This was an interesting poll result I found on Polling Report showing that, contrary to the fears of some, the public is basically aware that the reason "congress" isn't getting anything done is that Republicans are preventing anything from happening. It is, however, a pretty outdated poll. Anyone seen anything more recent on this?
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Who To Blame
30 Dec 2007 01:42 pm
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%51 Bush ve Republicans Partisini suçlu bulmuşlar. İlginç bir Yüzde. Yarı yarıya
What PriketSeverler said.
I think he posted in Turkish because it was the only way to make his anodyne comment interesting: "51% find Bush and the Republican Party to be at fault. Interesting statistic. Fifty-fifty." Thanks, dude!
how you ask a question can drive the answer
Suppose the first response is
"BUSH AND the Republicans"
rather than
"Democrats who are the majority of both houses"
Can you imaging ABC/Washington Post wanting to spin any other kind of result?
As self-righteous as as leftist reporters and politicians are, they always sem to show up very high on the lists of people held most in contempt by the broad public. Hmmm... wonder how that could be
Squeakyrat:
It's not all that discouraging, considering the fact that 25% of people are likely to blame the Democrats for anything and everything that goes bad.
As for the 20% saying both, there's a decent argument to be made there. Democrats have been very weak-willed and strategically awful; they go into every important bill acting like it will be a game of chicken between them and Bush/Republicans, then they swerve first every single time.
And it's ridiculous how immune Bush is to getting tarred as "not supporting the troops" when he threatens to veto defense/Iraq spending bills if they don't give him everything he wants. Just the other day he vetoed one that nobody expected him to. Yet you don't see many major news outlets talking about how that delayed a raise in pay for soldiers, or how it delayed veteran health care money. But you can be sure that the second the democrats don't give in to his demands and hold firm on a bill they want every single republican and every news outlet will categorize it as playing politics with the lives of the troops.
WHOM to blame. Whom whom whom.
Here's 2 more recent items on precisely the same lines:
http://www.democracycorps.com/weekly/Public_Polling_Report_-_November_30_07.pdf (pg. 3)
...which presumably explains why the Dems continue to hold a landslide lead over the GOP in every single poll of the 2008 generic Congressional election this year, including those in the last couple of weeks:
http://www.pollingreport.com/cong2008.htm
Excellent comment bu Jozef. It is all how those polls are worded, to give the buyers of those polls the spin they seek, to fill the narratives they already have prewritten that advance their agendas.
The liberal, and Jewish trasnationalist-owned MSM, is so blatant and so open about their machinations and manipulations of people. It's like they think the masses are so stupid and they so clever that in their arrogance they don't even try to conceal it and their bias and efforts to always fit facts to the narratives and agendas already penned and waiting for twisting the news to fit them. Or concealing news that discredits their efforts from the public. Along with the smaller sized WSJ, Fox news and right-wing radio on the other side - it is unsurprising that media ranks below Bush and even Congress slightly below their comrades on odious reputation - lawyers and judges - in trust and approval.. And slightly above child molesters, if that is consolation to WP editors, Jewish Moguls, Rush, and lefty public broadcasting staffers.
If the Polls were worded "Bush and the Democrat Leadership of Congress" and the next choice was "Republicans in Congress"....the well-known pollster associative trick would have given the 1st choice 50+%, Republicans in Congress 20-25%, "both" likely at 20%.
This also reminds me of a point that I've seen made in a few places, that a lot of the media seems to treat legislating as a game, and suggests that more getting done is ipso facto good. For instance, as a good libertarian the answer I'd want to give to the first question is "too much." And then the second question becomes, "and who do you think deserves the credit?" But you'd never see a poll asking: "How much do you think Congress accomplished this year: Just Enough, A Little Too Much, or Far Too Active?"
There are some of us who would vote for Republicans only if we believe they will keep anything from happening, and think that's their job.
Actually, Chris, the polls of the popularity of Republican members of Congress have consistently shown them slightly BELOW Bush's popularity, while the Congressional Democrats are consistently (and considerably) above him:
http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_dem.htm
http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_rep.htm
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
Doubtless this is due to the machinations of the Elders of Zion (as are all those polls giving Democrats a double-digit lead in next year's Congressional races), but it's still a fact.
Chris Ford makes me laugh. I'll be glad when "the Jews" finally ship him to the camps.
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Heads in the Sand
45% blamed either Democrats or both parties. That's discouraging.
Posted by SqueakyRat | December 30, 2007 2:06 PM