{"id":9439,"date":"2013-04-08T19:11:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2013-04-08T19:11:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:11:54","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-obama-takes-a-dive-within-the-margin-of-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9439","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Obama Takes A Dive Within The Margin Of Error"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News seems not to understand the meaning of common figures of speech. It’s another way that they manifest their departure from the real world<\/a> that the rest of us inhabit.<\/p>\n

For instance, in a posting today on Fox Nation, they reported the results of a poll<\/a> conducted by CNN with a headline declaring that “Obama Takes a Dive on Guns, Immigration, Deficit.”<\/em> Ordinarily Fox would not give any credence to a poll by the socialist apparatchiks at CNN, but since they managed to spin this negatively for the President they have a new found regard for the network.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/center>
\n<\/p>\n

The actual results of the poll are mixed from the President’s perspective. However, the key finding is that Obama’s approval rating went up 4% (to 51%) while his disapproval went down 3% – a seven percent swing in Obama’s favor. If that’s taking a dive, we should all jump in.<\/p>\n

To be fair, the Fox headline did specify three issues as having dived, so let’s take a look at those. On immigration it would be fair to say that Obama’s handling of the matter suffered somewhat with approval\/disapproval percentages declining to 44\/50 from 51\/43. However on guns, the numbers hardly budged from 46% approval in January to 45% today. And on the deficit the numbers ticked down slightly from 41% to 38%. On guns and the deficit, the shifts were both within the margin of error which means that there was no shift at all from a statistical perspective.<\/p>\n

It is notable that, while Obama’s numbers were lower than they were in the previous poll (taken the week before the inauguration when traditionally polls spike up), they were higher than at any other time for the past year. That suggests an upward trending that was merely interrupted by an abnormally high reading in January.<\/p>\n

So the President’s numbers were essentially stagnant on the deficit and guns; they were notably improved overall; and that is what the Fox Nationalists consider a dive. Not reported at all by Fox is that approval for Republicans in Congress is a pitiful 25% with 73% disapproving. The President’s approval is a full 26 points higher. He must be terribly disappointed, poor fella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox News seems not to understand the meaning of common figures of speech. It’s another way that they manifest their departure from the real world that the rest of us inhabit. For instance, in a posting today on Fox Nation, they reported the results of a poll conducted by CNN with a headline declaring that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[183,527],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2sf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19975,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19975","url_meta":{"origin":9439,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Romney Would CRUSH Obama If Fantasy Ruled The World","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/27\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A new CNN poll was released that asked a frivolous little question that has no real bearing on anything. They asked who respondents would vote for in a hypothetical rematch between President Obama and Mitt Romney. However, the coverage of this poll by Fox Nation not only ignores the broader\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox Nation","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-reality-poll-obama-romney.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-reality-poll-obama-romney.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-reality-poll-obama-romney.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7751,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7751","url_meta":{"origin":9439,"position":1},"title":"Fox Nation Ignores Polls By CNN, Reuters, And — Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/9\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It must be hard being the PR agency for the Romney campaign (aka Fox News) when the real world is constantly interfering with your efforts to distort reality. Nevertheless, Fox News soldiers on to try to spin the gloomy prospects of Mitt Romney's Circus of Desperation into something passably positive.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7113,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7113","url_meta":{"origin":9439,"position":2},"title":"Obama Surging Ahead Of Romney In Fox News Poll That Fox News Ignores","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/17\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For additional evidence that Fox News is the PR agency for the Republican Party, note the feverishly excited treatment that Fox News gives to polling when the results favor Mitt Romney: In the past two months Fox Nation has posted at least seven articles on election polling and every single\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8014,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8014","url_meta":{"origin":9439,"position":3},"title":"Fox News Banishes Their Own Polls From Fox Nation","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/13\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a conspicuous trend developing at Fox News that indicates the depth of their desperation in light of the momentum President Obama is enjoying coming out of the party conventions. They are so afraid of an Obama victory in November that they are burying their own polls when the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9789,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9789","url_meta":{"origin":9439,"position":4},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Math-Challenged Poll Analysis On ObamaCare","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/30\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In yet another attempt to turn their audience into blithering idiots, the Fox Nationalists have posted the results of a CNN poll on ObamaCare with a thoroughly misleading headline and commentary: \"Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose ObamaCare.\" For more Fox Nation mangling of the truth, get the acclaimed book, Fox\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7480,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7480","url_meta":{"origin":9439,"position":5},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Cherry Picking Poll Data","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/2\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The top-of-page headline at Fox Nation today is a report that falsely declares that \"Obama Poll Numbers Drop After Court Upholds His Law.\" The poll to which the Fox Nationalists refer is from the notoriously GOP-slanted Rasmussen Reports. Rassmussen is best known as a Republican shill. He attends GOP conferences\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9442,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions\/9442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}