February 27, 2015
About Obama's 50% approval rating
One of the many odd things about the whole IQ measurement business is that significantly less than 50% of any large human population is in any practical sense of below average intelligence -- so when Gallup recently announced that Mr. Obama's popularity had soared to achieve a 50% approval rating, I started to wonder just how that miracle had been achieved.
Gallup generally tries to run an honest business -- and their predictions for 2012 were close to spot on if you estimate the vote in GOP no-go areas like those in Ohio and Pennsylvania where Mr. Obama's people recorded roughly 100% of eligible voters as having voted democrat, at average rates for demographically similar, but smaller and GOP auditable, precincts elsewhere.
Unfortunately Gallup's efforts at running a clean survey led them to predict a Romney victory and that, in turn, left them to do some serious soul searching when Mr. Obama appeared to win instead.
In response they introduced at least two types...(Read Full Article)