You don't get a much better takedown of the DC media elite and Republicans than this. It's a double whammy from Jane Hamsher and Markos. Jane deconstructs the DC media's love of the "GOP obstructionists" and Markos has the research that shows those DC media types are just wrong. This a great way to start the day:
There appears to be a pretty big gap between what DC journalists think Americans think, and what Americans actually think. No better example of this can be found than the "winners" and "losers" that DC media are proclaiming in the wake of the passage of the stimulus bill, and what DailyKos/Research 2000 polling on the subject indicates.Read Jane's post and look at Markos' polling and analysis. Then, everytime you see one of the talking heads bloviate or the pundits pontificate, you'll know they are just plain wrong. Wrong.
Frank Rich also looked at real research and had a similar analysis on Sunday:
In any event, the final score was unambiguous. The stimulus package arrived with the price tag and on roughly the schedule Obama had set for it. The president’s job approval percentage now ranges from the mid 60s (Gallup, Pew) to mid 70s (CNN) — not bad for a guy who won the presidency with 52.9 percent of the vote. While 48 percent of Americans told CBS, Gallup and Pew that they approve of Congressional Democrats, only 31 (Gallup), 32 (CBS) and 34 (Pew) percent could say the same of their G.O.P. counterparts.
