Scariest Poll, Ever!

[rapunzel]

This poll, well...it is just scary to me. I've been a big believer in common ground, bipartisanship, and all the other kumbaya stuff...but this poll makes me fear I've been a bit of a Pollyanna -- so I'd love to hear some of the conservative voices chime in. Does this strike you as true?

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Ultimately, these results explain why it is impossible for elected Republicans to work with Democrats to improve our country. Their base are conspiracy mongers who don't believe Obama was born in the United States, that he is the second coming of Lenin, and that he is racist against white people. They already want to impeach him despite the glaringly obvious lack of high crimes or misdemeanors.

 

[scooterbug44]

Well, I'm not a conservative, but since they know I voted for him I hear a lot.

Impeaching him, thinking he wasn't actually born in the US, that Palin is qualified, and he is a communist are totally off base in Scooterbugland (where they hang republican national convention ornaments on the Xmas tree BTW), but concerns about health care, the budget, civility in discourse, and many other items are sadly spot on to a varying degree.

Overall though, this poll is insane - I severely question WHO they polled to get these results. It is so ridonkulous that I think it is fake or propaganda.

 

[Minnie]

A couple of years ago you could have changed the specifics and the name to Bush and it would have been just as one sided and untrue as this.

I don't buy it. I think the media and the internet feed this division, I think most everyone, in America today wants the same thing.

They probably do not agree on how to achieve these same goals, but what they want is very similiar.

 

[30ashopper]

This poll, well...it is just scary to me. I've been a big believer in common ground, bipartisanship, and all the other kumbaya stuff...but this poll makes me fear I've been a bit of a Pollyanna -- so I'd love to hear some of the conservative voices chime in. Does this strike you as true?

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Should public school students be taught that the book of Genesis in the Bible explains how God created the world?
Yes 77
No 15
Not Sure 8

So at least we know who Kos was targetting when he did the poll. The rest of the answers make perfect sense in this context.

 

[Teresa]

A couple of years ago you could have changed the specifics and the name to Bush and it would have been just as one sided and untrue as this.

I don't buy it. I think the media and the internet feed this division, I think most everyone, in America today wants the same thing.

They probably do not agree on how to achieve these same goals, but what they want is very similiar.

I would agree, but what some want is NOT similar at all. ask the email senders in my inbox.

 

[tsutcli]

The Daily Kos!!!!!!!! Give me a break.

 

[Minnie]

Skeptic Sniff at Daily Kos Poll

Skeptics Sniff at Daily Kos Poll | The Atlantic Wire

By Jake Simpson on February 04, 2010 11:16am
If you believe the liberal Daily Kos's recent poll of "self-identified Republicans", the conservative base is off its collective rocker. The poll produced some shockers--that 63 percent of respondents think President Obama is a socialist, for example, and that 39 percent think he should be impeached. This confirmed what many liberal bloggers suspected, with Daily Kos editor Markos Moulitsas crowing, "these results explain why it is impossible for elected Republicans to work with Democrats to improve our country."

Tootsie I guess that varies with the territory. I consider myself an Independent, I do not vote along party lines. I vote for the person. However I have friends that are devout Republicans and devout Democrats, and when you dig away the retoric, they want the same things. I am sorry you get these horrible emails. My friends know better than to send me crap and they are the only ones with my email address.

I do get emails from Mrs. Obama and I do enjoy them greatly.

Right now most everyone I know wants the economy to turn around.

It does bother me that there is little respect for the President, as I feel he is due that. But so was Bush. However I doubt you will find many democrats willing to be that gracious.

Sometimes I feel like that many Republicans feel Bush was so badly thrashed they have to thrash back now.

Sad thing is big business runs the US now, very little the President can accomplish regardless of how hard he tries and I feel he is really trying.

I am sure you can find Republicans that support this poll and just as many that don't.

 

[Mango]

The poll scares me less than the comments passed by the author of the Blog. How can there be any partisanship when a simple poll yields such vitriol?

 

[John R]

...state of Dumbfukistan. Classic.

 

[tsutcli]

Why is it the corporations are always the ones taking a bashing when it is the trial lawyers and unions who are worse when it comes to influence peddling. A survey by the Center for Responsive Politics found that while corp. gave more money to politcians they gave in almost equal amounts to reps and dems (51/49). No for-profit co. is going to intentionaly offend a significant segment of their customers and create the jobs in this country. The unions on the other hand gave about 1/2 as much but 92% to dems and 8% to reps. and don't care about offending anyone since they contribute so little to society and certainly don't create anything of value. They tear down by their actions - just look at what they did to the car companies, steel, etc..