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In reply to the discussion: Majority of liberals support US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)I did click on "Detailed View," but did not notice the additional option to click for further info, or I would have clicked again.
Truthfully, I lie to pollsters all the time. I assume that most or all polls are trying to make some rightist point or other and I don't want to cooperate. So, I might well say I supported Obama when I didn't. Not, however, on this particular question.
Also you cannot ever discount the low info factor. I know a Democrat who was graduated summa cum laude from Barnard (history major). Every day, she reads at least two newspapers. She never heard of the DLC and the changes it made in the Democratic Party until I told her a couple of years ago. (In fairness to her, she had noticed a change, just not one she could easily explain or identify. She called one side evil and the other phonies.)
I have one degree more than she does. I, too, was unaware of DLC, New Democrats, etc., until I started posting on DU.
where exactly in newpapers or msm is there a lot of news about the DLC and how far right the Democratic Party has gone since Bill Clinton became President? For that matter, is there a lot of news telling you that every Democrat is not a liberal? They call Obama a socialist and that gets publicized, though.