February 2012
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Polls that dont matter: Deficits
Turns out just 11% of Americans cared about the deficit and furthermore they think its ‘cause the rich don’t pay their fair share:
A plurality of Americans — 46 percent — say the primary cause for the nation’s deficits is that “wealthy Americans don’t pay enough in taxes,” according to a new United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection poll. Just three percent blamed...
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Polls that dont matter: RomneyCare, err, ObamaCare
62% of Massachusetts residents like their ObamneyCare:
The poll from WBUR, an NPR-affiliate in Boston, finds that 62 percent of Massachusetts residents support Romney’s law, while just 33 percent oppose it. Meanwhile, nearly 70 percent of respondents said they see Romney’s opposition to the Affordable Care Act as a political ploy
Massachussettians are smart folk!
Once Romney repeals...
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Polls that dont matter: GOP extremism
More than 50% of Americans think the GOP is extreme:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 35 percent of Likely Voters say it would be more accurate to describe the agenda of Republicans in Congress as mainstream, while 52 percent feel extreme is a more accurate description. Thirteen percent (13 percent) are not sure
35% think this is mainstream? God help us,...
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Polls that dont matter: John Kasich
Only 33% of Ohioians would vote for Kasich if the election was held today:
A new Public Policy Polling (D) survey shows only 33 percent of Ohio general election voters approve of his job performance, while a majority of 53 percent are disappointed with it. Those numbers translate into a serious case of buyer’s remorse on the behalf of Ohioans, as Kasich would lose a rematch against former Gov....
Polls that dont matter: Congress Job Approval
10%!! 10% of Americans approve of the work of Congress, and especially the House GOP & Senate obstructionists:
The 112th Congress rode to office in 2010 on the biggest wave of unlimited, undisclosed corporate money that American politics has ever seen. That same Congress hit a historically low approval rating of 10 percent, Gallup reported this week.
This is awesome news for the tea party...
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Polls that matter: Drones
77% of Americans love it when we can kill faraway brown people from a NOC deep in Arizona:
Support for drone strikes against suspected terrorists stays high, dropping only somewhat when respondents are asked specifically about targeting American citizens living overseas
Bombs away, America. I’m sure Victor Davis Hanson will dig up historical documents about how drones are reason the west...
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Polls that matter: Gitmo
70% of Americans want brown people & assorted types stuck in gitmo without due process:
The survey shows that 70 percent of respondents approve of Obama’s decision to keep open the prison at Guantanamo Bay. He pledged during his first week in office to close the prison within a year, but he has not done so.
Even the party base appears willing to forgive that failure.
Well, shiver me...
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Polls that dont matter: Youth Optimism
88% of young Americans say they earn enough money now or expect they will in the future (via commie rag, the WSJ:
For young adults, bad times don’t trump optimism. Among those ages 18 to 34, nearly nine-in-ten (88%) say they either have or earn enough money now or expect they will in the future. Only 9% say they don’t think they will ever have enough to live the life they want. Adults ages 35...
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Polls that dont matter: Congress Job Approval
43% of Americans said random people would do a better job than the current Congress, i.e. House GOP:
Forty-three percent of respondents said a group of random people selected from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than their current representatives. Thirty-eight percent of respondents disagreed and 19 percent weren’t sure
Of course, they’re talking...
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Polls that dont matter: Birth Control
Looks like a majority of Americans would like women to be healthy:
Fifty-five percent of Americans agreed that “employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception and birth control at no cost,” according to a Public Religion Research Institute survey released Tuesday. Forty percent disagreed.
But .. but .. won’t a box of...
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Polls that dont matter: Susan B Komen
53% of Americans oppose wingnuts Brinker & Handel not wanting to fund poor people getting screened for breast cancer:
Do you support or oppose Susan G. Komen’s decision to stop funding breast cancer screenings by Planned Parenthood?
Support
Oppose
Not sure
All
39
53
8
Women
38
53
9
Men
39
54
7
Who wouldve guessed that right-wing nutjobs wanting to run an organization based on ideology...
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Polls that matter: Iran War
Let be known if there’s one thing America does, its learning from previous mistakes. A majority are okay declaring war on Iran based on specious evidence
Nearly half of likely voters think the United States should be willing to use military force to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to this week’s The Hill Poll.
Forty-nine percent said military force should be...
