Polls Mean Nothing....That's Why Voting is a MUST....

I read an interesting editorial in USA Today called "A president's midpoint polls can be deceiving". The editorial is USA Today's view on this issue. This was an editorial about how presidential midpoint polls, don't necessarily mean that that President will get re-elected or not. That was the conclusion.

They talked about what the President's 2nd State of the Union Address is supposed to mean. They said it is like a re-election bid. They also said it "provides an excuse to evaluate his first two years". To be honest, I never knew what the main reason for a State of the Union Address was. I did know it usually interrupted my tv shows though. I did know it had something to do with something the President had to say to the country.

USA Today stated that President Obama's approval rating dropped a bit and now is back at 50%. They talked about past presidents approval ratings. According to Gallup, they explained, the 1st President Bush had the best poll numbers after two years. His rating was a whopping 82%. They go on to say that after the elder Bush went on to "lose his re-election bid to Bill Clinton". The President with the lowest rating after his 1st two years was Ronald Reagan. Even after a low rating, Reagan was re-elected by a landslide and they go on to say that even 30 years after his inauguration, Reagan is "widely regarded to have been a successful and consequential president."

With all this being said, they said Obama is in the middle among the recent presidents in the 1st two years of their presidency. The conclusion that USA Today came to was that "the polls make for interesting snapshots in time, but they are lousy crystal balls."

I agree that with this editorial because with all the polls that were taken and all the evidence showing that the polls didn't matter, Obama has a 50/50 chance of being re-elected because, according to the poll, he is at 50%. Even the president with the highest rating didn't get re-elected and the one with the lowest rating won by a big margin. That is something in itself. This is why it's a VERY good idea to vote and make your voice known.