AP Poll on Bush's Approval Ratings

Lucas might not want to read the following post. (This marks the first political-related post of my new blog. w00t!)

As I was listening to Rush Limbaugh in the car (it was the station my mom had the radio set at), Rush made an interesting comment that I wanted to mention.

The latest Associated Press poll on Bush's job performance gave him an (astonishingly low) 42% job approval rating. This doesn't really matter to Bush so much because he is not running again, but 42% is crazy low.

But lets dig a little deeper into the poll, shall we?

Among surveyed Republicans in the AP poll, 90% gave Bush approval. Among surveyed Democrats, 80% disapproved of Bush.

This means that all of the independants surveyed must have disapproved of Bush to get the 42% approval rating, if the percentages of the political parties surveyed equal what they actually are. And that's just not realistic.

In actuality, there was an uneven split among people surveyed. As opposed to the actual (nearly) 50-50 democrat-republican split, 49% of people surveyed were democrats, and 39% were republicans (with independants/other parties filling up the gap).

...and the democrats say that the mainstream media is unbiased...