Digging a little deeper, as David Weigel did at Slate, the poll becomes less triumphal, or panicky, depending on your side of the aisle. “If you look at the crosstabs, the percentage of people calling Obama ‘honest and trustworthy’ has actually stabilized and risen since 2013; the percentage calling him a strong leader, also stable.”
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So if the Quinnipac survey doesn’t really tell us anything new, why all the hoop and hoopla?
In part because the media have become like sports announcers: Even if nothing’s happening, they have to make it sound as if something important is — so don’t change channels or you’ll miss something vital.
Attention trumps analysis.
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