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rainy

(6,095 posts)
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 09:08 AM Aug 2017

Poll: Bernie most popular politician in US

Published on
Friday, August 25, 2017
byCommon Dreams
Bernie Sanders, Nation's Highest Profile Socialist, Once Again Voted Most Popular
Sanders has repeatedly topped the charts on similar surveys and can now safely claim being the nation's most liked politician
byJon Queally, staff writer

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/08/25/bernie-sanders-nations-highest-profile-socialist-once-again-voted-most-popular#

Corporate DNC refuses to acknowledge this at their own peril.
They will be left behind if they don't see the writing on the wall. Women and progressives are the future of the information age. Get out of the way if you are stuck defending old DNC ways!!!!

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Poll: Bernie most popular politician in US (Original Post) rainy Aug 2017 OP
Wait for it..... Voltaire2 Aug 2017 #1
Bernie most popular politician of a group containing Fresh_Start Aug 2017 #5
I'm having a hard time making sense of the claim on Common Dreams lapucelle Aug 2017 #2
+1,000 murielm99 Aug 2017 #9
What kind of respondents rank Jeff Sessions 8th most popular, lapucelle Aug 2017 #10
Your post made me think of this. lapucelle Aug 2017 #11
That list sure is weird. Madam45for2923 Aug 2017 #15
those who did not vote heaven05 Aug 2017 #3
Harris Online Poll donates its results to Harvard,offers "rewards" delisen Aug 2017 #4
So its a 'We pay you to play' poll? revmclaren Aug 2017 #6
Seems that way to me. delisen Aug 2017 #8
Iteration 688 Doug the Dem Aug 2017 #7
Please stop! SCVDem Aug 2017 #12
How funny Politicub Aug 2017 #13
I thought fake polls where debunked during the primary. SharonClark Aug 2017 #14

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
5. Bernie most popular politician of a group containing
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 11:55 AM
Aug 2017

less than 5% of politicians. name recognition will do that for you.

lapucelle

(18,351 posts)
2. I'm having a hard time making sense of the claim on Common Dreams
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 10:07 AM
Aug 2017

that The Hill buried the lede with its headline, as well as with the headline itself:
"Poll: McConnell the Country’s Least Popular Politician"

Here are the Harvard-Harris "favorarable" ratings.
1. Bernie Sanders
2. Mike Pence
3. Hillary Clinton
4. Donald Trump
5. Elizabeth Warren
6. Paul Ryan
7. Nancy Pelosi
8. Rex Tillerson
9. Jeff Sessions
10. Chuck Schumer
11. Mitch McConnell
12. Stephen Bannon

According to the poll, Mitch McConnell is the 11th most popular politician in the country. I'm not sure why The Hill is claiming he's the least popular politician.

It's equally troubling and puzzling that Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, Jeff Sessions, and Steve Bannon (!) are rated among the top dozen in popularity while former president Barack Obama doesn't even make the list.

murielm99

(30,765 posts)
9. +1,000
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 01:11 PM
Aug 2017

I am getting sick of seeing this here when there are so many real news stories we need to see.

How many more times are we going to see how popular this guy is?

lapucelle

(18,351 posts)
10. What kind of respondents rank Jeff Sessions 8th most popular,
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 01:19 PM
Aug 2017

but leave Barack Obama off the list of 12 most popular?

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
3. those who did not vote
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 10:20 AM
Aug 2017

for HRC because of some BS about DNC or any reason or didn't vote because of some anger concerning a primary loss, helped get us this idiot potus....period.

delisen

(6,044 posts)
4. Harris Online Poll donates its results to Harvard,offers "rewards"
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 10:52 AM
Aug 2017

for participating in survey opportunities.

Apparently Mark Penn who now teaches polling at Harvard and a Harvard professor supervise the Harris poll. The Harvard professor is involved with the Center for American Progress, a non-profit, located at Harvard and the Harris Poll "donates" its results to CAPS-which was founded by John Podesta ( who does not seem to be closely involved in it anymore.


Today the Center is supported by many leading corporations and financial power players, such as Goldman Sachs

The Hill claims it gets exclusive reports from the Harris Poll

https://caps.gov.harvard.edu/news/caps-harris-poll-current-affairs

Harris Insights and Analytics conducts the poll based on online methodologies they have been using for more than a decade and the results are donated to the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University.

The results are represented as the results of the questions asked according to The Harris Poll methodology.


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delisen

(6,044 posts)
8. Seems that way to me.
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 12:55 PM
Aug 2017

Also seems odd that Harris doe a survey, donates its results to a non-profit housed at Harvard, and the survey then is called the Harvard-Harris Poll.

I have my doubts about Mark Penn and his polling/marketing.

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
12. Please stop!
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 04:45 PM
Aug 2017

The election is over and the more I have to see Sanders name, the more pissed I get.

Move on! This is a divisive issue.

I have been called to jury more posts of late and Sanders is the topic of most.

Enough!

Politicub

(12,165 posts)
13. How funny
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 04:54 PM
Aug 2017

I read this as most "un"popular politician. I thought the punchline was going to be, he's the first post-politician non-politician, therefore that's why he's most unpopular. I need to get my eyes checked!

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