RealClearPolitics tracks some polls this month (including Rasmussen) and shows the average to be a generic D over a generic R by 1.6 – which suggests to me that whatever she was referring to was generally more on the mark than the Rasmussen poll you want to single out as evidence that she’s wrong.

And it’s all pretty odd because the poll #’s she cited were going to her point that the Republicans were doing better now than they were a few months ago. If you want to take the Rasmussen poll at face value, it doesn’t contradict her point; it makes her point.

Reactionary, I appreciate you saying that you appreciate Dr. Davis’s analysis and enjoy reading her posts. I am hearing the same from many other readers, and I enjoy them myself.

You say she delivers “delivers blue dot Democrat talking points.” FWIW, I’m not sure that Obama’s “inability to transfer popularity either to performance ratings or other candidates” is a blue dot talking point. Or that the White House is trumpeting her observation that the Dems’ “GOTV did not work.” Or “if the President cannot help Democrats in a BLUE state, where can he help? The White House has to be concerned about this.” Is that a blue dot Democrat talking point?

I do think there has been some misunderstanding about “purple” in the title “Purple Dot Connection” and that folks could put a little more emphasis on “Connection.” I encourage readers to remember (or reread) her first post here where she writes, “‘The Purple Dot Connection’ is my effort to have a conversation about politics which relies on civil discourse” and “I hope to raise some issues and talk about politics in a way that suggests we can all be part of one conversation.”

We’re red, we’re blue, together we’re purple, and we can be a part of a conversation, a connection. Civilly. I like it.

And I appreciate readers who care enough about these things to weigh in. Or as Reactionary says, “Let’s just keep at it…”

So this means everyone BUT me. I see.

Kathy, my point is that Davis promoted this diary as “the middle”, and delivers blue dot Democrat talking points (maybe she meant “the middle” of the Democratic Party). “Americans love the President”? Is that really a neutral analysis of a 56% (and sinking) favorability rating?

I’ve made a couple of specific comments in the spirit of ‘reigning her back in’, but IMO she has not delivered commentary from the perspective of “the middle”.

Dr. Davis – calling this purple just grates on me. Otherwise, I appreciate your analysis and enjoy reading your posts.

For example, referring to Independent Senator Lieberman as “tiresome”, even though he is more representative of ‘purple’ than you, is kind of tiresome.