Amid Obama's Sinking Polls: Two Liferafts Are Thrown

Almost all of the major polls have President Obama at or below 54% in his approval rating. But, not the Time Magazine Poll nor the CBS/New York Times Poll! In their "sampling (?)" of America, Obama always seems to do quite a bit better than in all the rest.

In the world of statistics, especially in political polling, there is a term used to define data that is way off the mark and that term is "outlier". Maybe, when looking at the polling results for CBS/New York Times and for Time, we should be use the expression: "out and outright LIARS".

For some almost "mystical" reason, each of these polling operations always under-polls Republicans while over-polling Democrats and/or Independents. For example, when you look at the sample data for the latest CBS/New York Times poll, you will find that only 20 percent of the respondents were Republicans. This is an under-polling of Republicans by nearly 30 percent. This fact alone is why this poll has Obama at 58 percent (Click to See Poll Results In a PDF file format). It also explains why Obama's disapproval rate is only at 30% when most of the others are closer to 40%.

I think, by now, everyone knows that the New York Times is "the" media outlet for the Democratic Party. CBS, too, is pretty biased towards Obama and the Democrats. You only have to look at Katie Courics' bias over the years to know that to be the case. Then, of course, there's David Letterman who has never told a single Obama joke; but, instead, has constantly trashed Bush and every other Republican on the planet. And, let us never forget that his is the same media organization that allowed Dan Rather to "air" falsified "reserve" documents on George Bush.

Then, there's Time Magazine. To say that they are totally in love with Obama would be an understatement! Just look at this screen shot from this morning's Drudge Report:

Time has almost killed a complete forest of trees in reporting favorable stories about Barack. Time is part of Time-Warner organization who also brings us the always Obama, CNN news network and HBO's Obama-love-fest, the Bill Maher show.

What I find interesting is that one of the most typically left of the News Media, NBC, published a poll that showed Obama's favorability rating at only 54% and in line with most all the other polls. Maybe, there is hope, yet, for this formerly time-honored source of television news.

Anyway, its interesting that CBS, the New York Times, and Time are all losing subscribers and viewers. I think the American public has figured them out and know that they are more inclined to be more ideological and not an honest broker of the news.

Note: The first graphic is a screen-shot from the Real Clear Politics website.