Posted on 10/21/2013 8:49:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I despise the reference to political parties as “brands,” but I fear that is what they have been reduced to.
I dont think we will hurt us in the mid-terms. The polls are showing we got beat up over the shutdown, however the special election held last week in NJ yesterday is promising. Sure the D won, it is NJ after all. But they won by only 11 points over a hard core tea party candidate. This after weeks and weeks of the media bashing conservatives and the tea party. 11 points seems like alot but is in line with the way NJ usually votes. In previous senate elections over the years the D’s have won by: 19 in 2012, 9 in 2006 and 10 in 2002. That leads me to believe that conservatives and the tea party will be strong in the coming elections, even with the biased media. I pray I am right!!!!
I don't even see the Republicans attempting to tweak the fundamental transformation from the periphery. All I see is them talking tough during their election campaigns and fund-raising campaigns, but when it comes to actually taking stands for what Republicans say they believe, they wimp out nearly every time at the least amount of criticism. Most Republican congressmen and senators would rather be liked by the press and their democrat counterparts than do the job they were sent to Washington to do.
There is no science in political polling, polls only manufacture opinion for the masses, I have been saying this for years.
The poll results become reality only after they are released and announced over the air waves, but yes they become reality.
Anybody that does not understand this has had the wool pulled over their eyes.
If the pollsters had reported that Democrats and the President were mostly to blame for the shut down, that result would have become reality as well.
If polls showed that Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin had positive poll numbers, that would also become reality in time
I am NOT affected by polls, I am speaking of the mindless masses, the majority hears a poll and it helps them form their opinion
To the folks that believe in the science of partisan political polling (you poor souls), you have to at the very least realize that when it involves big moments like these, and elections, that any science goes out the window
If you don’t see that, I pity you
If the polling were true and done in a fair way then it is because of the media who never covered Reid;s comments about kids with cancer or how the house passed bills to open the Govt or how the monuments and others were closed to hurt the people and it was their first time closed.
Anyone thinking the media had nothing to do with this is either that really dumb or naïve when it comes to the media.
They polled “adults”, more than half of whom do not vote, and a significant number of whom have two-digit IQ’s. The sample itself was comprised of 20% Republicans, 30% Democrats and 50% Independent/Other Party members.
RE: I dont think we will hurt us in the mid-terms. The polls are showing we got beat up over the shutdown, however the special election held last week in NJ yesterday is promising. Sure the D won, it is NJ after all. But they won by only 11 points over a hard core tea party candidate.
Well here’s a question — WILL VIRGINIA (most often a red state, lately going blue), elect a Democrat governor, the provably corrupt, Terry Macauliffe, or the principled conservative, Ken Cuccinelli?
THAT is the bellweather for me. If Virginia votes for the Dem, this tells me that America is slowly moving left.
Reconciling these polls, the People want a Democrat Congress and a Republican President.
Yup. “CNN poll”....might as well call it the Dem poll.
CNN must have polled 841 black lesbians in San Francisco and Berkeley.
Dems will always rely on zombies who listen to whatever the media tells them instead of actually looking up the FACTS..that is how Dems win elections, people sit in front of the tube and listen to every word coming out of these lying sacks of garbage in the press who are just shills for the Dem party and zombie their way to the polling place
Not likely voters, which is the only poll that is meaningful, but just adults which includes a large percentage of low information NON voters. Plus for the final result they selected:
20% Republicans
30% Democrat
50% Independent
An unrealistic spread.
The msm indoctrinates those who don't pay much attention to politics with the "Hate the evil Republicans" meme then take a poll of those same people to find out what they think. The big mystery is, given all the Republican bashing money and propaganda, why they are not more successful than they are.
This country is looking more and more like the old Soviet Union.
This is CNN. Their poll will show Republican approval PLUMMET, and Obama popularity SOAR, when people realize healthcare will cost seven times as much!
This means Democrats and Tea Party supporters do not want the GOP in charge.
The left hates the Tea Party more than anything but loves to include them in statistics like these.
The GOP only has support from some “independants”, “moderates” and libertarians, but not conservatives. Conservatives want conservatives running the GOP before they want the GOP running the nation.
The left has been trying hard to represent that the Tea Party is the fringe, but really it is the die-hard socialists and communists that are the fringe.
Oh yes, they certainly have the Republican's best interests at heart.
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When CNN runs their typical push poll do they say that they are “CNN” or do they make up another fake name?
CNN?
I’m going with a 63-67% advantage in Democrats polled in and around the DC area.
Overall effect of poll?
Zero divided equally.
CNN Poll shows democrats love the U.S. almost as much as communist cuba.
Same people told us the country hated Reagan throughout his presidency.
This poll from “the most trusted name in news.” I’m convinced!
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