Comments on: Another worthless poll

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:52:06 +0000

Polls are propaganda operations designed to influence, control, and rape target audiences, while claiming innocence.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:07:05 +0000

Funny: I just got grilled for a Gallup poll for the first time, yesterday. It was a frustrating experience. The young man who was asking the questions was almost rude: “Brandon.” Sounded like an OWSer.

The questions were all about my business: was I making more money? less? the same? Was I hiring more people? fewer? the same? Did I have more customers? fewer? the same? etc., etc.

There was ONE question that asked what was the most important factor affecting my work, and I said “OBAMACARE.” “What?” “OBAMACARE! it’s costing me way more to pay for insurance….” and the little git cut me off.

Of course, if every question is in the “On a scale from one to five” format, it gives you a lot of bad data. For instance: if the economic climate is bad (yes), but you up your efforts to get work, you can maintain altitude by working harder, and the results won’t reflect the rotten economy. Of course, they didn’t ask whether I had had to compensate for anything.

IOW, very little about that poll will be useful in finding out what’s really going on with independent proprietors.

By: Orson

Orson — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:41:13 +0000

Agreed. And it’s scandalous – too bad Murdock or someone else don’t redress this failing.

Therefore, we have a First Amendment freedom that means increasingly less and less for matters of public interest.

It this the real plan, too?

By: Sam L.

Sam L. — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:42:30 +0000

MJR, ICallahan, and I agree with your conclusion.

By: I Callahan

I Callahan — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:33:22 +0000

I can’t believe that the WaPo and ABC can’t figure that out, so I’ll just assume their purpose is to obfuscate.

That would be the correct assumption. The media in general isn’t even hiding the fact that they’re in the tank for Obama, no matter what he does.

By: Matt_SE

Matt_SE — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:28:12 +0000

Since the legacy media won’t do their job honestly, it is left up to new media.

How about someone construct an honest poll, then distribute it to left-wing, right-wing and centrist outlets online, then tabulate the data?

*That* would be a poll worth following.

By: ConceptJunkie

ConceptJunkie — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:18:21 +0000

I think it’s fair to say that the kind of person who would support Obama in the first place isn’t going to be too critical about what Obama actually does, otherwise they wouldn’t have considered voting for him in the first place. I think that explains why, no matter how dismal Obama’s performance is, his approval never really goes below about 40%. 40% is the number of people who will support him regardless of what he does.

Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to hold their politicians to a higher standard. They are much less likely to be the “ends justifies the means” types. As a conservative, I find myself complaining about the Republicans more than about the Democrats, although not as harshly.

The Republican party doesn’t have the advantage of the “useful idiot” support the way the Democrats do. I just can’t see how the party that supports (even if it’s only talk in most cases) individual responsibility, the rule of law, and smaller government can compete against the “Vote for us and we’ll give you free stuff!” and “It’s never your fault.” and “It’s the government’s job to make you happy.” party among the Low Information Voters.

By: M J R

M J R — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:16:37 +0000

“Inquiring minds should want to know.”

Mendacious minds want inquiring minds out of their range. Even that amount of nuance is bad for The Agenda.