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Re: How can this race be so close if 80% of the country thinks...
« Reply #26 on: August 26, 2008, 07:19:19 PM »
Two polls with vastly different conclusions on a similar issue. DUers, instead of looking for other information to support one result or the other, believes the one that upholds their predetermined conclusion and then question why the other one contradicts it. Interesting way of not having to actually think about something while looking like your thinking about it.

Very old research adage: first draw your lines, then plot your points.
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Re: How can this race be so close if 80% of the country thinks...
« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2008, 07:29:33 PM »
80% may think we are on the wrong track but Limbaugh had this thing yesterday about Battleground poll question D3:

When thinking about politics and government, do you consider yourself to be… Very conservative, somewhat conservative, moderate, somewhat liberal, very liberal, unsure/refused.
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In August 2008, Americans answered that question this way:  (1) 20% of Americans considered themselves to be very conservative; (2) 40% of Americans considered themselves to be somewhat conservative--" For those of you in Rio Linda, that adds up to 60% who consider themselves conservative.  Two percent said they considered themselves to be moderate, the independents, the great moderates in American History.  Two percent of the American people consider themselves to be moderates, and yet we're told that they are 20% of the electorate.  Twenty-seven percent said they were somewhat liberal, and 9% said they were very liberal.  That's a total of 36% to 60.  Sixty percent conservative, 30% liberal.  Question D3, Battleground Poll, five days ago.  Three percent of Americans did not know or refused to answer. 

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linky to the article Limbaugh was reading

So, if 80% think we are on the wrong track and 60% consider themselves conservative or somewhat conservative, then it has to be when Republicans and Democrats force liberalism down our gullets, we think the country is on the wrong track.

The biggest problem with "right track/wrong track" is every individual is going to have different criteria in mind, it is like Generic Democrat Candidate vs. known Republican candidate.
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