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Post by beth on Mar 28, 2010 20:33:33 GMT
Their balance problem has to do with who they poll, das. Almost always more Republicans. I think there's vested interest involved at Rasmussen. JMO
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Post by iamjumbo on Mar 28, 2010 21:29:13 GMT
What matters Beth is which one is most often correct when the votes are counted. Rasmussen is tops in accuracy. no, they are NOT. when there is something like an election, where the only question is "who are you voting for", they, along with everyone else are accurate. with polls where they ask stupid questions that are totally irrelevant to the subject, as rasmussen ALWAYS does, they are never accurate
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Mar 28, 2010 22:51:38 GMT
Stop it Jumbo. I previously posted an article confirming that Rasmussen had the most accurate polling prior to the last Presidential Election. He called it with the most accuracy. Polling is not about political preference, it's about accuracy. Rasmussen wins there.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 7, 2010 0:52:36 GMT
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday April 6, 2010 shows that 32% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10 (see trends). Congratulations to Obama. He's on the upswing.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of voters nationwide favor repeal of the recently passed health care law. The issue is having an impact early in the election 2010 season. Harry Reid is struggling in Nevada, a state where 62% of voters favor repeal. In Kentucky, 65% support repeal and Republican candidates have a big edge in that open seat race.
Hopefully we'll be able to say goodbye to Harry Reid and his ilk in November.
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Post by beth on Apr 7, 2010 2:38:24 GMT
Kentucky is a red state for the most part, das. A border state where many people have the usual prejudices and quite a few more are the standard Jr. League and country club Republicans. Those of us with more sense know we're spitting in the wind on election day, but we go, do the right thing and feel batter for it. If the Republicans keep splintering apart between the old standard Conservative and the Palin/Limbaugh pawns, you may have more to worry about than you suspect.
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Post by clemiethedog on Apr 7, 2010 11:22:03 GMT
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.” – Mark Twain
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 7, 2010 21:11:20 GMT
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 from RasmussenReports.com For the second straight week, 35% of U.S. voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
After the passage of the health care bill, optimism in the nation’s current course spiked nine points last week, reaching the highest level measured since early September 2009.
This uptick in optimism has been consistent with a similar bounce in President Obama's job approval ratings in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. The jump in confidence in the nation's direction is due primarily to an increase in enthusiasm among Democrats since Congress' passage of the national health care plan.
Sixty-three percent (63%) of Democrats are optimistic about the nation’s current course, a 15-point jump from two weeks ago. Thirty-one percent (31%) are not. Prior to the passage of the health care bill, Democrats were almost evenly divided on the question: 48% said the country was headed in the right direction, and 44% felt it was going down the wrong track.
A solid majority (88%) of GOP voters and 68% of voters not affiliated with either major party continue to think the nation is heading down the wrong track. The number of Republicans who feel this way is up 19 points from last week, while the number of unaffiliateds who feel this way has held steady.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of all voters now say the nation is heading down the wrong track, just a point above the lowest level of pessimism measured since last October.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 15, 2010 23:03:28 GMT
It's one week later and the latest Rasmussen Report shows that only 34% of US voters think we're headed in the right direction. I'm shocked that there was only a 1% drop from the previous week.
How could anyone think we're headed in the right direction with Obama and the Democrats in charge? Can one third of our citizens be that deluded?
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Post by beth on Apr 16, 2010 1:57:21 GMT
A good many of the disenchanted are progressives who believe Obama is too centrist.
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Post by clemiethedog on Apr 16, 2010 11:21:31 GMT
A good many of the disenchanted are progressives who believe Obama is too centrist. Yep. Or a too passive in fighting the Rigth Wing. His hands are sort of tied, however, because he can't afford to look like an "angry black man".
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 17, 2010 0:00:13 GMT
Beth and Clemie - You're making it overly complicated. The truth is very simple. Democrats are the problem. Republicans are the solution. Buy Ann Coulter's books. Watch Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Get educated. Get a handle on it. Stay away from the looney left propaganda sites like PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Indymedia, Pacifica Radio, Daily Kos, etc. They all suck.
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Post by beth on Apr 17, 2010 1:52:34 GMT
Beth and Clemie - You're making it overly complicated. The truth is very simple. Democrats are the problem. Republicans are the solution. Buy Ann Coulter's books. Watch Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Get educated. Get a handle on it. Stay away from the looney left propaganda sites like PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Indymedia, Pacifica Radio, Daily Kos, etc. They all suck. Aw, Das. Have you ever considered writing a book of your own? With content like this, I know I'd buy it.
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Post by clemiethedog on Apr 17, 2010 16:12:42 GMT
On getting educated, it may behoove you, DAS and your fellow right wing extremists, to read the histories of the Spanish, Dutch, and British empires. Especially the later chapters which contained all the things you cherish: deregulated markets, massive income and wealth disparity, military overreach, massive poverty coexisting with obscene wealth, cleric influence on governments, national arrogance, etc. were the common denominators.
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 17, 2010 21:38:12 GMT
Beth and Clemie - You're making it overly complicated. The truth is very simple. Democrats are the problem. Republicans are the solution. Buy Ann Coulter's books. Watch Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Get educated. Get a handle on it. Stay away from the looney left propaganda sites like PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Indymedia, Pacifica Radio, Daily Kos, etc. They all suck. normal people don't read ann's books lad, and only watch hannity and beck to get a laugh out of how utterly stupid the fools are on any given day, less than two million people are crazy enough to watch the stupidity at faux news, out of 330 million people
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 17, 2010 21:39:43 GMT
Beth and Clemie - You're making it overly complicated. The truth is very simple. Democrats are the problem. Republicans are the solution. Buy Ann Coulter's books. Watch Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Get educated. Get a handle on it. Stay away from the looney left propaganda sites like PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Indymedia, Pacifica Radio, Daily Kos, etc. They all suck. Aw, Das. Have you ever considered writing a book of your own? With content like this, I know I'd buy it. of course, only the few imbecilies who read coulter's stupidity would read das'
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Post by beth on Apr 17, 2010 22:55:12 GMT
Excuse me? I'd read it - at least a chapter or so. Das is very amusing at times.
