Thanks! What an oversight on my part. Nonetheless, all groups that are significantly large should be included in the tabulation.

According to the Quinnipiac Poll, 34% rated Bush the worst president with the breakdown being 21% among Protestants, 35% among Catholics and 15% among “evangelical” Christians. Typical national polls will show Protestants, Catholics, and “others and none” comprise about 67%, 25% and 8% of respondents, respectively. Taking Protestants and Catholics together, 25% would state Bush was the worst. If every one of the others (Jews, Orthodox, Muslims, none, etc) stated Bush was the worst, the proportion stating Bush would be the worst is only 32 percent, unless “others and none” comprise more than 10% of the sample. Of course not everyone in this group stated Bush was the worst, although unfortunately no figures are provided in the report.

Even more confusing is that 15% of “Evangelical Christians” think Bush was the worst. What proportion of the survey sample described themselves thusly? Some surveys show this would include 40% of Americans, but this proportion could vary considerably depending on how the questions is asked. Probably 90% in this group is “Protestant” in religious preference. Is this group counted separately from other “nonevangelical” Protestants or as part of the “Protestant” (and “Catholic” as some Catholics consider themselves evangelical or born-again) total? If the case is the former, the overall 34% total makes even less sense.

I read the original report via the link provided, but it provides no information on survey methodology or what proportions of the sample fell into each of the survey categories. It is possible (but extremely unlikely) that 50% of the survey sample fell into the “other category.” Not to state whether the “evangelicals” were enumerated separately from the other religious groups or are included as subsets of the religious groups is totally irresponsible. If the “other and none” religious category is large, data on it should have been reported separately along with the other religious groups as well as an observation that this group is an important share, with an exact proportion reported, of the survey sample.

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yep. that seals it. bush is the worst president ever. sarcasm off/

One other thing no one has mentiond: Carter is obviously related to Clinton, the proof is Chelsea. Looks just like Jimmy. Hmmm. Wonder if Hillary ever went to Plains for a short “vacation”?

I was at 2 different polling places in the last Presidential election as an official observer, and young adults were rarly seen throughout the 12 hour long day.

I do remember one lil blonde who claimed that her Union had registered her to vote several months beforehand though. No paperwork was found to confirm that, and her vote was thus challenged.

I lost a few ‘friends’ that day. ;o)

Challenge them to open up their data base and we can have a barrel of laugh! Make them poll NY and Illinois suberbs and you could say that both states are predominant Republicans.

I can make California look like reagan country again….just don’t poll San Francisco, LA, Sacrmento, and Mount Shasta.

Like what they did to Kerry in 2004. They did the poll in noon and found that Kerry led by 6% average. Only Drudge Report found out that they poll 60% female votes!

They are a bunch of freaking con men. Pollster are just con men.

The same people who said Dubya is the worst president now are the same people who hated Reagan in the 80′s – thought he was a dumb, incompetent cowboy…. and look at what Reagan got in that same poll…

Ironically enough they don’t seem to remember LBJ either! Talk about eating your own…

Is it just melancholy? Nostalgia?

I bet you they took most of the samples from big cities where liberals dwell.