Thursday, September 10, 2009

Jump Spin

Drudge points out a pretty good way of making sure that something turns out all right in the end. Here's CNN:

Two out of three Americans who watched President Barack Obama's health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans — a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll of people who tuned into Obama's address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress.

14 points in one night? That's a hell of jump. Must have been a killer speech. But wait. What's this fine print at the bottom of the page...

The sample of speech-watchers in this poll was 45 percent Democratic and 18 percent Republican.

Oh.

It's been a while since I had fun with pollsters, and so, some more Poll Vaulting:

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