What is it with Catholic Priests?

[giblets]

I'll side with the 55 percent or so who thinks he's a terrible president.

The disapproval rating is ~45%, and "I disapprove" is not necessarily "I think he's terrible".

[Ben Kenobi]

The disapproval rating is ~45%, and "I disapprove" is not necessarily "I think he's terrible".

you've got it backwards.

Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. Fifty-four percent (54%) disapprove

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Don't see why it's 'american' to approve of Obama. He's a terrible president.

[Ben Kenobi]

Come on, Ben. There is NO transparency in fund usage to parishioners in Catholic churches. None. Go ahead, ask your pastor his annual income, and for a balance sheet with pie chart of how all the collections are spent.

Our parish did just that.

Give me a break, you pathetic troll.

quis est tua pater?

[DinoDoc]

Why don't you go back to studying Newsmax for instructions from Rupert Murdoch on your next opinion?

Murdoch endorsed Obama. Also why are we talking about the Obama admin, Newsmax, and Rupert Murdoch when the topic of the thread is the Catholic Church and the theft of its funds?

[giblets]

Gallup thinks the disapproval rating is 46%. Rasmussen's results tend to be skewed toward the right.

[DinoDoc]

Gallup thinks the disapproval rating is 46%. Rasmussen's results tend to be skewed toward the right.

Oh for the love of God, if you insist on discussing meaningless and stupid polls wrt the thread topic you could at least deal with averages of multiple polls to minimize bias: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...oval-1044.html

[giblets]

Oh for the love of God, if you insist on discussing meaningless and stupid polls wrt the thread topic you could at least deal with averages of multiple polls to minimize bias: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...oval-1044.html

Yep, Rasmussen is skewed to the right.

[DanS]

Come on, Ben. There is NO transparency in fund usage to parishioners in Catholic churches. None. Go ahead, ask your pastor his annual income, and for a balance sheet with pie chart of how all the collections are spent. Give me a break, you pathetic troll.

It all depends on the parish, as far as I know.

[Ben Kenobi]

Gallup thinks the disapproval rating is 46%. Rasmussen's results tend to be skewed toward the right.

America chose Obama, and if you don't like it, you don't have to come here.

Rasmussen polls likely voters, Gallup polls adults, including people who didn't vote. How exactly did non-voting Americans 'choose' Obama? Texting on their phone? Telepathy?

[giblets]

Voting Americans chose Obama by a 54/46 margin, IIRC.

edit: 53% voted for Obama

[Ben Kenobi]

Voting Americans chose Obama by a 54/46 margin, IIRC.

That was then. This is now. Independents have left him.

[giblets]

Sure, if you cherrypick the one poll that leans to the right. Somehow Rasmussen is the only poll where 99+% of the public either approves or disapproves, while the other polls have a significant number of people that neither approve nor disapprove. Somehow I get the impression that Rasmussen is counting people who neither approve nor disapprove as people who disapprove to skew the results.

[Ben Kenobi]

Sure, if you cherrypick the one poll that leans to the right.

If we are asking the question wrt to voters, then we should use the poll that has likely voters only. I don't see why it's relevant to poll non-voting adults.

Somehow Rasmussen is the only poll where 99+% of the public either approves or disapproves, while the other polls have a significant number of people that neither approve nor disapprove. Somehow I get the impression that Rasmussen is counting people who neither approve nor disapprove as people who disapprove to skew the results.

Rasmussen has had Obama underwater for at least a year now. This isn't a new trend.

[giblets]

If we are asking the question wrt to voters, then we should use the poll that has likely voters only. I don't see why it's relevant to poll non-voting adults.

Rasmussen has had Obama underwater for at least a year now. This isn't a new trend.

Way to miss the point. Rasmussen, as far as I can tell, thinks a person can only approve or disapprove, which is BS. They get roughly the same approval rating as the other polls, but assume everyone who doesn't approve must disapprove, while other pollsters allow people to go on the record as neutral. Rasmussen takes the neutral respondents and arbitrarily puts them into the disapproval category to make Obama look bad. I could be wrong though.

[Ben Kenobi]

I could be wrong though.

From where I sit, Gallup is required not to show Obama as over 50 percent disapproval. That sword cuts both ways.