All the "wrong direction" poll #s the media like to cite to predict electoral disaster

[highplainsdem]

for the party in power (as Chuck Todd did this morning) are COMPLETELY meaningless without a detailed breakdown of exactly WHY those polled believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.

You have to know how many, of the 70+% who are dissatisfied, blame the Democrats or blame the GOP. And why.

Otherwise that poll result is just statistics porn for desperate pundit doomsayers who want to predict a shellacking.

I'm going to have to stop watching Chuck Todd. I nearly fed a bowl of oatmeal to the TV.

Back to music...

[mahina]

1. 100%!

[highplainsdem]

4. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one feeling this exasperated with the media.

[The Magistrate]

2. Exactly, Ma'am

It is a very old trick. During the debate of the ACA, a single 'don't approve' number was bandied about, without mention being made as many disapproved because it didn't go far enough as disapproved because they opposed the intent of the bill.

I do not approve of the direction the country is headed, and will not be able to until the Republican party joins the Federalists and Whigs in the discard pile.

[highplainsdem]

5. I'd forgotten the ACA poll numbers. It's amazing that voters ever get anything right,

given all the misleading information they're fed by the media.

[Wounded Bear]

3. In my 69 years I don't remember the "Direction" poll ever swinging "YES"...

It's always over 50% "NO" and you're reasons are sound. They don't break it down. Lazy journalism.

[highplainsdem]

6. Exactly. Lazy journalism.

[brooklynite]

7. The data from the poll is easily available.

Unpopular politicians and parties


Finally, the NBC News poll finds every politician and political party it tested to be more unpopular than popular with the American public:

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.: 23 percent positive, 29 percent negative (-6)
President Joe Biden: 39 percent positive, 48 percent negative (-9)
The Republican Party: 34 percent positive, 44 percent negative (-10)
Donald Trump: 37 percent positive, 51 percent negative (-14)
The Democratic Party: 33 percent positive, 48 percent negative (-15)
Vice President Kamala Harris: 32 percent positive, 49 percent negative (-17)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/downhill-divisive-americans-sour-nation-s-direction-new-nbc-news-n1287888