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		<title>Help me Understand the Latest NY Times / CBS Poll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>So the latest NY Times/ CBS, poll, available <a title="CBS Poll" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_health_care_092409.pdf?tag=contentMain;contentBody" target="_blank">here</a>, claims the following:</p>
<p>1) Obama&#8217;s overall approval is 56% with only 33% disapproving (actually down 2% from last month).</p>
<p>2) Overall, 30% &#8220;mostly approve&#8221; of the President&#8217;s health care plan with only 23% &#8220;mostly disapprove.&#8221; (Among independents the numbers are 22% support 25% opposed)</p>
<p>Here is what I don&#8217;t understand.  According the best information I can find, there are approximately 72 million registered Democrats and 55 million registered Republicans, a 1.31 to 1 ratio.  In their poll, 357 respondents identified themselves as Democrats and 289 as republicans, a 1.24 to 1 ratio &#8211; not too far off.</p>
<p>However, they decided to &#8220;weight&#8221; the poll to 37% Democrat and only 22 % Republican! That&#8217;s a 1.68 to 1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans.</p>
<p>That would be the same as assuming there are more than 92 million registered Democrats instead of 72 million! So when you don&#8217;t get the results you want, just add 20 million Democrats to the mix?</p>
<p>Then they use that mix to post answers to questions such as &#8220;who has better ideas for health care reform?&#8221; and &#8220;who is trying harder for bipartisanship on health care?&#8221;</p>
<p>Assuming that my data about party registration is correct, how can a national poll get away with biasing itself so blatantly? It really bugs me that these numbers will be presented to the American people as a true sample of what all American adults think.</p>
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		<title>Bill Maher the Rabid Denialist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Maher has a <a title="Maher's column" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-float-like-obama_b_284151.html" target="_blank">new column</a> posted today on Huffington in which he illustrates all that is horribly wrong with the spittle-soaked left in this country.</p>
<p>First, has the gall &#8211; on 9/11 no less &#8211; to claim that Van Jones was fired solely because he called Republicans &#8220;a-holes.&#8221; Of course there was no mention than Jones was an avowed communist and vehement race-baiter and&#8230; oh yeah&#8230; HE SIGNED A PETITION ALLEDGING THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CONSPIRED TO ALLOW (read: CAUSE) 9/11 TO HAPPEN.</p>
<p>Maher writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>What got Van Jones fired was they caught him on tape saying that Republicans are assholes. And they call it &#8220;news.&#8221; And Obama didn&#8217;t say a word in defense of Jones and basically fired him when Glenn Beck told him to.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is a blatant lie by omission, and while it shouldn&#8217;t surprise me coming from Maher, I actualy AM surprised that even far left Democrats would put up with it if they even had a single patriotic bone in their body.</p>
<p>The rest of his ramblings provide us a great teachable moment in the ability of a liberal to deny reality &#8211; no matter how obvious &#8211; to avoid self-examination of his own idealogy.  Has anyone seen the <a title="End of WarGames" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo" target="_blank">end of &#8220;War Games?</a>&#8221; It&#8217;s as if his brain is playing tic-tac-toe with itself as it can&#8217;t reconcile the supposed perfection of his far leftism with the reality that THE COUNTRY ISN&#8217;T BUYING IT.</p>
<p>First, Maher whines that Democrats &#8220;can&#8217;t seem to get anything done even when they control both houses of Congress, the presidency, and Bruce Springsteen.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then he whines that, &#8220;tomorrow Glenn Beck&#8217;s army of zombie retirees are marching on Washington in protest of, well, everything,&#8221; while Democrats are sitting on their duffs.</p>
<p>The whine reaches fever pitch with, &#8220;They&#8217;re at the town hall screaming at the congressman, we&#8217;re on the couch screaming at the TV.&#8221;</p>
<p>All the while reality is an inch away, unbeknownst and unrecognized, staring him right in the face:</p>
<p>There is a reason for this, and it is that you are wrong. Your idealogy is wrong, and the American People are not buying it.</p>
<p><a title="Youtube of WarGames ending" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo" target="_blank">Greetings Professor Falken.  Would you like to play a game</a>?</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist&#8230;</p>
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