crissindahouse said:
this is a nice graph. even few years after the start of iraq war bushs approval wasn't less than before the war. it just dropped to the % he had before but not less. ok a liitle bit less but if there wouldn't have been the war it would have dropped to a weaker approval as well. it dropped very fast before the war. crazy how many people liked him. |
Thats not what that graph shows... the graph shows his popularity dropping below pre iraq levels pretty quickly. (Then rising again, then dropping)
Outside which, it is oddly confusing considering that most people were still against the war without UN approval when he launched it.
So why people suddenly started backing him.... i'm not sure.
Something about that seems geniunely off and makes me wish I had the source data to look at rather then a VERY cluttered poll.
To me it always seemed more like the Wallstreet journal poll.
Showing his approval rating generally lower on everything, and the WSJ not being known to be a liberal source.
Something feels confounding there... perhaps that the "14-day average" mark seems to suggest that it's treating every poll as the same source of data. Rather then treating each poll as it's own source of data.
Problem being, your expected to be biased polls like Fox News will create a bit of an exagerration as they will poll more often, when the president does something popular, and less often when they do something less popular. (Well the opposite now.)
