Political Polls

I found something interesting on the Fox News website the other day. Normally, I don't pay much attention to politics this early before an election, but I happened to click onto the Politics page and found something called the Real Clear Polls or something like that. It seem to be an average of all the other political polls that abound in the news media.

Anyway, in my travels around the web, I often see comments about the poor poll numbers of President Bush. Now I don't take polls too seriously since college courses in statistics have shown just how easy it is to fudge the numbers. However, this poll pointed up a gap in results that doesn't seem to be reported. It seems that congress has even lower poll numbers than the President! While his gap between approval and disapproval is 26% that of congress is 40% and it's getting worse with every poll since the 100 day grace period after the last election.

Is the US Congressional delegation really that bad? My personal opinion is yes, but this polls results shows that I'm not alone in my opinion. One can only wonder at why so many of the current crop of presidential candidates are current or former member of congress. If the results are to be believed then the American public cares even less for these people as a group than it does for President Bush.

Personally, I say a pox on all of them.