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RASMUSSEN POLL: 375 TEXANS WOULD VOTE TO STAY IN USA (That is 75% of the 500 survey participants)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 04-17-2009 | DRUDGE

Posted on 04/17/2009 8:19:03 AM PDT by broken_arrow1

Texas Survey of 500 Likely Voters

Conducted April 16, 2009

By Rasmussen Reports

(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: constitution; secession; texas
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To: concerned about politics

Well, I’m sure they had their “Baghdad Bobs” back then, too... :-)


21 posted on 04/17/2009 8:41:23 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: broken_arrow1
The law is the law. It was illegal for Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia to leave Yugoslavia. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were Soviet states for "all eternity."

The point is, a majority of Americans have VERY deep and serious problems with a fascist Federal government in Washington D.C. that is owned by Goldman Sachs and run by a bunch of metrosexuals who HATE 95% of the people who are Americans. Its all about them, folks. And, we have become their tax paying serfs. At some point, the shit hits the fan and the people decide enough is enough. Hopefully, this will happen in November of 2010 at the ballot box. But, I'm not holding my breath because every election seems to go 50/50 and then to the leftist courts for award to the Al Frankens of the world.

Ask yourself... do you want to be fellow citizens with people who think Obama and Al Franken are leadership material? I don't.

22 posted on 04/17/2009 8:42:04 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Star Traveler
You said — Add me to the list that wants out.

I'd move to Texas in a heart beat if it happened.

23 posted on 04/17/2009 8:44:11 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: broken_arrow1

No problem. The 375 can move to Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, or Mexico. Problem solved


24 posted on 04/17/2009 8:47:10 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: April Lexington
And, we have become their tax paying serfs.

They see us as their slaves. They force us to pay everyone else's debts before we even see our paychecks. It's as if they throw us a piece of bread twice a day and expect us to be happy about it.

25 posted on 04/17/2009 8:48:02 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Hodar

it’s legit....just went here.

http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm

It gives you the sample size you would need for a given population. So for a 95% confidence and +/- 4% error you would only need a randomized sample of 600 people for a population of 27 million. Now the issue is, how did they get these 600 people?

Statistics is a beautiful thing.


26 posted on 04/17/2009 8:48:41 AM PDT by TerP26
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To: April Lexington

You were saying — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were Soviet states for “all eternity.”

And that was true for as long as there was a “Soviet Union”... But, as we all know the Soviet Union ceased to exist, as a result of *internally dissolving*... Once that happened, then various different states went their own way.

In this case, you still have a “United States” and a war was fought in which certain states *thought* they had a right to secede — but — found out that they did not have that right, and were forced back into the union and had to swear allegiance to that union and gave up the right to secede.

That’s the situation now.

BUT..., if the United States “internally dissolves” like the Soviet Union did, then all bets are off. As long as the United States exists, however, states will not be allowed to secede.


27 posted on 04/17/2009 8:49:19 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: broken_arrow1

Well, bad as things are, leaving the Union is kind of a last resort, isn’t it?

Better to take back our country than leave it.

Plus the whole thing seems to have turned into a Rick Perry moment, and I can’t get very enthusiastic about that.


28 posted on 04/17/2009 8:49:41 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: broken_arrow1

You guys should stop worrying about sample size. Polls are estimates. Nothing wrong with that. All the poll says is that roughly 1/4 of Texans would consider leaving the U.S. Maybe it’s really 30% or 20%. So what? It’s still a very big number.


29 posted on 04/17/2009 8:52:17 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: concerned about politics

“It’s gonna blow”

Want to see why graphically?

Look at this map. Absolutely amazing.

http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/


30 posted on 04/17/2009 8:56:15 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Star Traveler
Bingo! Another shooting war is insane. But, if states just get fed up and walk away. Stop participating in Federal mandates and programs and follow the Leftist path of civil disobedience, passive resistance and Rosa Parks-like focus on defeating a corrupt power structure. We can achieve this goal. It worked for Dr. Martin Luther King. It worked for Gandhi, Tutu and other civil rights leaders. It worked in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and Berlin and lots of other places. Just quit the system and walk away. Demand respect for your rights.

The government will have two choices. Soweto, where they shoot some citizens and then world pressure causes them to cave. Or, peaceful dissolution where we just go our separate ways. The world would LOVE to see the USA dissolve into smaller more manipulative states. Russia has already predicted our dissolution.

For those who still believe in the American Dream, though, you may want to start voting GOP. And, GOP... you may want to find some candidates with IQs above 16...

31 posted on 04/17/2009 8:56:20 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: broken_arrow1

As fair as he is claimed to be (Rasmussen)... this is total BS. I may have been gone for a decade, but ALL of the voices I hear and talk to back in Texas support separating from the ‘union’... unless control from the people is put back into place like the original forefathers intended.


32 posted on 04/17/2009 8:58:01 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Cicero

You said — Better to take back our country than leave it.

Plus, “Manifest Destiny” always had a nice ring to it, I thought...


33 posted on 04/17/2009 8:58:28 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: broken_arrow1

If I lived in the great state of Texas, I would vote to Secede in a heartbeat.

I don’t think they will ever would pull this off, but if it seriously looked like they were, I would pack up before breakfast and be on my way to the hill country.

Heck, I am thinking of buying a Texas flag, as Old Glory came down January 20th and will not go back up until those traitors in DC are out of power.

About 3 years ago, I had gone on a cross country trip on one of my Harley’s. I met some very good folks all across this country during our month long travels. About 30 folks in Texas made my wife and I me feel at home and treated us like royalty.... I was most impressed. I was amazed at how much those Texans love their state and know it’s rich history.

When they say, “Don’t mess with Texas”..... they truly mean it.... and I think I now know why they insist on that.


34 posted on 04/17/2009 8:58:36 AM PDT by Gator113 (I'm a PROUD RIGHT WING EXTREMIST.... Obama has failed, IMPEACH Obama NOW....)
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To: Cicero
Plus the whole thing seems to have turned into a Rick Perry moment, and I can’t get very enthusiastic about that.

He planted the seed. That's the important part.

35 posted on 04/17/2009 8:58:43 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: broken_arrow1
"Don’t bother calling, I will just shout for DHS outside my back door."

They told me to tell you they will be over just as soon as they are finished interrogating my elderly parents and ransacking the house in search of white supremacist hate literature like The Bible and old church bulletins.

36 posted on 04/17/2009 9:00:00 AM PDT by DonGrafico (Underwriting America's permanent underclass since 1975)
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To: Star Traveler

Eh... no thanks.


37 posted on 04/17/2009 9:00:03 AM PDT by TheZMan ("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
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To: broken_arrow1

As a Texan, I can say the results are probably accurate. Texans do not want to secede from the Union. They love the United States of America. However, the nature of Texans is to do what must be done. If the situation in the country continues to deteriorate and the constitution continually subverted, then...secede we will if secede we must.


38 posted on 04/17/2009 9:08:34 AM PDT by CMAC51
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To: broken_arrow1

Don’t underestimate that 25%. That’s pretty big, considering S has not really HTF yet.


39 posted on 04/17/2009 9:10:39 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: Texas Fossil

That interactive job loss map is incredible.

I’ve told family and friends back home that they ought to consider relocating to Texas because of the better economy and jobs situation here, but this map communicates it a whole lot better than I ever could.

As bad as it all seems to be, it’s interesting to note that the Southwest and Central states haven’t been hit nearly as hard as the Eastern states and California.

No coincidence there.


40 posted on 04/17/2009 9:28:46 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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