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Poll Backs Obama Over Republicans - Georgia Disconnect

This from Bloomberg on Oct 9, 2009:
A survey found 64 percent of voters disapproving of the way Republicans in Congress are doing their jobs, with 25 percent approving. Also, 53 percent had an unfavorable opinion of the party in general, while 25 percent rated it favorably.

The performance of Democratic lawmakers was disapproved of by 56 percent, with 33 expressing approval. For the party in general, 46 percent expressed disapproval, 38 percent approval.

COMMENT: Wow, living in Georgia, you would never have guess this poll result.  Of the people I come in contact with, about 95% it seems are strongly Republicans and strongly anti anything Obama does. At least in Georgia, but not apparently not the country.  Very big disconnect.

Why is that?   I would suppose religion and talk radio. That is my guess.  Georgia people say they are religious, it is the central theme of their life.  Another central theme is they are Republicans, and they HATE Obama and Nancy Pelosi with the passion of a revival preacher.  The two themes seems to merge into one.  All religious people would have to be Republicans in their view.  If one were to put Democrat on their facebook profile, lord help them.  Your closest friends would snarl at you.  You must be a heathen if you are a Democrat and worse.  Independents like myself are suspect and fare not much better.   They say you don’t have VALUES.  At least not their values.

Atlanta is the home to CONSERVATIVE talk radio across the dial.  Neal Boortz is based here.  Sean Hannity lived here and had his radio show in Atlanta for years before moving to NY and starting his TV show. Russ Limbaugh is most people’s hero and you can hear his show in the background when in the presence of service contractors up to corporate VPs.  On a recent day I spun my car radio AM dial around and picked up Neal Boortz, Russ Limbaugh, Laura Ingle, Mark Levin, Glen Beck, Michal Savage and Dennis what’s his name the former comedian. Oh, there is the public radio station for a counter balance. They play contemporary music most of the time.

To continue the Bloomberg article says:“President Barack Obama’s approval rating has held at 50 percent over the past two months of high-intensity debate on health care and other issues,” said Peter Brown assistant director of the Hamden, Connecticut-based university’s polling institute. “And while the spotlight is on the president, Republicans are taking a public-opinion pounding.” The survey of 2,630 voters was conducted Sept. 29-Oct. 5 and has an error margin of plus-or-minus 1.9 percentage points.

COMMENT: I would swear they are making this stuff up.  What planet are they on?  Certainly not planet Georgia.   From Georgia it seems like an error margin of say, 95%.