Newsweek's "New Poll Low": Another revelation
by osterizer
Fri Jul 06, 2007 at 12:30:58 PM PDT
At the top of this open thread, mcjoan points to a recent Newsweek poll showing Bush at a 26% overall approval rating.
Newsweek gives the by-party breakdown as follows:
| Current Total | 26% | 65% | 9% |
| Republicans | 60% | 25% | 15% |
| Democrats | 8% | 87% | 5% |
| Independents | 20% | 71% | 9% |
A little linear algebra (below the flip) reveals an interesting consequence of these figures: Only 27% of the respondents identified as Republicans, while 41% identified as Democrats (or, alternatively, Newsweek weighted the data in this manner, although Mystery Pollster states that Newsweek does not weight by party.)
I knew Democrats had an advantage in party ID, but fourteen points?
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