Courtesy Mr. Smith.
Posted on 10/13/2013 11:28:06 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
If reports of Republican panic on Capitol Hill are accurate, a big reason is likely the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal survey, which purports to show the public overwhelmingly disapproves of the GOP's role in the government shutdown.
And on the surface, the news does indeed look grim for the GOP, as explained by NBC's political editor, Mark Murray:
"The Republican Party has been badly damaged in the ongoing government shutdown and debt limit standoff, with a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finding that a majority of Americans blame the GOP for the shutdown, and with the party's popularity declining to its lowest level.
"By a 22-point margin (53 percent to 31 percent), the public blames the Republican Party more for the shutdown than President Barack Obama – a wider margin of blame for the GOP than the party received during the poll during the last shutdown in 1995-96."
And worst of all, from the Republican perspective anyway, is this:
"And one year until next fall’s midterm elections, American voters prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress to a Republican-controlled one by eight percentage points (47 percent to 39 percent), up from the Democrats’ three-point advantage last month (46 percent to 43 percent)."
But there is much less here than at first appears. For one thing, the survey is based on interviews with "adults," not "likely voters," which significantly lessens its usefulness in predicting the shutdown's impact on the 2014 election.
The sample size is only 800 when 1,000 or more is preferable because it usually boosts the confidence level in the results and lowers the margin of error.
But what really detracts from its usefulness is the fact the survey, which was conducted jointly for NBC and the Wall Street Journal by Democratic pollster Peter Hart and GOP pollster Bill McInturff, uses a seriously flawed sample.
As BlueCollarPerspective's Charles Hawkins points out, the sample is heavily over-weighted by the presence of government workers — 20 percent, which is two-and-a-half-times the rate for the general public — and there too many Democrats and too few Republicans being interviewed.
From a statistical perspective, public opinion surveys absolutely depend upon randomness in sample selection. The most accurate survey is produced when every potential respondent has exactly the same chance of being selected as every other potential respondent.
It's impossible to achieve perfect randomness, but the closer a sample gets to it, the more accurate it will be. Hart and McInturff are reputable pollsters, so it appears they simply drew what amounts to an outlier survey sample.
That makes the survey all but useless as support for strategic decisions by anybody involved in the shutdown debate. But it is perfectly consistent with the conventional wisdom of the traditional media, which is heavily skewed against the Republicans, so expect to hear it cited repeatedly in the next few days.
Go here for the complete NBC/Wall Street Journal survey result, and click here for the Hawkins analysis.
Yes they will cave. They are squishes and the Democrats know it. The only think I look forward to now is watching RINOs lose.
The GOP-E isn’t “spineless”....they actively love and admire Obama, and want Obamacare to stay so that they can play with it whenever they get into power.
The next election is a year away.
They show that they can be hard and vicious fighters....when going after Tea Party Conservative Republicans.
Courtesy Mr. Smith.
Courtesy Mr. Smith.
I hope you saw my rant near the end of your previous thread. I posted it near the time you posted this. Thank you for posting this beautiful supporting documentation.
Thanks Cincinatus’ Wife.
Media Pushing Bogus Polls To Force GOP Cave
10/13/2013 | Me
Posted on 10/13/2013 1:50:53 AM PDT by Viennacon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3078263/posts
I DID!
:)
I have to doubt the veracity of any poll NBC (the Nothing But Communist network) had a hand in.
The next election is a year away.
I neither believe, nor disbelieve this poll. It would not surprise me if it were true though. We have a majority in this country now who are quite happy to let others think for them.
Then read this and be informed about how it was done.
People like to think that the WSJ is not Liberal and deceptive. That is not true. They are. And we all know what NBC is. This is a disinformation poll designed to sway opinion. Nothing more.
The Mainstream media, from Network News to Entertainment shows, to Late-Night comics, are just pounding on the Reps.
We knew this was coming, and we frankly have nothing to counter.
Our #1 Local NBC News station has been running TWO Shutdown sob stories with every local newscast.
Looking through a twenty-something’s phone on Friday night, she had AT LEAST 50 Tweets with the #GOPshutdown hashtag, and not a single tweet that countered it.
Nothing makes a rabbit run for the hole faster than the hunter showing him the gun! The old media got exactly what they wanted from this worthless poll, the Republican RINO’s are surrendering, waving the white flag and running for their holes faster than a jack rabbit with a coyote after him!
There are times when you simply cannot allow polls to drive decisions particularly political ones. Kudlow is a financial whiz but when it comes to runing political campaigns should be ignored.He was wrong about Romney and he’s wrong here. The “rules” are completly different.
It blows my mind when I hear guys like Kudlow who on his 10/12 Saturday radio show cite a survey using 20% of those working for the firm its evaluating the products from,and expecting an objective answer.
Then redresses a caller because he attempted to cite the NBC/ WSJ poll composition.Dismisses what the caller is saying and attempts to shoot him down by citing other polls which differed from the NBC/WSJ result by 10 percentage points.Because in his mind the caller was wrong.
Well Mr.Kudlow, You’re wrong.
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