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Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:00 am
by Headhunter
Approval rating in the 30s while 47% want him impeached. :lol:

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:10 am
by Jason
That is actually fantastic news.

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:36 am
by showa58taro
Jason wrote:That is actually fantastic news.
Finally coming round to the need for him to resign?

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 3:27 am
by Jason
If his approval rating is great, he's probably doing a poor job.
If his approval rating is poor, he's probably doing a great job.

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 6:40 am
by showa58taro
Jason wrote:If his approval rating is great, he's probably doing a poor job.
If his approval rating is poor, he's probably doing a great job.
That isn't a thing in any context. Unless you assume Americans love failure and hate success. Which it seems is pretty unlikely.

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 7:09 am
by Tiggnutz
showa58taro wrote:
Jason wrote:If his approval rating is great, he's probably doing a poor job.
If his approval rating is poor, he's probably doing a great job.
That isn't a thing in any context. Unless you assume Americans love failure and hate success. Which it seems is pretty unlikely.
Who's happiest the kid who has to work for his allowance or the kid who gets his for doing nothing. Which kid is better off in the long run.

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:18 am
by Reign in Blood
Yeah, Obama's rating was through the roof when the helpless sheep thought he was gonna pay for their rent and gas and shiz. Worked out well! :!:

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:25 am
by Tiggnutz
I just had a premonition someone is going to post " so everyone who disapproves of Trump is looking for a handout? " :lol:

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:33 am
by Foo
Approval ratings! brought to you by the sane people who guaranteed a Hillary victory.

The big issue with approval ratings is they are presented as a metric as to how well the president is doing. They are just a starting point for discussion, not a verdict.

For instance, a person could disapprove if Trump because of the way he communicates as president, but like his policy stances. Or, perhaps someone else hates everything about him.

In both of those, approval doesn't really matter because the first guy is not gonna suddenly support Democrats and the second guy already voted for Hillary in a losing effort.

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:37 am
by showa58taro
Oh man, you guys were serious? Was not ready for that.

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:39 am
by showa58taro
To be honest, Foo says something quite true in that there are varying degrees of approving or disapproving. It does t have to mean anything cataclysmic. I can buy this. But the idea that a metric used for decades should now be used the wrong way round seems like the height of folly to me.

Also I still can't work out why you'd think low approval was a good thing even by the "people aren't getting freebies" metric. As you'd assume most of society doesn't get a freebie and that this would correlate to record approvals.

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:33 am
by Tiggnutz
Approval ratings are pointless and who were all these people who thought Obama was doing a good job because I never met any of them. Did they just ask Seb a million times if he approved.

Re: When the war is over but soldiers keep fighting it

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:19 am
by showa58taro
Tiggnutz wrote:Approval ratings are pointless and who were all these people who thought Obama was doing a good job because I never met any of them. Did they just ask Seb a million times if he approved.
Yup. I always said I did. Because Obama was a God among mortals and never did anything wrong.