Archive for October 31st, 2013

Nums: Who is likely to do a better job: Federal government workers … or zombies?

October 31, 2013

I guess that since it’s Halloween, Rasmussen  felt obligated to put that question to a broad sample of Americans.

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37% said that gov’t workers would outperform zombies.

Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites and other minority Americans to believe the government workers would do a better job than zombies.

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37% said that zombies would outperform gov’t workers … a tie.

Men are more likely than women to think zombies would do a better job running the country.

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26% called it a “push”.

Happy Halloween !

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Uh-oh: Sharp drop in O’s approval ratings …

October 31, 2013

The government shutdown was jolting to Congressional (and GOP) already low ratings.

Pundits were projecting a big positive bump for the President.

That was an eternity ago.

You know, a couple of weeks.

Then the spotlight turned to the ObamaCare fiascos … the web site mess and the loss of Obama-guaranteed health insurance policies.

Worm turned.

Latest NBC-WSJ poll reports an all-time low Presidential approval rating of 42% … down 5 percentage points from earlier in the month … and. down 10 percentage points from January.

 

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What’s driving the drop?

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