CNN Privacy Poll: Bad News for Liberals.

We always learn SOMETHING from a poll ... even if it is not always what the poll was trying to discover.

3.7 / 10 Democrats  ....  6.3 / 10 Independents  ...... 7 / 10 Republicans

What we learn from this poll is - some people who claim to be Republican are lying.  Why?  NO Republican, not even a Republican in a vegetative state, which many are in, would or could even think the thought let alone believe, that the government was not too large and too intrusive. Or these Republicans were formerly communists and relative to their former ideological belief system, the government is not too large.  This is not very likely.  What is more likely is - the poller calls, you answer. 
Poller:  Blah blah blah Would you be interested in taking a short research questionnaire about politics.
You:  [Thinking to yourself:  Sure, maybe I can say I support Obama and raise his sinking approval levels]  Yes.
Poller: Blah blah blah Democrat, Independent, Republican.
You: [Thinking to yourself, if I say Republican, and I say I fully support Obama, it will have a greater effect than if I say I am a far left liberal who can barely stand the guiy because he is too moderate, and then maybe finally people will give him a break]  Republican.
Poller:  Blah blah blah government too large blah blah privacy
You:  Of course not, it is serving the people, it can help the people now.  Of course it isn't too large.


I am pretty sure of the above having happened.  So you will argue well, the Republicans would do the same.  Perhaps, but the results do not bear that out.

What we have in this country are:
Republicans who are Conservative on the right, followed by (loving left) Republicans who are moderate; followed by Republicans who are centrist - right on some, left on others.  Democrats have the same, moving from right to left:  Centrist Democrats who are right on some issues and left on others.  Then you have the liberals followed by leftists.  Probably 30% of Democrats sit at the center area.  Republicans similar. 

So it probably breaks down, with + or - margins of error:

   20% Looney Left; 50% Liberal; 30% Centrist /  10-15-20% Independent  /    30% Moderate Republican / 65% Conservative / 5% Looney Right

So why do these numbers not add up.

You can find the more or less accurate numbers of voters in this country who are registered Democrat and same with Republican.  My first guess which is wrong, but not off by more than 4-5% - is 40% Democrat /  20% Independent / 40% Republican.

Which means 8% of Democrats are part of the looney left.  It means that 2% of Republicans are the Looney Right.  It should be clear how I came up with the 8 and 2.  Right or wrong given a margin of + or - it is, I am reasonably certain, more correct than not in reflecting the fringes.  Yet you could say you see Tea Party nuts and other right wing fringe calling Obama another Hitler, yet you do not see Looney Left acting out ... but you do, they are just not as visible today because their Messiah is in office.  Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan - true members of the looney fringe.  Moveon.org - looney left. Yet they are quite quiet even though Obama is furthering the war as Bush did.  More Americans have died in Afghanistan in the last two months than in the course of the war for 8 years.  No Code Pink.  No Cindy.  No Moveon.org.  Hmmm.

And the point then - Probably more likely 56% or 58% who fear the government today.  That bodes very badly for Democrats.  Very.  Even if future polls never reflect this concern and ask about economic well-being or job security or ... this result bodes very badly for them!!  Very.




CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights

February 26th, 2010
CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser



Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.

Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.

The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.

According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broken - though the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall survey.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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