Unit 2 Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Mass Media

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/16/politics/cnn-poll-isis-obama-approval/index.html

On February 16, 2015 CNN/ORC released a poll involving the President Barack Obama and his decision on handling ISIS. The poll has 1,027 people interviewed; some were interviewed through landlines and some through cellular phone. The poll included white people and African Americans. The question asked was “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling on terrorism…, ISIS, the Islamic militant group that controls some areas of Iraq and Syria…, foreign affairs…, the situation in Ukraine.., and the security of the nation’s electronic information…” and other question involving Congress, Presidents authority and etc. In the end, the survey showed most percentages of approval to the Presidents handling and other decisions like the President having authority over the military is losing support from the public. The margin of sample error of the poll is 3%.

The poll involving President Barack Obama against ISIS is scientific and accurate, because it has two characteristics for an accurate poll, random sampling and the wording of their question preventing influence to the person answer being interviewed. Few other characteristics are the total of people interviewed 1,027 people, which is a good amount of people being interview for an accurate poll. The results of the poll from the public show it has stability, because it has not changed much from the previous survey with the same question from a few months ago. Also the poll shows that about half of the people in the United States support the President Barack Obama’s decision against ISIS.