Not That Anyone Cares

by digby

The gasbags spent the entire day talking about the new polls which have Obama at anywhere between a 50 and 58 percent approval rating. They all seem to think he’s toast, although David Gergen did mention that such a characterization means that people have been misreading polls since the beginning of time.

But in all the discussion of polls and how much people loathe and despise the idea that sick people should be able to get health care, nobody mentioned this:

Forty-one percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday say they favor the war in Afghanistan — down 9 points from May, when CNN polling suggested that half of the public supported the war.

Fifty-four percent say they oppose the war in Afghanistan, up 6 points from May.

“Afghanistan is almost certainly the Obama policy that Republicans like the most,” CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. “Nearly two-thirds of Republicans support the war in Afghanistan. Three-quarters of Democrats oppose the war.”

I realize that it’s not the central issue at the moment, but it still seems like something worth mentioning.

On the other hand, CNN isn’t all bad. Rick Sanchez took the Bernie Madoff of health care downtown.

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