JPT
Not off topic at all. You are a perfect example of why someone like me finds the right so entertaining.
Your interpretation of publicly available and cited polling data is flat out wrong. Rather than admit your mistake or cite some data to support your thesis, you keep on ranting, name calling, engaging in personal attacks and accusing others of being incapable of reading comprehension and basic math. Good lord, even this site’s hero, Chuck Pelto, agreed my mathematical analysis was correct (in March).
Since inauguration, some individual polls have given Obama approval ratings as high as ~75% – some as low as ~50%. Some of the polls rely on likely voters. Some rely on registered voters. When averaged out, Obama’s approval ratings have remained ~60% over this 4 month time span. It takes at least two points to define a line. The mathematical equation for a line is y = mx +b. The trend is discerned from the slope of the line, m. The trend line is flat. The slope of the line (m) is one. There has been no significant increase or decrease in Obama’s approval ratings since he was inaugurated. Extrapolating this data is meaningless.
So hang in there JPT. Sooner or later there may be a significant decrease in Obama’s approval ratings over a long period of time. Then you can claim you were right all along.
