Thursday, April 20, 2006

Lots of News Open Forum

Lieberman's poll numbers are down, and getting dangerously close to 50% approval among Democrats. Analysis at My Left Nutmeg.

A memorial service was held for William Sloane Coffin.

Campaign finance reform, er, reform is being held up by the Zarella mess.

Rell is offering to fully fund the teachers' retirement fund. Excellent! If the governor is offering huge concessions to Democrats (for which she will take credit), it must be April.

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What else is happening today?

6 comments:

ctkeith said...

mod.dem.like.jfk,

We'll just call you Matt if thats OK.

I didn't notice you complaining about Survey USA (which had the best #s in 04 if I remember correctly)when your Daddy wasn't in Freefall.

ctkeith said...

Patricia Rice,

Isn't some old guy with Alzheimers in need of your talents?


Truth Squad,

When this is all over those ill fitted suits will finally be replaced by robes which hide alot of sins.I think they'll be a better fit.

Gabe said...

You know what else is interesting about that poll? Among Liberals (presumably who would be voting in a Democratic primary), Lieberman's numbers have actually crossed the rubicon and his approval/disapproval is 46/49!

Mod.Dem.JFK - If you didn't like the numbers above, you really aren't going to like these - MOE is +/- 9.2.

Two points about MOE:

1. Its natural that, when breaking down a poll into segments based on characteristics, the MOE gets pretty high when you look at individual segments. The way around this is to over sample the specific groups you want numbers for; here, SUSA wanted to break down every possible segment - it would have been prohibitively expensive to over sample each of the groups to keep the MOE managable.

2. If you are focus on the trend lines rather than the actual numbers, the MOE becomes largely irrelevent. The 49% percent mentioned above may not be totally accurate, but the fact that it is significantly less than it was 6 or 12 months ago is less subject to the MOE than a solid number is.

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ctkeith said...

I just wanted to let Truthy Know I was Devastated That Lamont didn't think Lieberman was a whiny-ass titty baby but not suprised He didn't think Joe was a douchebag or an ass clown.After all douchebags and ass clowns have a use.

ctkeith said...

Truthy,

Don't worry about Neds Ride.In 2007 he'll be driven by that same retired state trooper in the car you get to open and close the door to now.