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Post by Big Lin on Apr 17, 2010 23:43:32 GMT
Come on, BA, if you seriously believe that every single Republican is good and every single Democrat is bad then you need to get a reality check.
If I was an American citizen I'd have voted Republican in 2008, 2000, and 1996. Not sure about 1992 but would have gone for Kerry in 2004.
Overall the Democrats haven't had a good candidate for years but then the Republicans have hardly shone either. Ronald Reagan in particular combined total stupidity with total evil and conscious treason in a way that was rare even among politicians.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 18, 2010 0:12:19 GMT
Lin of course I don't believe every single Republican is good. There are a lot of people who identify themselves as Republicans that I have zero respect for. This includes the religious element, the anti-abortion element, the gun boys, etc. The Republicans are far from perfect that's for sure. But compared to the Democrats they're geniuses.
Take a look at this Michael Moore video. He happens to be one of the leading Democrats. What a complete and total moron! I just can't imagine anyone being stupid enough to buy any of Moore's crap.
We should arrest Moore, try him for treason, convict him as the America hater that he is, and parachute him into Cuba (so they won't have the option of refusing his immigration. He'll be much happier there and we'll be so much better off without him.
Stupid things Michael Moore said:
1. Capitalism is a legal system If you are going to make a movie about something shouldn’t you know what the word means? Just as a beginning point at least. A quick Wikipedia search of the word tells you that it is an “economic and social system,” not a legal system. To be sure there is a legal structure that is needed to make capitalism work properly, but that doesn’t make capitalism a legal system itself.
2. Regulation and rules that use to keep them in check are no longer keeping them in check There are no more regulations? That’s news to me. I think it would also be news to the thousands of small and large companies that have to suffer increased costs due to mind numbingly dumb regulations.
3. Rich having more is anti-democracy What is anti-democratic about someone having more stuff than me? Or even having a lot more stuff than me? I guess it is only democracy if we all have the same amount of stuff...oh wait isn’t that called something else?
4. Not only against democracy but against his personal values This I admit is a bit of a cheap shot, but did you notice how he made a distinction between his values and democratic values?
5. Against the values of people Yes because lord knows that capitalism goes against the very fiber of America society. The free exchange of goods and services is universally condemned by every right thinking American. The USA hates freedom and capitalism that’s for sure. That’s why they were so friendly with the Soviet Union.
6. Jesus wouldn’t approve of a hedge fund How the hell does he know what Jesus would think? Capitalism wasn’t even an abstract concept when Jesus was alive, so how can we possible discern his opinion on that never mind his opinion on hedge funds. You know what, 2 can play at this game. Jesus hates tax collectors therefore Jesus likes capitalism.
7. Replace capitalism with democracy What the hell? Democracy is a political system. It isn’t even a legal system. So how can he even conceptualize replacing capitalism with democracy? What do we do? Vote on what job someone will get, how much they get paid, how much his groceries will cost, and so on?
8. How can we call it a democracy just because we vote Because that’s what democracy means? Sure there has to be a couple more requirements to fully qualify as a democracy in most people’s minds; such as competitive elections and the rule of law. But voting is the fundamental core of every democratic system.
9. Don’t want to lose his democratic rights when he goes to work in the morning or go to the bank At this point it is pretty clear he doesn’t know what the word democratic means. Even the Greeks wouldn’t stretch it to include commercial activity. He is just using it as a buzz word to avoid using the word socialism. This kind of demonstrates just how stupid #5 is.
10. Stop the debate between capitalism and socialism Umm...okay? One system is based on voluntary individualism and the other is based on coercive collectivism. There may be a wide spectrum between two extremes but how exactly do you propose breaking this paradigm? Wouldn’t involving democratic voting in commercial activity just lead to the coercive model? Or did you think people wouldn’t notice?
11. We are smart enough to come up with a new system that is fair to all people Demonstrably untrue; people have been trying to do this for thousands of years. Why do you think just because it is a new century we are suddenly smarter? I’ve seen no indication of this increased intelligence.
12. It’s time to start sticking up for the little guy in this country This isn’t so much stupid in itself but stupid in the context of the rest of the clip. Socialism does not benefit the little guy. And let’s be real here, it is socialism and not some sort of commercial democracy that Michael Moore is advocating. Every socialist system has shown that it ultimately benefits a select group of elites. You want to protect the little guy’s interests? Protect capitalism.
What a complete total friggin moron. And sadly I suspect many of our Democrats share his views.
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 18, 2010 14:58:01 GMT
Excuse me? I'd read it - at least a chapter or so. Das is very amusing at times. yeah, but for the same reason that i watch the imbeciles on faux news like hannity. their stupidity is amusing, like a car wreck is fascinating
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 18, 2010 23:10:36 GMT
Jumbo - there are major differences between Fox News and the left-wing propaganda sites (CNN, PBS,ABC,MSNBC,CBS,AL Jazeera, etc.). The main differences are that Fox presents a factual and accurate picture of world events. The have guests from both sides of the issue whenever there is an editorial opinion program. Bill O'Reilly's program is a perfect example. He almost always has a guest with a dissenting view. That virtually never happens with the 'in your pocket' Democratic National Committee message distribution programs like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann.
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