Brian Stelter, CNN’s
host of Reliable Sources, decided he would dispute the findings in the
Rasmussen Daily
Presidential Tracking Poll.
The poll shows that 45%
of likely U.S. voters approve of President Trump’s job performance; 53%
disapprove. According to the poll for
December 29, 2017 the President has virtually the same job approval ratings
that The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer earned at the end of his
first year as president. On that date,
46% of voters approved and 53% disapproved.
When
President Trump tweeted
about the polling this morning he noted, “While the Fake News loves to talk
about my so-called low approval rating, @foxandfriends just showed that my
rating on Dec. 28, 2017 was approximately the same as President Obama on Dec.
28, 2009 which was 47%...and this despite massive negative Trump coverage &
Russia hoax!”
Lumpy “The
Hairless Hall Monitor” Stelter fired back at Trump directly with:
This is a prime example of how “Fox & Friends” does a disservice to viewers: https://t.co/ErJBOTAHbo— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 29, 2017
For context the
President’s tweet came at 7:46 AM.
Stelter responded to the President’s tweet at 8:25 AM. Then Jennifer Agiesta, CNN’s Polling
Director, hastily published a response online at 11:27 AM.
“President
Donald Trump claimed Friday that his approval ratings at this point in his
presidency rival those of Barack Obama, citing a report from ‘Fox &
Friends.’ But the truth, across almost
every reputable poll, is that Trump's approval ratings have lagged behind those
of nearly all of his predecessors, including Obama, since day one of his
presidency.”
Agiesta
assailed Rasmussen’s methodology arguing, “They claim to interview likely
voters, without specifying in what election those people are likely to cast
ballots, nor how they are identified. Polls conducted this way do not meet
CNN's standards for reporting, because they can under-represent certain
segments of the population.”
She continues, “Rasmussen's
polling received a C+ rating in FiveThirtyEight's most recent pollster
rankings, and it has been found to lean toward the GOP when compared with other
pollsters, which means it typically understated support for Obama and has a
tendency to overstate support for Trump when compared with other polls.”
On June 16, 2015, Nate
Silver of FiveThirtyEight infamy said,
“Trump has a better chance of caneoing in another “Home Alone” movie with
Macaulay Culkin—or playing in the NBA Finals—than winning the Republican
nomination.”
On August 11, 2015
Silver said, “Our emphatic prediction is simply that Trump will not win the
nomination. It’s not even clear that he’s trying to do so.”
Then came this pip on
November 23, 2015. “So, could Trump win?
Nobody remotely like Trump has won a major-party nomination in the
modern era. For my money, that adds up
to Trump’s chances being higher than 0 but (considerably) less than 20 percent.
Your mileage may vary.”
Hillary Clinton has an
81% chance of winning the election to Donald Trump’s 19%, polling
analyst Nate Silver said on July 29, 2016 in his first model of the 2016
presidential election. Silver got it
wrong. His methodology is as rigorous as
that of a strip mall physician in The Simpsons.
Perhaps Stelter and the
crew at the Most Busted Name In News should stick to hourly
box truck updates and how
many Diet Cokes® the President consumes.
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