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Polls that dont matter: Willard Mitt Romney
The more little people see/hear Mitt, the less they like him:
Overall, 55 percent of those who are closely following the campaign say they disapprove of what the GOP candidates have been saying. By better than 2 to 1, Americans say the more they learn about Romney, the less they like him.
Hmm, I guess you can have all the money in the world to fund your own damn run for the presidency but it...
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Polls that dont matter: Economic Policy
More than 60% of Americans like policies that favor rich to pay fair share of taxes & ending tax breaks to corporations that outsource jobs to China:
Gallup asked the question of adults as to their level of support for five economic proposals expected in the State of the Union speech.
House GOP will get right on that.
But if there’s a poll showing marginal interest in nuking Iran...
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Polls that dont matter: House GOP Image
64% of Americans think the House GOP are nuts:
House Republican poll ratings have plunged over the past year, as Washington’s brutal battles have taken a toll on a party that was flying high last January when it took the majority.
Which brings us to this: what f&*king planet are the other 36% living in?
Boehner addressed Winston’s polling at the GOP retreat earlier this month. On the...
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Polls that dont matter: Business Experience
Americans don’t think business experience would make a great President:
New numbers from ABC News and the Washington Post show that the private experience of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is view unfavorably by the general population
I guess Americans don’t regard the work of our greatest CEO presidents GWBush & Dick Cheney all...
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Polls that dont matter: Capital Gains Tax Rates
52% of Americans support taxing Capital Gains And Income at same rate:
The survey shows that 52 percent of Americans think the capital gains rate should be the same as income tax rates, while 36 percent say Congress should keep things the same. Both Democrats and Republicans think increasing them are a good idea, although Democrats moreso, and the proposal also gets support from 54 percent...
January 2012
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Polls that dont matter: GOP POTUS Campaign
52% of GOP don’t like their POTUS candidate choices:
According to Pew’s latest survey, a majority of Republicans are dissatisfied with their candidates …
Gee, you mean doubling down on crazy & playing buzzword bingo (“socialism”, “Europe”, “exceptionalism”, “death panels”, “deficits”) doesn’t really push...
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Polls that dont matter: Corporations are people,...
56% of Americans disagree:
Q: Do you think that corporations should have the same rights as people, or not? Should have the same rights: 24 Should not have: 56 Unsure: 20
This poll is biased since it didnt survey corporations. And, by the way, thank you, Montana:
The Montana Supreme Court closed out 2011 by restoring a 100-year-old ban on direct spending by corporations in political...
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Polls that matter: America’s 1% on tax rates on...
71% of very rich Americans agree with America’s very, very rich person that very, very, very rich should pay their fair share of taxes:
About 71 percent of millionaires surveyed said they agree with Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc, that the very wealthy ought to pay more taxes and give more to charity
“Some may be saying the...
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Polls that dont matter: Tea Party
50% of Americans think the tea party is nuts:
Fully half of Americans oppose the tea party political movement, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, and “strong” opponents outnumber strong supporters by a 2 to 1 margin. Four in 10 adults continue to back the movement, but an ideological split between more and less committed tea party supporters also threatens prospects of a unified...
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Polls that matter: America’s competitiveness
71% of the HBS alumni expect America’s competitiveness to decline:
Fully 71% of the businesspeople polled expected America’s competitiveness to decline over the next three years. (National competitiveness is a slippery concept: countries do not compete in the same way that firms do. But the businessfolk in question answered some clearer questions, too.) Some 45% said that American firms will...
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Polls that dont matter: Who's to blame for...
54% of Americans still hold jejeune prince responsible for our economic nightmare
Fifty-four percent of respondents said that Bush was more to blame while 29 percent put the blame on Obama; 9 percent said both men deserved blame while 6 percent said neither did. Among registered voters, the numbers are almost identical; 54 percent blame Bush, while 30 percent blame Obama.
You mean bungling a...
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Polls that dont matter: GOP obstructionism
60% of Americans think GOP is not interested in working out anything with Obama:
In the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 60 percent say Mr. Obama is attempting to work with Congressional Republicans to try to accomplish something; 27 percent say Republicans in Congress are making the same effort to work things out with the president. Ah, those nutty 27% of GOPers who’ll agree that the...
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Polls that dont matter: Tax rates
57% of Americans don’t think the rich pay their fair share of taxes:
52 percent – think they pay the right amount of taxes, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. The number of people who feel that they pay more than their fair share of taxes dropped from 55 percent in 2000 to 38 percent in 2011.
No matter how many times this is asked, its always the same. So, it must be...
