[107610] in Cypherpunks
Re: Gallup says go back to sleep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burnes - Denver)
Tue Jan 19 14:56:12 1999
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:38:02 -0700 (MST)
From: Jim Burnes - Denver <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
cc: Jim Burnes - Denver <jim.burnes@ssds.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990119111502.008aecf0@idiom.com>
Reply-To: Jim Burnes - Denver <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:15:02 -0800
> From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
> To: Jim Burnes - Denver <jim.burnes@ssds.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
> Subject: Re: Gallup says go back to sleep
>
> At 09:28 AM 1/19/99 -0700, Jim Burnes - Denver wrote:
> >...81% .. a success. But only 24%, .. honest and trustworthy.
> Amazing - you still can fool some of the people all the time :-)
>
> >Apparently job approval ratings now mean "has his presidency been a success?".
> >I have no idea what that means. What would be the conditions of failure?
>
> As always, "It's the economy, stupid!"
> Just as crypto is largely about economics, politics is largely about
> whether the public is generally happy and prosperous - a president
Yeah. Pretty strange. Unless the president does something tremendously
stupid, the economy has nothing to do with him. He's the chief executive
etc etc. The economy, such as it is, is more dependent on Alan
Greenspan than Bill Clinton (thank Eris ;-)
In any case, Bill *is* the King. He is the man from whom all
good bounty floweth.
Another reason why polls are worthless.
Jim
