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Meaningless Polls

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Gallup Poll, yesterday: A new Gallup poll finds half of Americans believe the court is ?about right? ideologically, an all-time high and an increase of 7 percentage points over last year.Sixty-one percent of Americans surveyed approve of the job done by the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest level since 2001, when the court had an approval rating of 62 percent, Gallup reports.Given this Zogby poll, which famously found that 3 times as many Americans could name two of Snow White's dwarfs as could name two Supreme Court Justices, asking Americans to rate the Supreme Court's performance is a meaningless exercise.

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).