This Politico piece must have been scribbled by the same poor schmuck who's been forced to cover Jeb Bush's anti-pro-immigration stance and Paul Ryan's self-assorted love-it/hate-it 55-plus-or-minus Medicare positions and Marco Rubio's accordion-like knowledge of paleogeology.
In the headline we learn that "President Obama’s numbers plunge in New York," and then good grief we're instantly assured in the lede that "Obama’s approval rating in New York fell precipitously in the past month," and yet then in the second paragraph's opening sentence we discover that "Obama’s approval rating remains high in New York."
That would be his precipitously plunging high, I guess.
Like the crocuses in spring, harbingers of future hopes, Politico seizes on a polling number. And further cites numbers citing public dismay with political trends. Although they don't quite seem to get to why the public is dismayed with the direction the country is heading or who they blame for it.
Posted by: Peter G | March 11, 2013 at 12:34 PM
This helps explain how the Republicans really won the election.
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | March 11, 2013 at 01:28 PM