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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:43 am Post subject: Least Popular President, Except for All The Others |
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Here's an amusing one from James Taranto...and the joke is Reuters... 
| Quote: | The Least Popular President, Except for All The Others
Something is wrong with the arithmetic in this dispatch from Reuters:President George W. Bush ranks as the least popular and most bellicose of the last ten U.S. presidents, according to a new survey.
Only nine percent of the 662 people polled picked Bush as their favorite among the last 10 presidents. John F. Kennedy topped that part of the survey, with 26 percent, closely followed by Bill Clinton (25 percent) and Ronald Reagan (23 percent). So let's see if we have this straight: these four presidents combined account for 26% (JFK) plus 23% (Reagan) plus 25% (Clinton) plus 9% (Bush). That's a total of 83%.
Therefore a total of 17% of those surveyed picked one of the remaining six presidents--or, to put it another way, those six presidents scored an average of 2.83%. It's conceivable that one of the six bested Bush's 9%--but no more than one of them could have, which means Bush is at least the fifth most popular of the 10 most recent presidents.
Perhaps it's too much to expect wire-service reporters to have mastered simple arithmetic, but the errors always seem to go in one direction.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:07 am Post subject: Re: Least Popular President, Except for All The Others |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | Here's an amusing one from James Taranto...and the joke is Reuters...
| Quote: | The Least Popular President, Except for All The Others
Something is wrong with the arithmetic in this dispatch from Reuters:President George W. Bush ranks as the least popular and most bellicose of the last ten U.S. presidents, according to a new survey.
Only nine percent of the 662 people polled picked Bush as their favorite among the last 10 presidents. John F. Kennedy topped that part of the survey, with 26 percent, closely followed by Bill Clinton (25 percent) and Ronald Reagan (23 percent). So let's see if we have this straight: these four presidents combined account for 26% (JFK) plus 23% (Reagan) plus 25% (Clinton) plus 9% (Bush). That's a total of 83%.
Therefore a total of 17% of those surveyed picked one of the remaining six presidents--or, to put it another way, those six presidents scored an average of 2.83%. It's conceivable that one of the six bested Bush's 9%--but no more than one of them could have, which means Bush is at least the fifth most popular of the 10 most recent presidents.
Perhaps it's too much to expect wire-service reporters to have mastered simple arithmetic, but the errors always seem to go in one direction.
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Jimmy Carter .00001 percent.
Just another Moonbat survey. I'm sure President Bush choked on his eggnog when he heard the news at Camp David.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:44 am Post subject: |
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Fri Dec 16, 2005
An interesting tidbit from the report about Bush--
| Quote: | | But he was rated most highly in response to a question on who would do the right thing even if it were unpopular. |
then this
| Quote: | | The survey was conducted by the Chicago-based National Qualitative Centers, a marketing research company, as part of research for a forthcoming book on popular preferences, one of its authors, Ken Berwitz, said on Friday. |
hmm who screwed up the stats --this professional org --- or Reuters
nah Reuters wouldnt do that
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Anyone under 50 would have virtually no real memory of JFK. What does that tell you about the people they surveyed?
From those of us old enough, I'd bet the least popular is, far and away, Jimmuh.
Anybody know where Algore came in on this survey??
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject: LBJ |
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| I'll NEVER forget LBJ was Commander-in-Chief when I was in Vietnam. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: LBJ |
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| AMOS wrote: | | I'll NEVER forget LBJ was Commander-in-Chief when I was in Vietnam. |
For most of us who came of age in the 60s, LBJ is the 1st President we remember in any real context. Unfortunately for those in their 20s now it is Der Schlickmeister and his Red Queen.
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Most likely the research firm only sampled 666 (four respondents were dropped in deference to the religious right) people from the Chicago area.
I suppose:
The nursing homes they surveyed included many older residents in various stages of mental decay. All of those surveyed were long time Democrats from the Chicago area.
Several names that received votes were left off the survey since they were not elected President and only opposed the candidate that won. For example several of the residents surveyed remember reading the Chicago Daily Tribune and President Thomas Dewey won the 1948 election.
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