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January 06, 2007

Ice cream mountains and cotton candy skies...

For folks who've decided to wed themselves to the President come hell or high water--there has to be some sort of self-imposed exile from reality.

I can find no other plausible explanation for blog posts such as this:

Today’s approval numbers via Rasmussen are:

45% approval for Bush
43% approval for Pelosi

Well, that's half the numbers. Filling in the other half (which, to Surber's credit, is linked from his post), we see that Bush is at 45% job approval and 54% disapproval, while Pelosi is at 43% favorable and 39% unfavorable. So Pelosi seems ahead of Bush (+4 vs. -9) rather than behind. And the talk in the Surber post about the media's "false ... impressions," media "conventional wisdom [being] flushed down the toilet," and media "lies," seems like something of an overstatement.

To take this poll in isolation (especially given Bush's well below 45% approval ratings on every other poll) is ludicrous. The author of this piece can't sincerely believe that the President is sitting on a 45% approval rating unless he's batshit delusional.

The polling on Pelosi is meaningless because her name recognition is low. The stupidity of comparing her ratings to Bush should speak for itself.

Honestly, I'm surprised at the depth this blog writer goes to insulate himself in order to validate his premise.

Posted by Carla at January 6, 2007 09:03 AM