The Winkest Link

By Wink

As you would guess, on-line polls are not exactly random, and are almost as unscientific as is possible.

A recent MSNBC poll was taken to rate President Obama. This poll was pretty straight-forward: How do you think Obama did in his first 100 days? The only options were letter grades A, B, C, D and F.

If the results reflected only MSNBC viewers it would probably lean pretty heavily to the “A” side of things. Those who watch MSNBC lean a bit left. If the poll were taken by Fox “News” it would have leaned pretty heavily toward “F.”

The last I saw though, the “A’s” were at 37% and the “F’s” were at 38%, leaving 25% in the middle. Remember, this is an MSNBC poll.

Early in a presidents term people tend to give him the benefit of the doubt, so “A’s” or “B’s” are to be expected. The rest, all things being equal, should be spread out about evenly between C, D and F.

So early in ANY president’s term, to get more than 10 or 15% in the “F” category takes a pretty well-orchestrated effort.

Please note, NOTHING disastrous, or even remotely bad, has happened during the first 100 days. Nothing. So what is there to give an “F” about? (No pun intended.) The only conclusion you can draw is that the 38% “F” vote represents great orchestration on the part of the Obama-haters.

Did anything especially bad happen during W’s first 100 days? Nope. I promise you, there weren’t 38% who would have given him an F, even though he shouldn’t have been in office.

Conservatives have completely polarized the political process. Every action by a democrat is evil, every action by a Republican, no matter how moronic (or unconstitutional) is good. The concerted effort to run up the “F” category of polls like this is just a small part of the bigger ‘sliming’ process that conservative leaders have become so comfortable with.

Naturally, liberals have tried to lash back, but they just don’t seem have the ‘game’ down. Maybe they are just too mellow.

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