Has Anyone Told Kos?

Has Anyone Told Kos? - Powerline discusses the latest poll results:

It's not a shock, obviously, but the latest New York Times/CBS poll shows President Bush with a 58% approval vs. 33% disapproval rating. This is up from 52% approval just a week before Saddam's capture.

They go on to note that Bush's numbers on the economy are teetering on the brink of 50% approval.

One of the bigger liberal blogs is The Daily Kos. Kos made a bit of a splash by displaying, day by day, the evolving picture in the polls - as long as they showed George Bush dropping. All the blogs that aped Kos hung on these polls, posting rafts of "Bush's Popularity Drops" articles with every twitch from "superhuman" down to merely "better than most first-term president at this point in his term".

So after reading Powerline, I went to read Kos' digest of polls, and...

...what the...?

He hasn't updated them since early November! Which is...

...about the time the slide stopped?

I'm sure there's an innocent explanation, but I'd really like to hear what it is. Kos supporters?

As Jeff Fecke would say: "Huh".

Posted by Mitch at December 17, 2003 05:57 AM