New Gallup poll shows that Bush is blamed for the current
economic crisis, after 3 years of
failure on the part of Obama, by a
margin of 68% to 52%.
Understand that I never post a partisan poll without first,
reviewing the methodological statements used to justify the polling data. Public Policy Polling, for example, is seldom used by me because of
its consistent “stacking” principle,
more than often stacking the opinion of the poll with a 58/45 split, Democrats to Republicans.
When I went to the Gallup section justifying
its poll, it had closed one page of
information and failed to give even a hint at how the poll’s demographics were
figured. The poll was 40/60 cell phone
versus land lines, and only one question was reproduced, question number 15. Usually, a group of two, three or four
questions are related to each other. We
were denied that information. In 5 years
of blogging, I have seldom seen such incompetence in the offering of polling information.
When a poll fails to presents its “justification,” polling results, if extreme,
can give insight into the bias of the particular poll. Those of us who are conservative (me) or “Republican,” know full well that 52% of Republicans do not
blame Bush primarily, for the crisis we
are now witnessing, in 2012.
Gallups tells
us: Interviews
are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with
interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking.
Each sample includes a minimum quota of 400 cell phone respondents and 600
landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents
by region. Landline numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone
numbers, cell phone numbers are selected using random-digit dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each
household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
We all know that 68% of Democrats were born in the month of
June**, which gives insight as to the
bias of this Gallup poll.
** Source:
Scatological Studies in Digital Programming, author,
May B. Faux, June 16, 2011.
