Sanders to headline progressive 'People's Summit'

[George II]

59. Another skewed poll. For one thing, the poll didn't ask for "popularity", it asked for "approval"!

On top of that, the respondents were asked to rate only THEIR Senators........i.e., only two of 100 Senators, they weren't asked to compare their Senators to the other 98 Senators.

So, 80% of the respondents in the country's second least populous state like him. That really doesn't say much, nor does it have any bearing on any Senators' overall "popularity" or approval outside of their own states.

Also, look at the top ten Senators, the states they represent, and the population in each (of 51, including DC):

1) Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) (49th lowest)
2) Susan Collins (R-Maine) (41st lowest)
3) John Hoeven (R-N.D.) (48th lowest)
4) Angus King (I-Maine) (41st lowest)
5) Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) (49th lowest)
6) Thomas Carper (D-Del.) (45th lowest)
7) Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) (21st lowest)
8) John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) (51st lowest)
9) Al Franken (D-Minn.) (41st lowest)
10) Chris Coons (D-Del.) (45th lowest)

So the conclusion one can draw from this skewed poll is that the top "popular" Senators are very popular in, for the most part, the smallest states in the country population-wise.

In fact, this was the conclusion drawn by the linked article:

"There is a common trend in the top 10. Small state Senators are more popular than large state Senators. This could be because residents of smaller states have more individual contact with their Senators than those who live in more populous states."

Let's put in into another perspective, since there are 626,000 people in Vermont, we can extrapolate from this "poll" that 500,800 Vermonters consider him "popular" (or approve of him). On the other hand, Chuck Schumer's "popularity" or approval rate among New Yorkers is 62%. With a population of 19,600,000 that means that 12,100,000 New Yorkers approve of their Senator. That's 20 times the number of people who approve of Sanders.

So, you see how skewed and irrelevant this so-called poll is?