Polling Silliness

I saw a Twitter item from Jake Tapper this morning announcing that the new ABC/Washington Post poll had Obama's approval number at 69%. I sent him a note back mentioning that Rasmussen has the approval number at 54%, and how could they be that far apart. Tapper sent this back:

For ABC News/WaPo poll...sampling: unleaned D-R-I is 35-21-38; leaned is 53-37.

No wonder. Including so few Republicans is bound to return numbers like that.

Yesterday an AP poll came out showing similar high numbers for Obama. That survey had only included 18% Republicans and 36% Dems.

Are you picking up a pattern here? Looks like it's more than just moronic artists who want to make Obama look good on his 100th day.