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Polls that dont matter: MLK Jr
51% of Americans think America has achieved racial equality:
Americans are about equally divided on whether Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of U.S. racial equality has been realized, with 51% saying it has and 49% saying it has not. Blacks (54%) are slightly more optimistic than whites (49%) that the dream has been realized
Well then. Besides, 65% of white folk have a favorable...
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Polls that dont matter: Congress approval
84% of Americans disapprove of Congress:
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows a new high — 84 percent of Americans — disapproving of the job Congress is doing, with almost two-thirds saying they “disapprove strongly.” Just 13 percent of Americans approve of how things are going after the 112th Congress’s first year of action, solidifying an unprecedented level of public disgust that has...
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Polls that dont matter: Congress approval
11% of Americans approve of Congress is handling its job
Only 11% of Americans approve of how Congress is handling its job, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll released Monday.
That’s a new record for this measure on a CNN survey; the previous all-time low approval rating for Congress was 14%, set in August, at the very end of the debt ceiling debate which resulted in an...
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Polls that dont matter: NY Aqueduct
57% of New Yorkers don’t think NY needs the country’s largest convention center at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens. Because Jacob Javits is, you know, small potatoes:
Voters remain highly contented with Mr. Cuomo’s job performance, the poll, conducted by Siena College, found. But their disdain for his convention center proposal — 38 percent supported it, and 57 percent opposed it —...
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Polls that dont matter: Consumer Sentiment
Consumers are optimistic about economy or something by 15 points more than they were in 2007:
“More frequent mentions of rising employment lessened income uncertainty and prompted more favourable buying attitudes as well,” Richard Curtin, survey director, said. “The data suggest a stronger consumer spending outlook, rising to about a 2.1 per cent gain in 2012.”
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Polls that dont matter: GOP POTUS Wannabes
53% of Americans are repelled by GOP POTUS candidates:
The country is equally repelled by the Republican presidential contest (53 to 38 percent). The style of their politics and governance is driving away independents. And more than half of white non-college voters, who were key to Republicans’ wins in 2010[2], do not like what the Republicans in Congress are offering—a staggering result.
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December 2011
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Polls that don't matter: Taxes & the rich
52% of Americans called the rich-poor gap “an acceptable part of our economic system”:
In a Dec. 16 Gallup poll, 52 percent of Americans called the rich-poor gap “an acceptable part of our economic system.” Only 45 percent said it “needs to be fixed.”
Hmm, you know what this means, right? There is absolutely no need for any more polls. All those previous polls that have shown income...
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Polls that don't matter: Fair taxation
57% of Americans think that the rich should pay more:
Pew recently found that 57 percent of Americans now say the wealthy don’t pay enough in taxes, and 55 percent say the tax system is unfair
Why do Americans punish job creators like Steven Schwarzman who thinks a 3% rise in his taxes is akin to Hitler marching on Poland? Besides, good ole Steve thinks its not the rich who need to pay more,...
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Polls that dont matter: Small Business Tax Credits
57% of small business owners don’t know about tax credits embedded in Obamacare:
With the economy still in a slump, small business owners like me are doing everything we can to keep our costs down. A particularly troublesome cost for my business is health insurance.
However, I recently learned there are tax credits in the new healthcare law specifically for small businesses that will...
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Polls that dont matter: Iraqi on Operation Iraqi...
60% of Iraqis fear a possible civil war, partition of the country, outsized foreign influence by neighbors, terrorism, or economic woes:
Iraqis, overall, feel that their country is “worse off” because of the U.S.-led war there — perhaps, for example, because Baghdad recently ranked as the worst place on the planet to live — with strong divergences across ethnic groups. Likewise, in the U.S., ...
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Polls that dont matter: Operation Iraqi Freedoms
78% of Americans approve of Obama ending this shitty war:
Do you approve or disapprove of the decision to remove all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of this year? Approve: 78 Disapprove: 21
Which, of course, means that Obama lost the war The Decider declared we won in 2005.
Mitt Romney Takes Three Positions On Iraq In Fox News Sunday Interview
When host Chris Wallace asked him...
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Polls that dont matter: Congress Approval
11% of Americans approve of the work Congress does (or mostly, what they dont do - work):
A new record-low 11% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest single rating in Gallup’s history of asking this question since 1974. This earns Congress a 17% yearly average for 2011, the lowest annual congressional approval rating in Gallup history
This isnt bad news for GOP...
