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Thread #115883   Message #2962592
Posted By: Little Hawk
11-Aug-10 - 01:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
"85% of liberals approve of the job Obama is doing to 12% disapproving"

Huh???? How the heck does one determine, when doing such a poll, who is really a "liberal"? What are the criteria? Where does it begin and end? Is it just based on what the person says they are (which might or might not be true) or do all liberals in the USA have a large blue "L" printed on their foreheads and wear blue ties and drink Perrier? ;-) What the heck IS an American liberal, really???? How do we determine that? Who decides? And does he or she resemble a liberal in most other places? Maybe not! And if so, how much?

Polls are such nonsense. Most of them, I think, are quite carefully planned ahead of time, worded in just the right way to elicit the kind of response the pollster hopes to get.

Both the Right and the Left are guilty of using polls in that fashion.

It reminds me of that ridiculous old ad "9 out of 10 doctors prefer Camels (cigarettes)"   Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.