Enough already with approval ratings!

Democrats and progressive bloggers are becoming way, way too enamored of citing approval ratings and other poll results. Generally speaking, they should not be used in political argument at all. It’s not that Cheney has a 9% approval rating, as Reid emphasized as a reason not to engage in name-calling in his counter-attack, but the fact that Cheney is always wrong and most Americans are catching on to that.

It reminds me of people who say a 7-game series is “over” because a team is up 2-0. It also feeds into the meme that Democrats have no principles, and develop their policies by polls. It says, I’m right because more Americans agree with me than not. That’s a crappy argument. I guess Bush was really a fantastic President when his approval rating was 90%.