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Averroës Nix
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« on: September 17, 2011, 01:10:54 PM »

Ask any professional poster, this far out head to head match ups are near useless, but what is a little more telling is:

A's approval/disapproval vs. B's approval/disapproval...the polls always converge on that anyway.

Totally concur, but what's interesting about this election cycle is that everyone has net negative approval ratings: Congress, Congressional Republicans, Congressional Democrats, Obama, and the Republican Presidential candidates.

Admittedly, head-to-heads are a lousy way of augmenting this information.
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Averroës Nix
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« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2011, 09:34:38 PM »

To clarify, the presidential candidates don't have "approval ratings".  They have "favorability ratings".  "Job approval" has to do with how voters think someone is doing at their job.  Romney and most of the others don't have jobs, so they don't have job approval ratings.

It was sloppy to use the terms interchangeably. But Perry and Romney both have poor favorability ratings, and my point stands.
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