Gallup’s track record has been less than stellar in the recent past, but even if this new poll is slightly off, it still illustrates a larger point that approval ratings are remaining static in the midst of this barrage of fake scandals because conservatives are only here for the entertainment.
“The amount of attention Americans are paying to the IRS and the Benghazi situations is well below the average for news stories Gallup has tracked over the years,” Frank Newport, Gallup’s editor in chief, wrote in his analysis of the data. “This overall lack of attention is due in part to Democrats’ and, to a lesser degree, independents’ lack of interest, which stands in sharp contrast to the significantly above-average attention among Republicans.”
Republicans are more engaged than Democrats or independents. Sixty-seven percent of GOP voters are closely watching the IRS situation, and 66 percent said the same about Benghazi.
There’s no there, there in the case of Benghazi. If there is any scandal at all in the AP leak investigation, it’s that the Department of Justice cast too wide of a net, but that’s more or less a matter of opinion. And in the case of the IRS we now know that several democratic organizations received the same scrutiny as Tea Party groups. If there was any wrongdoing on the part of the IRS, it was probably isolated to low level staffers acting independently.
There’s not much to go on here, but the speculation and the questions are very entertaining, aren’t they?
Turn on Hannity and pass the popcorn.