts, is not going to prevent this bias from leaking through all CBS's News Operations.

[foobarbaz-2009]

Nearly 2x democrats polled to Republicans and the so called "independants" voted with the dems almost universally. Where was this poll taken, San Francisco community college?

[theright]

Rush Limbaugh just got through trashing this poll. He has some good points. For example, the question about the NSA spying program gives the impression that the NSA is spying on any domestic call. This is not the case. One the the callers must be outside of the U.S. Rush charges that this was deliberate on CBS's part to make Bush look bad. The other option is that CBS had good intentions but is incompetent. The poll question should have had the word "overseas" in it.

[ja53]

If you want to find out how many people like peanut butter then the CBS methodology makes sense. But lets say you want to measure support of the military. Using the CBS method would permit the exclusion of anyone from the military. When there is a sensitive question at issue it makes no sense than to fully correct for the most pertinent factors. This is a no brainer and anyone that knows what CBS is doing would find it wrong. So far, many don't. Beyond that, the poll included some highly misleading statements (e.g. not mentioning that the subject wiretaps were for calls between the U.S. and foreign countries and at least one person was a known or suspected terrorist).

[kourym]

i find it amusing that CBS tries to rationalize its Liberal bias by stating the weighting system they use. No matter how you slice it 41% of respondents were DEMS and only 27% were REPS. CBS thinks they are representing the people with there bias, but in fact are alienating most of their former viewers. Enjoy losing more market share to FOX News.

[phoenixandy]

The Cook Political Report/RT Strategies Poll that was conducted on Feb. 23-26, 2006 (about the same time as the CBS News Poll) showed Bush with a 54% disapproval rating and a 40% approval rating. Exactly 1,000 adults nationwide were polled and it had a margin of error of about 1 3.1 percentage points. So while CBS News claims there is a 25-point gap between those who approve and disapprove, the Cook Political Report/RT Strategies Poll indicates the gap is only 14 points.