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Category Archive 'Polls'
16 Dec 2014
Where’s the Outrage?Democrats, Enhanced Interrogation, Polls![]() Poor Diane Feinstein! Poor Andrew Sullivan! Left-wing bleeding heart democrats were looking to produce a big stink with the partisan Senate “Torture” report released last week. CIA officers were supposed to be found scrambling for pardons, and Dick Cheney was supposed to be consigned permanently to the dog house. Instead, the CIA essentially shrugged and Dick Cheney went on television and called the report “crap.” Today, the Washington Post looks at the latest polling from Pew on national attitudes toward enhanced interrogation and reports that waterboarding & Dick Cheney are a lot more popular than Barack Obama. Muslim jihadis attacked a school in Peshawar today killing over a hundred people, mostly teachers and children. Normal Americans generally tend to think that waterboarding is actually too good for these kinds of people. 24 Jul 2014
Darth Vader More Popular Than Any 2016 Presidential Candidate2016 Election, Darth Vader, Polls, Star Wars![]() The Washington Post has some discouraging poll numbers.
30 Mar 2014
Popular DelusionsComic Books, Polls, Popular Delusions![]() Next time you see a poll published in some newspaper indicating that a majority of the public believes in Global Warming, supports Gay Marriage, or thinks there ought to be a law against something or other, take a look at this one. My parents believed back then that reading comic books was somehow bad for you. 17 Feb 2014
Study: Obama is 5th Best President in U.S. HistoryBarack Obama, History, Humor, Polls, Satire![]() 06 Sep 2013
Onion Cites Poll: Americans in Favor of Sending Congress to SyriaCongress, Polls, Satire, Syria, The Onion![]() The Onion:
Read the whole thing. The Onion, of course, publishes satire, but I tend to suspect that a real life poll would not come out very differently. 21 Aug 2013
Rudest, Hottest, Dumbest, Most Arrogant, Best and Worst Scenery, Weirdest Accent StatesPolls, State Superlatives, United States![]()
Business Insider asked Americans which states were the rudest, the drunkest, the hottest, had the weirdest accents, and so on. 25 Mar 2013
Yale’s Sex Week Prostitution & Bestiality PollJournalism, Polls, Sarcasm, Sex, Sex Week at Yale, Yale![]() Earlier this month, it was revealed that the management of this year’s Sex Week at Yale circulated a questionaire inquiring about Yale students’ sexual histories, whether they’d ever had sex for money, and what sort of activities had they participated in. Campus Reform blog I personally smiled sardonically and shrugged when the Daily Mail swallowed this silliness whole and when one editorialist at NR online also climbed on board, worrying aloud about what all this pre-matriculation-at-college debauchery must say about the state of our civilization. The Daily Mail is a British newspaper and, let’s face it, some of the guys who write for NR do not have personally an Ivy League background, so a little confusion about the meaning and validity of that particular poll was understandable. But, as the French flavorfully put it: “Il ne faut pas de enculer des mouches” [One does not sodomize flies]. I decided not even to dignify this nonsense by remarking on it. I was clearly wrong. Some flies will keep demanding attention until they get it. First of all, a few days ago, on Facebook, a prominent conservative intellectual I know (who did not go to Yale), was linking another instance of the one-out-of-ten-Yale-undergraduates-have-been-hookers news meme. So, I intervened and pointed out that in evaluating all this, one needed to reflect on in just what way the typical Yale undergraduate is likely to respond to blithering, intrusive, and basically bizarre questions about his-or-her sex life written up in ridiculous form by a professional “sexologist” who operates a suburban store selling dildos. I was only surprised that number of affirmative answers to the weirder questions was so low. More recently, even Glenn Reynolds (who went to Yale Law, and ought to know better) was repeating this important meme.
When I read this sort of thing, I think back fondly to Ken Kesey appearing at Yale, during the Revolution, to announce to the nation his candidacy for the presidency (opposing Richard Nixon in 1972). Kesey was visibly inflamed with self-righteous political passion, egomania, and some sort of mood altering substances. He proudly delivered his diatribe, and began taking his bows while condescendingly accepting questions from the audience. The Yale undergrad questioners began cruelly playing with Kesey like some cats playing with a mouse. They gravely expressed agreement with his nonsensical propositions, and deliberately and skillfully drew him farther and farther out along fanciful limbs of patently ridiculous claims pertaining to his qualifications for high office and elicited from him some extremely potentially embarassing proposals for national policies involving sex, drugs, and Rock & Roll. Then, the audience began mocking him. People asked unkind questions, like whether he might not be too stoned to campaign effectively. Kesey became infuriated, and he began exchanging invitiations to come up and fight him for catcalls from the floor. And that was how the audience at Ken Kesey’s presidential campaign announcement at Yale sank that campaign on its opening night. Someday, boys and girls, I should tell you what we did to Norman Mailer, but that is another story. In any event, it is necessary to bear in mind, that most people who get into Yale are very, very bright, and that Yalies have a tendency to mock fools. 21 Jan 2013
Fox News Poll: Two Thirds of US Gun Owners Would Defy Federal BanGun Control, Polls![]()
06 Nov 2012
Ignore the Polls2012 Election, Barack Obama, Polls![]() Mona Charen argues, I think correctly, that polls (filled with dubious and completely hidden assumptions) this year have succeeded in burying electoral reality, at least as far as the media reporting sources are concerned.
—————————- And El Rushbo observes: Everthing, except the polls, points to a Romney landslide. Personally, I think presidential election are usually easy to predict. You can tell when Americans generally are tired of the incumbent and inclined to give the other side a chance. You can tell when times are bad and people are going to vote out an administration they hold responsible. By any rational criteria, the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama has been a disaster. Obama made countless grandiose promises. He told Americans that he would bring an end to racial animosity, that his administration would be unprecedentedly honest and open, that you could watch his proposals and initiatives being drafted on CSpan. He broke every single one of those promises. He has governed autocratically, appointing more Czars and undertaking more innovative end runs around the law than any previous president in history. His signature achievement, Obamacare, was occultly drafted in closed backrooms, no CSpan, and it was then rammed through a Congress, unread, in the face the opposition of a much larger national majority than voted for Obama for the presidency. His Justice Department has been flagrantly biased and corrupt, and his administration has been rife with scandals and cover ups. He ran a bitter and divisive campaign in which he declined to offer any new meaningful promises and in which he had great difficulty taking credit for any positive achievement, unemployment, poverty rates, and gasoline prices all being higher than when he was first elected. I can’t see any reason why today’s result should look different from 1980’s. ![]() |