Minimal analysis but fully sourced. Neglects to report that the poll shows generally improving results for the President and his party, which the exception of the story subject, the Iraq war.

This story reports one CNN poll, mainly by adding together the responses of individuals participating in the poll and presenting the total as percentages. Several times, the authors characterized the poll result using terms like "most" Americans or "tepid" poll numbers. for me, the word "most" does not accurately characterize the 54% of Americans to which it refers. When one actually looks at the poll results, the responses don't seem to have changed much in the last 4 months, and ... More »

Reporting numbers and sources is more expository writing than it is real journalism. And as the late Tom Dewey might have warned: beware of pollisters and their numbers.

Reasonable poll. Useful information.