Launch of the "America's Mood" Computed Index

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I compute "America's Mood" index [%] as a weighted average of three indices, based on three of Gallup's Daily Averages: Obama Job Approval, Economic Confidence, and Consumer Spending, each of those three expressed as a % of its corresponding 52-week spread.

My choices of weights are 1/6, 1/3, and 1/2 for "Approval", "Confidence", and "Spending", respectively.

The color-coded mood characterizations, based on the computed index values [%] are:

•  90% <  index  ≤ 100% Ecstasy!
•  80% <  index  ≤   90% Am I dreaming?
•  70% <  index  ≤   80% You had me at bacon
•  60% <  index  ≤   70% Gone fishing
•  50% <  index  ≤   60% Neither fish ...
•  40% <  index  ≤   50% ... nor fowl
•  30% <  index  ≤   40% Foul
•  20% <  index  ≤   30% FML
•  10% <  index  ≤   20% WTF?
•    0% ≤  index  ≤   10% Rage!

For example, "America's Mood" Computed Index for August 15, 2010 was shown in my blog's masthead (upper-left corner of main page) as:

America's Mood Today
22% (computed index)
FML (mood)

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