Trump: Miss Me Yet? A Continuing Series-147
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I saw that reported on CBS. The total given was that 48% of Americans in general favored the government doing this. We must remember, ideas like free speech, democracy and equality are all considered stealth white supremacy used to oppress minority populations. And this isn’t kooky websites on the Internet saying it. My son is taking a history class in college this semester that basically teaches the same thing.
that basically
teachesindoctrinates the same thing.Doubt if the Professor has read this passage from Scripture:
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Mathew 7: 2
The wheel always comes round isn’t in Scripture but it is usually true in this Vale of Tears.
I’m nostalgic.
I remember the good old days. You know: when Orwell’s 1984 was fiction.
The civil war will be up close and very personal.
It’s a near certainty the above mentioned professor is not familiar with any Scripture. It’s also a near certainty the same professor is unaware of the lessons of the French revolution. Some people just can’t become educated until the pointy end of the gun is facing them.
Check out the methodology.
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/W93-ATP-Methodology_FOR-RELEASE.pdf
The recruitment part caught my eye; they went from inviting thousands, to inviting a thousand; from random phone calls to random letters. The letters lead to answering online.
If I’m reading this correctly, they asked roughly five thousand of their sample one of the two questions, and got only two percent who didn’t answer. That seems…improbable.
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/W93-topline-government-and-tech-regulations.pdf
The usual over-sampling of democrats and “independent” Democrats, of course.
2021
27 Republican and 17 leans Republican Party
32 Democrat and 20 leans Democratic Party
2 no answer 5 no answer for leans.
26 Independent — these groups
13 Something else — make up the “leans.”
This, of course, ignores the known issue of troll-polling where you feed them flat garbage for fun and profit. (yes, they do pay, and they’ll provide a tablet and internet access if you don’t have it)
Their report here:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americans-now-say-government-should-take-steps-to-restrict-false-information-online-than-in-2018/
Was on page 3 or so when I looked at the site.
Don’t really buy too much into polls of any sort. I always wonder with polls who exactly participates because I have no memory of ever being randomly called up or members of my family being contacted to participate. I get a few scam calls from Lithuania or Seychelles here and there – lol- but never a political poll in my country asking to participate in a collecting info for a poll. So I figured over time that polls like these are put together from a calculated selection which gives a skewed result to fit an agenda. You’re better off walking into the local pub and asking people what they think and there you’ll get a sense of the general opinion of the population.
Agree, Ezabelle. Rush used to say that polls are for shaling opinion, not measuring it. And having learned way back in my college days how easy it is to manipulate “random” sampling, I suspect he was right with regard to most public polling.
Shaping opinion. Rats. Sloppy proofr, sorry.
Proofreading. Auto-fill is my bane. 🤣 Sorry to clutter up the comments.
The Pew Survey got about 50% of the random contacts to agree to cooperate by phone, and about 88% by mail. Whatever weighting of parties it used, it shouldn’t affect these responses, which are split by party.
Sounds like Rush was right on the mark Frank. Just last night on our nightly news we were given a poll that showed the approval rating of Premiers by State. And if you believe that shoddy poll then the NSW Premiers public approval rating went down with net satisfaction rating of 16% (she locked down the State once reluctantly and has subsidised wages for businesses and employees), and the approval rating of the Victorian Premier went up and is the highest on the east coast with net satisfaction rating of 29% (he has locked his State 7 times and it’s war on the Victorian streets now that he has locked down construction industry for 2 weeks even the Unions hate this lefty). My husband and I looked at each other and started laughing. Yep polls.