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How Americans would vote in reruns of previous presidentials

 
 
nimh
 
Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 10:49 am
Source: Angus Reid Scan

I added the actual results and comparisons, and beautified it into the table below.

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/52/pollpresidentialelectionsretrospectcf0.gif
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Dookiestix
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 10:51 am
I guess that explains Bush Jr.'s whopping 35% approval rating. But this comes as no surprise.

The tide is turning...
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nimh
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 10:54 am
Re: How Americans would vote in reruns of previous president
nimh wrote:
Source: Angus Reid Scan

Here's the link
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 10:54 am
The outcome looks pretty ugly to me.... Wink
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nimh
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 10:56 am
From '76 on, all winners get a bonus in their winning margin (history doesnt look kindly on losers) -- except for GWB.
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nimh
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 10:57 am
DrewDad wrote:
The outcome looks pretty ugly to me.... Wink

Content-wise or design-wise?
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 11:31 am
Dookiestix wrote:
I guess that explains Bush Jr.'s whopping 35% approval rating. But this comes as no surprise.

The tide is turning...

Perhaps you should talk after you actually win something.
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Dookiestix
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 12:06 pm
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
I guess that explains Bush Jr.'s whopping 35% approval rating. But this comes as no surprise.

The tide is turning...

Perhaps you should talk after you actually win something.

How soon we forget Connecticut.

I'd stop drinking if I were you.
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 01:00 pm
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
I guess that explains Bush Jr.'s whopping 35% approval rating. But this comes as no surprise.

The tide is turning...

Perhaps you should talk after you actually win something.

How soon we forget Connecticut.

I'd stop drinking if I were you.

Some Republican was defeated recently in Connecticut?
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Dookiestix
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 01:06 pm
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
I guess that explains Bush Jr.'s whopping 35% approval rating. But this comes as no surprise.

The tide is turning...

Perhaps you should talk after you actually win something.

How soon we forget Connecticut.

I'd stop drinking if I were you.

Some Republican was defeated recently in Connecticut?

No, Einstein, the anti-war, anti-incumbent, anti-Washington and anti-Republican war mongering voters won.

But you know, Joe might as well be a Republican. Why else is he now garnering the support of Republicans across the country, including the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, and the rest of those wingnut windbags?
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 01:09 pm
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
I guess that explains Bush Jr.'s whopping 35% approval rating. But this comes as no surprise.

The tide is turning...

Perhaps you should talk after you actually win something.

How soon we forget Connecticut.

I'd stop drinking if I were you.

Some Republican was defeated recently in Connecticut?

No, Einstein, the anti-war, anti-incumbent, anti-Washington and anti-Republican war mongering voters won.

But you know, Joe might as well be a Republican. Why else is he now garnering the support of Republicans across the country, including the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, and the rest of those wingnut windbags?

Like I said, when you win an election, get back to me.
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Dookiestix
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 01:11 pm
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
I guess that explains Bush Jr.'s whopping 35% approval rating. But this comes as no surprise.

The tide is turning...

Perhaps you should talk after you actually win something.

How soon we forget Connecticut.

I'd stop drinking if I were you.

Some Republican was defeated recently in Connecticut?

No, Einstein, the anti-war, anti-incumbent, anti-Washington and anti-Republican war mongering voters won.

But you know, Joe might as well be a Republican. Why else is he now garnering the support of Republicans across the country, including the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, and the rest of those wingnut windbags?

Like I said, when you win an election, get back to me.

When you learn what a primary is and what's at stake, perhaps I will. :wink:
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 01:13 pm
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
I guess that explains Bush Jr.'s whopping 35% approval rating. But this comes as no surprise.

The tide is turning...

Perhaps you should talk after you actually win something.

How soon we forget Connecticut.

I'd stop drinking if I were you.

Some Republican was defeated recently in Connecticut?

No, Einstein, the anti-war, anti-incumbent, anti-Washington and anti-Republican war mongering voters won.

But you know, Joe might as well be a Republican. Why else is he now garnering the support of Republicans across the country, including the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, and the rest of those wingnut windbags?

Like I said, when you win an election, get back to me.

When you learn what a primary is and what's at stake, perhaps I will. :wink:

I'll reduce to baby talk what was blindingly obvious to begin with. When one of your candidates is elected to office, get back to me.
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nimh
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 03:53 pm
Yeah it is interesting material, isnt it, this poll...?

What I forgot to do was to add the title/subject of the poll in regular text, so Google might pick up on this thread:

Poll: How Americans would vote in a rerun of previous presidential elections
Source: Scripps Howard News Service / Ohio University, July 6 - 24, 2006

The table in the opening post of this thread adds the actual historical election results for comparison with what the poll shows people would vote in retrospect, and details the change between them and the change in the margin between the two main candidates.

Anyone want to comment? Observations, personal reactions?
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 03:56 pm
Did they only poll people who were allowed to vote in the original election?
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nimh
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 03:59 pm
DrewDad wrote:
Did they only poll people who were allowed to vote in the original election?

Good question.

No, at Angus Reid where they posted the poll it only says, re methodology, "Telephone interviews with 1,010 American adults".

See if I can find more.
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old europe
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 04:02 pm
Well, even though those polled were asked about past elections, what we get with this poll is a snapshot of the current situation (obvioulsy). It would be intesting to compare similar data during the presidency of previous presidents... For example, during the Lewinsky scandal, was there a similar reaction observable, and just the historical distance casts a more favorable light on the presidency of Clinton?
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 04:05 pm
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
Brandon9000 wrote:
Dookiestix wrote:
I guess that explains Bush Jr.'s whopping 35% approval rating. But this comes as no surprise.

The tide is turning...

Perhaps you should talk after you actually win something.

How soon we forget Connecticut.

I'd stop drinking if I were you.

Some Republican was defeated recently in Connecticut?


yup, Joe Leiberman....
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nimh
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 04:36 pm
nimh wrote:
DrewDad wrote:
Did they only poll people who were allowed to vote in the original election?

Good question.

No, at Angus Reid where they posted the poll it only says, re methodology, "Telephone interviews with 1,010 American adults".

See if I can find more.

Nope. The website of the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University has a page about the survey that the questions about past elections were part of, which has the questions and the number of respondents for each but not much else. It has links promising the SPSS files of the survey data, but they dont work.
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joefromchicago
 
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Reply Thu 10 Aug, 2006 04:41 pm
I definitely would vote for Martin van Buren this time around.
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