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DEM POLLSTER: ‘People are stupid’ | Conservative Byte

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DEM POLLSTER: ‘People are stupid’

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Conservative Byte
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Last night on Politico’s live-stream election show, Politico editor-in-chief John Harris highlighted a provocative Politico story about “stupid voters.”
The Politico article by reporter Alexander Burns examines poll numbers from voters who still think Obama might be a Muslim, believe that the president can change gas prices, and appear to have conflicting opinions about the war in Afghanistan.
The article quotes Tom Jensen of the Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling who admits, “The first lesson you learn as a pollster is that people are stupid. . . I tell a client trying to make sense of numbers on a poll that are inherently contradictory that at least once a week.”
Harris said the story grew out of one of his “personal rants” sparking debate in the newsroom with the editors over the headline, which Harris said he wanted to be “provocative.”
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  • Jack Hotchkiss Fedupinarizona
    A Dem example;
    An email I received on 3 15 2012
    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Al Franken <no-reply@sherrodbrown.com>
    Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:46 AM
    Subject: Help me help Sherrod Brown
    To: Jack
    Hotchkiss fedupinarizona@gmail.com

    I am that
    Right Wing nut, Gun totting, God believing Freedom loving anti that thing
    in MY White House as well as all you socialist and you progressives.
      Your people screwed up again by sending your trash to
    me. I will send this entire message to all the freedom loving
    Americans through out the nation.  You need to start looking for
    a job now before 2012 your fired date. 
      I know what
    he is not; That thing is not my president.
    Working against that thing & his hope and
    change.
    Jack Hotchkiss 
    Oath Keeper


    Dear Jack,
    I’ve noticed something about the right-wing
    attack machine: Great
    progressives drive them absolutely nuts.
    Sure, they’ll attack anyone who doesn’t agree that corporations are people,
    Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and global warming is a hoax (that every
    legitimate scientist is in on). But they really lose their minds when they
    encounter a true progressive who gets results for working families.
    And they have gone positively crackers in
    their negative campaign against my friend Sherrod Brown, throwing everything
    they can at him -- to the tune of nearly $5 million in attack ads on Ohio T.V.
    already.
    I’m helping Sherrod fight back -- and you
    should, too. His campaign has to raise $500,000 by the end of the month. Can
    you knock $20 off that goal by clicking here right now?
    I work with Sherrod a lot -- and you’d be
    hard-pressed to find a more forceful advocate for the middle class. Less raspy?
    Maybe. But more forceful? No way.
    That’s why the right-wing attack machine has
    zeroed in on Sherrod. They can’t stand the idea that a guy who wears his
    progressive values on his sleeve not only gets to serve in the U.S. Senate, but
    gets things done there. Sherrod’s won fights on behalf of working people his
    whole career -- and if we want to win these fights in the future, we’d better
    make sure he keeps his seat in November.
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