Polls can be dangerous and tricky things. Personally I wish our country, our politics, and our politicians weren’t so poll-driven. The daily and weekly tracking polls, the constant focus on approval ratings, and other examples of poll-overload contribute to the increasing polarization of American politics, in my opinion. But like driving by a car wreck, you can’t keep from looking.
Interesting poll of the week: Gallup reports that conservatives outnumber liberals in every one of the fifty states. And that seems like one of those indicators that the major media does not necessarily reflect the views of the public.
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Impeach President Trump, again
3 years ago
I think that the problem here is with poorly defined terms - everyone has different ideas of what these things mean to them. It's something like the Gallup poll that indicated that most people identify as pro-life whenever, if polled more specifically, most people support the availability of abortion at least in extreme cases as well as supporting the availability of contraception, despite those things being against what strict pro-life standards would consider valid.
ReplyDeleteI also think that this is interesting in light of how the Democratic party seems to be getting a huge influx of disgusted Republicans who are still every bit as conservative as before, which is making the party turn more conservative (see: Blue Dogs). There are a lot of people, myself included, who are not happy with this.
I think this means we need "change we can believe in"
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