Poll: Majority of Republicans believe Obama is a 'socialist'

[dps]

In addition, 73 percent said openly gay men and women should not be allowed to teach in public schools.

Wow. Just wow.

If that were remotely true, prop 6 would have been a landslide victory, don't you think?


I don't believe anything about this poll.

I think a bunch of people just deliberately gave answers that they didn't really mean, just to fuck with the poll. 

[Sheilbh]

I'd say Obama as an individual is at least a Social Democrat.  If his administration's policies haven't borne that out so much, it's due to Democrat moderates in congress & not wanting to get waxed in the midterm & '12 elections.

Do you have any evidence that he's a social democrat?  I ask because neither his administration's policies, nor the policies he ran on, nor frankly his career at Senate or state-level politics really suggest he is.

And I've never heard the "Reid-Pelosi" Democratic Congress described as moderate.  Though I think you're right.

[The Minsky Moment]

He did want to takeover GM, and give it to the UAW.

That at least seems kinda socialist, doesn't it?

I am quite sure he did not *want* to take over GM.  I think he felt his options were somewhat limited when the horribly bleeding body of GM showed up at the White House asking for some band-aids.

If anything the WH has been too reticent to use the rights its of its majority stake and too deferential to the GM BOD, which seems to be amusing itself with a game of executive musical chairs.

[Fate]

In addition, 73 percent said openly gay men and women should not be allowed to teach in public schools.

Wow. Just wow.

If that were remotely true, prop 6 would have been a landslide victory, don't you think?


I don't believe anything about this poll.

Why not? The poll is of *self-identified Republicans*. These are rather hard core folks. The 20% who still approved of Bush in late 2008. If the radical anti-homosexual agenda didn't have supermajority level support among these guys, then it'd never succeed on a ballot.

They did not poll the squishies like Berkut or Grumbler who call themselves "independents" but vote straight GOP every November. They did not take a random sample of all Americans of voting age.

[MadImmortalMan]

Why not? The poll is of *self-identified Republicans*. These are rather hard core folks. The 20% who still approved of Bush in late 2008. If the radical anti-homosexual agenda didn't have supermajority level support among these guys, then it'd never succeed on a ballot.

They did not poll the squishies like Berkut or Grumbler who call themselves "independents" but vote straight GOP every November. They did not take a random sample of all Americans of voting age.

Aren't you a "self-identified Republican" when the mood strikes you? 

[Razgovory]

In addition, 73 percent said openly gay men and women should not be allowed to teach in public schools.

Wow. Just wow.

If that were remotely true, prop 6 would have been a landslide victory, don't you think?


I don't believe anything about this poll.

I think a bunch of people just deliberately gave answers that they didn't really mean, just to fuck with the poll.

You say that about every poll that makes Republicans look like kooks.

[jimmy olsen]

I am sure that more than half of Americans, (and I'm not just picking on them) do not have post-secondary education.

You're wrong.  As of 2008, 54.8% of the US population had some education post-high school.  19.7% had "some college," 8.3% an associate degree, 17.8% a bachelor's degree, and 9.0% a post-graduate degree.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education/cps2008.html

17.8 per cent with a bachelor's degree is nothing to write home about.
That means that 82 per cent of Americans have not graduated from university.

I thought I'd read that the US had the largest percentage of the population with degrees in the world? Not true?

Oh, and you have to add the 9% with postgrad degrees to that right, so 26.8% have at least a Bachelor's degree.

[CountDeMoney]

Berkut was unsure about the racist angle.  Alot of people have been pushing it.  This is the second poll that shows a significant number of Republicans think that Acorn stole the election.

Oddly enough I have never met a Republican who thought Acorn had stolen the election. 

Well, Diebold stole 2004, so now everybody's even, now aren't they?

[Eddie Teach]

They did not poll the squishies like Berkut or Grumbler who call themselves "independents" but vote straight GOP every November. They did not take a random sample of all Americans of voting age.

I think Berkut voted for Obama and Kerry. Dunno about grumbler.

[Admiral Yi]

Why not? The poll is of *self-identified Republicans*. These are rather hard core folks. The 20% who still approved of Bush in late 2008. If the radical anti-homosexual agenda didn't have supermajority level support among these guys, then it'd never succeed on a ballot.

They did not poll the squishies like Berkut or Grumbler who call themselves "independents" but vote straight GOP every November. They did not take a random sample of all Americans of voting age.

"Self-identified Republicans" are either people who answered yes to the question are you a Republican, in which case the answers make no sense to many people, me included, or they are some hinky DailyKos filter that renders the results meaningless.

[Ed Anger]

They did not poll the squishies like Berkut or Grumbler who call themselves "independents" but vote straight GOP every November. They did not take a random sample of all Americans of voting age.

I think Berkut voted for Obama and Kerry. Dunno about grumbler.

I voted Nader.

[Sheilbh]

"Self-identified Republicans" are either people who answered yes to the question are you a Republican, in which case the answers make no sense to many people, me included

I don't understand this bit.

[Admiral Yi]

I don't understand this bit.

I would not expect a random survey of registered Republicans to yield these survey results based on the Republicans I know personally.

[Viking]

They did not poll the squishies like Berkut or Grumbler who call themselves "independents" but vote straight GOP every November. They did not take a random sample of all Americans of voting age.

I think Berkut voted for Obama and Kerry. Dunno about grumbler.

I voted Nader.

He's a Lefty, Green and an Ayrab, not to mention to guy who got "W" elected. U R worse than HlTL8R.

[Sheilbh]

I would not expect a random survey of registered Republicans to yield these survey results based on the Republicans I know personally.

They seem largely congruent with other poll results we've had from Republicans though, for example the 50+% who were either unsure whether Obama was born in the country or believed he wasn't.