Rounding error

Timmy’s Super Secret break down of the Bad Bush Poll Numbers:

A picture named Timmy-Today-bad-polls.jpgTimmy’s “super secret” break down of the Bad Bush Poll Numbers

Yikes, talk about bad poll numbers. What the heck, the President doesn’t look at this stuff anyway.

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As Think Progress notes: Apparently, it isn’t working so well. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that just 2 percent of African-Americans approve of his leadership. NBC’s Tim Russert — who called the number “a dramatic setback” — looked into it, and he could not “find a pollster who can remember any President ever getting just 2 percent approval from African-Americans.”

(Via Crooks and Liars.)

Brandy points out that is a rounding error. The numbers are so low as to be unstable. It might very well be zero.

UPDATE: I just found out the margin of error is 3 percent. So it could be as high as 5%, or as low as negative 1. I suppose that means unborn black children are against Bush too, which is ironic for someone so theoretically anti-abortion. On the other hand, that might just be a reaction to Bill Bennett’s comments about aborting black babies.

One thought on “Rounding error”

  1. apparently the incredibly populated and diverse poll was less than 1500 people, and had an amazing 89 blacks.

    A much larger Pwe poll shows the approval rating around 12% down from 14% at the last such poll.

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