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In Focus: 81% of Americans Say Country Going to Hell

April 4, 2008 - 11:11 am - by Michael Weiss
Patrick
2008-04-04 21:31:41

“love it! an objective poll but you can not accept it.”

What makes this poll ‘objective’? The last CBS poll I saw they had taken a skewed-the-the-Dems sample and skewed it even *more* to the Democrats to ‘fix’ it. The NYT has been doing pollaganda and election year hijinx every presidential election year. This goes back at least to 1992 when they spend the whole year trashing the economy to pave the way for Bill Clinton. Then the day after the election, they ‘discovered’ that in fact the economy had been growing for all of 1992.

” Then show me a poll of your own making or choosing that shows these statistics to be wrong!”

Objective facts: We are the strongest nation on earth; we’ve had robust economic growth, amazing productivity growth these past 7 years, and current unemployment is reasonably low; the current situation is not a crisis, there is an unwinding of a speculative bubble in residential housing, as it works itself out, other sectors of the economy etc.

We could do better, but by being fiscally responsible, not by listening to Democrats, for sure. an example:
“I know why the price of gas is so high. Politicians are trying to please the environmentalists and will not allow any steps to increase the supply . Its as simple as that”
… this is true. Drill in ANWR and offshore, stop the ethanol subsidies and opposition to nuclear power and refinery building, and we’d have cheaper energy. Democrats are on the 100% wrong side of the energy issue.