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Bill Clinton Bests Former Presidents to Handle Crisis Today, Newsmax/Zogby Poll Finds
Bill Clinton Bests Former Presidents to Handle Crisis Today, Newsmax/Zogby Poll Finds
By: Jim Meyers
If Americans could have a former living U.S. president run the country and deal with the problems facing the nation today, they would pick Bill Clinton by a wide margin, a Newsmax/Zogby poll reveals.Former President Jimmy Carter came in last, garnering just 5 percent of support for his taking charge.
The exclusive Newsmax/Zogby poll also found that, if an election took place today between Barack Obama and George W. Bush or Hillary Clinton, Obama would beat both handily.
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Editor's notes: understand that Clinton won each of his two elections by percentages of 42 and 49. He may, in fact, be the only modern day President to fail to win by a simply majority. And, he has no "coat tails" as they say. He couldn't get his mother elected landlady of a trailer park. Obama is proving to have the same inability, btw.
Carter? Well, who in their right mind thinks this peanut eater was and is anything but a sorry excuse of an American?
One more thing about polls ------ actually two more things.
First, if a major media is mentioned in the poll, such as USA Today/zogby, Zogby is the polling company and USA Today created the questions. In this case, Newsmax is a conservative publication.
Secondly, regardless of source, polls that pose acceptable but somewhat poorly written questions will get a stressed result. Demographics pose a serious problem, as well. . . . "demographics" in this case refers to any number of variables in the population questioned: age, income levels, educational factors, voting history, political persuasion, degree of gender parity, race factors (yes, "race." Blacks voted 95% for Obama. Jews voted 75% for Obama), religious persuasion (whether high church or Pentecostal, for example), time of day poll was taken, geographical demographics and more.
This is why an ABC poll on the evening before the Clinton/Dole had Clinton winning by 21 points when, in fact, the election was won by just 8 %. How close would that election had been if the polls showed Bob Dole in close election. Midknight Review believes there is no explanation for such a discrepancy other than a media bias for Bill Clinton. How many voters stayed away from the voting booth thinking "21%" was simply too much to overcome?
Midknight Review suggests that this poll actually measures a romantic attachment to the "good old days" of Clinton's last four years. There is no question that our economy was booming during those years. The Republican Congress was busy balancing the budget. Employment was up and Clinton was riding a "jobs boom" lead by the Dot Com bubble. People forget that before Billy Boy got out of office, the bubble had burst and 12 jobs were lost. When Bush took office, we were in the midst of a brief recession that was amended by the Bush tax cuts.
In an actual election, it is doubtful that Clinton could overcome the many negatives of his time in office, not the least of which was his narcissistic behavior. The argument, "We don't care about what he does in his private life" had worn thin after years. No one was arguing about his private life. He "dropped drawer" some 60 times WHILE SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE. She was an intern and he, a "boss." If she had been a party to a foreign government, well, things would have been different . . . and that is why Presidents need to be circumspect. Look at JFK. His first White House girl friend ("dated" Campbell for two years before being talked out of the relationship by White House insiders) was mob boss's "old lady." Her name was Judith Campbell - a 25 year old burnett babe and girlfriend of Sam Giancana. Giancana was a very important mob boss and Robert Kennedy had declared war on the mob, after being appointed Attorney General by his brother.
We won't take the time to tell the story. The point is this: what a President does in the White House or in his private life is critically important. When a President screws around, he compromises the security of the entire nation.
Our point? Bill Clinton is not nearly as popular as this poll might suggest. Neither is Obama. And polls are not as solid a predictor as we are lead to believe.
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Carter? Well, who in their right mind thinks this peanut eater was and is anything but a sorry excuse of an American?
One more thing about polls ------ actually two more things.
First, if a major media is mentioned in the poll, such as USA Today/zogby, Zogby is the polling company and USA Today created the questions. In this case, Newsmax is a conservative publication.
Secondly, regardless of source, polls that pose acceptable but somewhat poorly written questions will get a stressed result. Demographics pose a serious problem, as well. . . . "demographics" in this case refers to any number of variables in the population questioned: age, income levels, educational factors, voting history, political persuasion, degree of gender parity, race factors (yes, "race." Blacks voted 95% for Obama. Jews voted 75% for Obama), religious persuasion (whether high church or Pentecostal, for example), time of day poll was taken, geographical demographics and more.
This is why an ABC poll on the evening before the Clinton/Dole had Clinton winning by 21 points when, in fact, the election was won by just 8 %. How close would that election had been if the polls showed Bob Dole in close election. Midknight Review believes there is no explanation for such a discrepancy other than a media bias for Bill Clinton. How many voters stayed away from the voting booth thinking "21%" was simply too much to overcome?
Midknight Review suggests that this poll actually measures a romantic attachment to the "good old days" of Clinton's last four years. There is no question that our economy was booming during those years. The Republican Congress was busy balancing the budget. Employment was up and Clinton was riding a "jobs boom" lead by the Dot Com bubble. People forget that before Billy Boy got out of office, the bubble had burst and 12 jobs were lost. When Bush took office, we were in the midst of a brief recession that was amended by the Bush tax cuts.
In an actual election, it is doubtful that Clinton could overcome the many negatives of his time in office, not the least of which was his narcissistic behavior. The argument, "We don't care about what he does in his private life" had worn thin after years. No one was arguing about his private life. He "dropped drawer" some 60 times WHILE SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE. She was an intern and he, a "boss." If she had been a party to a foreign government, well, things would have been different . . . and that is why Presidents need to be circumspect. Look at JFK. His first White House girl friend ("dated" Campbell for two years before being talked out of the relationship by White House insiders) was mob boss's "old lady." Her name was Judith Campbell - a 25 year old burnett babe and girlfriend of Sam Giancana. Giancana was a very important mob boss and Robert Kennedy had declared war on the mob, after being appointed Attorney General by his brother.
We won't take the time to tell the story. The point is this: what a President does in the White House or in his private life is critically important. When a President screws around, he compromises the security of the entire nation.
Our point? Bill Clinton is not nearly as popular as this poll might suggest. Neither is Obama. And polls are not as solid a predictor as we are lead to believe.
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