Newsmax: Americans strongly prefer Obama — to Bush – Barack Obama
OPS_admin | Mar 09, 2010 | Comments 0
The right-wing site’s online poll may cheer the White House, a little
Online polls taken by partisan Web sites tend to be discounted — and some observers would question a Zogby online poll in particular — but when the results cut against the ideology of the sponsor, they may still be worth noting. Today’s morning lead on the ultra-conservative Newsmax site touts a Zogby online survey on presidents past and present, with findings that bolster the White House’s current occupant, who is usually the target of extremely harsh criticism from Newsmax and its columnists (one of whom seemingly advocated a military coup last year).
The headline on the Newsmax poll story — “Bill Clinton Bests Former Presidents to Handle Crisis Today” — concerns the unsurprising discovery that the American public considers the last Democratic president best qualified of all his peers (by far) to cope with the issues that America confronts today. Comissioned by Newsmax, which is run by Christopher Ruddy and owned by him and Richard Mellon Scaife, among others, the poll queried 4,000 people who participate in Zogby’s online surveys.
Among respondents asked the following question — “Of the current living former presidents, which do you think is best equipped to deal with the problems the country faces today?” — 41 percent chose Bill Clinton, trailed by George W. Bush with 15 percent, George H.W. Bush with 7 percent, and Jimmy Carter with only 5 percent, while 26 percent chose “none,” and 5 percent were “not sure.” Those choices may be partly a function of the age of the former presidents, since the elder Bush and Carter are considerably older than the younger Bush and Clinton. But Clinton finished first among all age groups, all races, all religions, and both sexes, with a significantly better showing among women (46 percent) than men (36 percent).
Full Story: Newsmax: Americans strongly prefer Obama — to Bush – Barack Obama – Salon.com.
OPS: any bets on how long it will be before they print the retraction?
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