It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: IronDioPriest on August 01, 2011, 01:01:40 PM
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It's always encouraging when these Gallup polls come out showing the low percentage of people who self-identify as liberal, and the relatively high percentage who self-identify as conservative.
But I think the self-identification polling is faulty, because it doesn't matter what people think they are - it matters what they are. If these numbers reflected reality, there would never be another liberal Democrat elected to public office outside Berkeley. I suspect that many or most of the people self-identifying as "moderate" are actually liberals who want to separate themselves from the negative perception of liberalism. I suspect that some of the self-identified "conservatives" are actually liberal. I suspect that many of those polled don't have any idea what the hell they are. And I suspect that many people who self-identify as "moderate" believe that the Democrat party is moderate.
Still, here ya have it @ gatewaypundit: 41% conservative, 36% moderate, 21% liberal...
Gallup: More People Consider Themselves Conservative Today Than at Any Time Since 1994 (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/08/more-people-consider-themselves-conservative-today-than-at-any-time-since-1994/)
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I do believe you have nailed it. Many people do not know where they stand, and many people lie - they say whatever sounds good.
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I do believe you have nailed it. Many people do not know where they stand, and many people lie - they say whatever sounds good.
And that's why I never believed Bambi's high approval numbers, people are just starting to talk instead of holding back and we can all see the numbers only lately.
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These polls mean next to nothing when you consider how badly teh DE's cheat.
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Control the media control the polls, comrade.
It is a tactic to allow the adversary a brief moment of false hope,
the better to bring dissolution.
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Push-polling, unbalanced sampling and statistical manipulation...mere tools for the MFM to spin and distort.
Having said that, sometimes even all the dirty tricks find a hard time hiding the truth. But it has the frequency of a blind squirrel finding a nut...