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Sequestration Poll Shows That Nearly 4 In 10 Americans Impacted By Cuts

You must be getting calls from much brighter pollsters than I am. My callers have rigid standards of response and often I can't answer y/n or rate 1/10. There's no room for subtlety and thus I distrust the outcomes.

The "polls" that bother me most are the younger students drug use percentages. I try to imagine asking a 15 year old "have you used cocaine in the last 7 days?" or similar and actually get the response "sure, don't tell my mom". So IMHO they make most of this crap up.

Of course, I could be wrong.


samsmart said:
Which is why they interview a large enough number of people to get a statistically accurate sample rather than just rely on a few people who may be biased.

And if a pollster decides that your interview was somehow biased they'll toss it out and replace it with an non-biased interview.
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Mason66 said:
If this is true, why are Obamas approval numbers still so high?
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That all depends who's polls your looking at. If you average all of the polls Obama gets a 48.4 % approval rating and a 47.5 % disapproval.

Then you have polls like CNN who also poll illegal aliens. Then there are those who believe if they disapprove of Obama they will be called a racist. Then there's the uninformed and most of them tend to have voted for Obama.

Maybe a better indicator of how Americans approve or disapprove of Obama is this question. Direction of the country. Right direction 31.7 % Wrong direction 59.2 %

RealClearPolitics - Election Other - President Obama Job Approval
 
samsmart said:
In surveys, it is generally up to whoever is being interviewed to determine for themselves using whatever criteria that interviewed person determines for themselves.

Though there could be follow-up questions in which the interviewer asks for specific ways in which they are being affected. It just depends on the individual survey and how it's worded.
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Sooooo, how are these 40% being effected then? Kind of a worthless poll if that follow up question wasnt asked. For my part, I have not been effected, nor do i know anyone affected or seen any signs anywhere of any effects of sequestration at all.
 
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