Move over, Satan!

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In a recent AP-AOL poll asking Americans — AMERICANS — to rate our country’s top villains, Dubya whupped all competitors, including Bin Laden, Kim Jong Il, and Satan. Don’t Floss with Tinsel has the video.

Now, hold on, wait a sec . . . the MoE is plus/minus 3%. That means Bush might have had only 22% of the vote, while Bin Laden, his nearest competitor, might have had 11%.

Nope. It’s still a 2:1 wipeout.

But hot damn. I think Dubya has finally found something he’s really, really good at: villainy.

D.

, February 5, 2007. Category: Humor, Political rants.

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4 Comments

  1. shaina says:
    February 6, 2007 at 7:29 am

    sweet.

  2. fiveandfour says:
    February 7, 2007 at 7:35 am

    That’s just….WOW…so sadly funny.

    So it only takes bungling the capture of a major terrorist leader, refusing a humane response to a natural disaster (hey -vacations are important – we get it!), sinking the nation into debt for several generations with specious tax cuts for people who don’t need them, and miring us into an unwinnable war of insidious intent for the light bulb to turn on over the collective cartoon panel that is the U.S. public.

    Not that I mean to brag about any superior skills of discernment or anything, but frankly, he had me at “hello”.

  3. CalifSherry says:
    March 12, 2007 at 5:58 pm

    I get the result, but think you misunderstand MoE. Two snips from wiki
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error

    The margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey’s results. The larger the margin of error, the less confidence one should have that the poll’s reported results are close to the “true” figures; that is, the figures for the whole population….Like confidence intervals, the margin of error can be defined for any desired confidence level, but usually a level of 90%, 95% or 99% is chosen (typically 95%). This level is the probability that a margin of error around the reported percentage would include the “true” percentage. Along with the confidence level, the sample design for a survey, and in particular its sample size, determines the magnitude of the margin of error. A larger sample size produces a smaller margin of error, all else remaining equal. Your conclusion sitll holds… but it’s a useful bit to know.

  4. Walnut says:
    March 12, 2007 at 8:04 pm

    Interesting. But 3% is a small MoE for a poll, no?