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Polls that dont matter: Taxing the rich
67% of Californians support taxing the rich a little more:
Polling released Thursday shows that 67 percent of California voters support the initiative that will be on the ballot in November 2012 that would require millionaires to pay more progressive tax rates in order to restore funding for education and other essential programs
Where do these golden raisin growing, latte sipping surfer...
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Polls that dont matter: Occupy
44% of Americans still support Occupy Wall Street and their very strange, undecipherable difficult to understand anti-crony capitalism message
From what you’ve read and heard about the Occupy Wall Street movement involving demonstrations in cities around the country, do you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose the Occupy Wall Street Movement?
Support...
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Polls that don't matter: 2012 Elections
70% of Americans want the 2012 campaign to end already:
Seventy percent of respondents can’t wait for the campaign to be over. Twenty percent for some reason can’t wait for it to start and just 4 percent are indifferent.
Interestingly, voters on both sides of the aisle share a similar distaste for the 2012 contest: 67 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of Republicans can’t wait for the...
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Polls that dont matter: Immigration Reform
66% of Americans think there should path to citizenship if the a person meets requirements such as paying back taxes and learning English:
Regardless of political party affiliation, most respondents supported a path to legalization.
A majority of Republicans (57 percent), independents (68 percent) and Democrats (73 percent) said they supported giving undocumented immigrants a path to...
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Polls that dont matter: Affordable Care Act
80% of employers will continue to offer health care to their employees in 2014 once the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges become operational:
HighRoads, the industry leader in employer health care compliance and benefits management, today announced findings from its November “Pulse Survey” to assess employers’ sense of preparedness and...
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Polls that dont matter: The 1%
77% of Americans think the 1% has too much power:
Roughly three-quarters of the public (77%) say that they think there is too much power in the hands of a few rich people and large corporations in the United States. In a 1941 Gallup poll, six-in-ten (60%) Americans expressed this view.
Reflecting a parallel sentiment, 61% of Americans now say the economic system in this country unfairly favors...
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Polls that dont matter: Belief in "higher...
93% of Americans say they believe in God or a higher power:
The rest of us, it turns out, constitute the nation’s fastest-growing religious demographic. We are the Nones, the roughly 12 percent of people who say they have no religious affiliation at all. The percentage is even higher among young people; at least a quarter are Nones.
Apparently, a growing number of Americans are running from...
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Polls that dont matter: Climate Change
76% of religious Americans want to confront climate change:
In [the University of Maryland] poll, 76 percent of respondents said preventing climate change is an important goal. Among them, 32 percent said it falls within their obligation to protect God’s creation. A bigger group, at 44 percent, didn’t think of it as an obligation. But it was important to defend against rising temperatures...
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Polls that dont matter: TSA XRays
46% of Americans dont want to be bombarded by x-rays:
The TSA has repeatedly touted a series of polls showing strong public support for the scanners. But those polls and surveys – conducted by Gallup, The Wall Street Journal and various travel sites – largely dealt with the privacy issue.
When confronted with the cancer-terrorism trade-off, however, Americans took a much more negative view of...
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Polls that dont matter: Financial Bailouts
60% of Americans oppose bailing out #banksters:
Just 20% think it was a good idea for the government to provide bailout funding to banks and other financial institutions, but 60% say otherwise.
While many activists try to link the Republican Party and Wall Street, Republicans think the bailouts were a bad idea by an eight-to-one margin.
Those not affiliated with either major party think they...
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Polls that dont matter: Teanut America
20% of Americans agree with the Teanuts:
A new poll from the Pew Research Center shows that support for the Tea Party — and with it the Republican Party — has dropped precipitously in the last year. Now just 20% say they agree with the Tea Party, less than the 27% who disagree. But the news gets worse for Republicans: their favorability has dropped even further in Tea Party districts.
This...
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Polls that dont matter: Afghanistan War
59% want America to get the shiat out of Afghanistan:
A new Rasmussen poll released today finds that 59 percent of likely voters nationwide want all U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan within one year. Twenty-nine percent opposed any pull out time table.
And thats from a Rasmussen poll. If a legitimate polling group surveys, the result will be probably 79% against this shitty war.
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Polls that matter: Foursquare
Only 5% of America checks in:
Only about 5% of U.S. online adults said they use location apps at least once a month, according to a new Forrester survey of more than 37,000 respondents. That’s only up 4% from last year, even though the overall audience of online adults familiar with these services increased to 30% this year, vs. 16% in 2010
Any word on how Americans checked out of...