Glenn Beck: Not As Popular As He’d Like You To Think
September 24, 2009 at 9:05 AM Leave a comment
Or as popular as the corporate media would like you to think.
Nate Silver, over at FiveThirtyEight, a guy who loves to tinker with numbers, took a hard look at some of the numbers contained in the most recent NBC/WSJ poll:
Buried in the cross-tabs of the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is a question that takes a temperature reading of Glenn Beck. Beck actually makes out pretty well. While just 24 percent of Americans have a favorable view of him (13 percent strongly so), only 19 percent have an unfavorable one (14 percent strongly). That leaves 57 percent who either don’t know Beck or are indifferent toward him.
So, 57 percent either don’t know Beck or are indifferent and 19 percent have an unfavorable view of him. That means 76 percent don’t know who he is, they’re indifferent, or they don’t like him. Who knew? Given all the attention he gets, you’d think it was the other way around.
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