Mother Jones Poll

[Indiana_Dem]

Take this poll. Kerry/Dems look as if they are winning a little. It's a fun poll if you like to participate in polls.

oops! here it is! heheh
http://www.mojones.com/news/special_reports/2004/06/take_poll.html

[AmerDem]

1. how bout a link

?

[MazeRat7]

2. Taking it now... looks like its being Freeped

Not looking like responses from regular readers of MJ. Something is afoot.

MZr7

[Viking12]

3. It's not a poll

It allows you to compare your responses with the results of a May 2004 phone survey.

[Indiana_Dem]

5. Hey I'm sorry about that! I was under the impression

it was a poll....guess I didn't look at it close enough.

[Viking12]

10. No sweat. Took me a few questions to notice

I had the same reaction as an earlier poster, "Mother fucking Jones has been Freeped?!?" Then I saw the headline at the top of the page.

[MazeRat7]

6. Yeah, I figured that out on about question 18... *grrrrr

Thats ok though. It was a good reality check....

Thanks anyway.

MZr7

[Carla in Ca]

4. Well, here is a little video for you

<http://www.n3t.net/humor/Seriously.mpg>

[MazeRat7]

8. LMAO... that was great... Thank-you. (n/t)

[Carla in Ca]

9. You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

n/t

[Demi_Babe]

7. done but needs more DU help

I was shocked by some of the totals

[Booster]

11. Damn, that was a long poll, but kind of fun if you check

your answers against others. I fear this country is hopelessly divided right down the middle, and that's a dangerous thing. No compromise on either side.

[Indiana_Dem]

12. Yeah and I was under the impression that Mother Jones

was a more progressive publication?

[depakid]

13. For an obviously freeped poll (it is Mother Jones, after all)

some of the results were very interesting.

[qnr]

14. I wonder about the "freeped" bit

Understanding that it really isn't a poll and you're just comparing your responses, a lot of the questions confused me, and they probably confused the people taking the survey, to make it appear "freeped"

I don't have the poll here, but the areas that confused me were the ones like (paraphrasing, my memory is shot):

Thinking of the last three years, Would you say that the following group was a winner or a loser? *Some Group*

Now, is that saying that I think they were losers because they had to withstand everything that has happened in the last three years, or that they were winners, because even though they had to endure it, they're still plugging away?

Me, I took the "losers" route, thinking that they had lost ground, but I noticed that while most of my replies elsewhere agreed with the respondents, I was in the wrong camp on almost every one in that group.

Not sure if I'm explaining myself well, sorry.


edit: typo-buster

[depakid]

15. Republicans don't read Mother Jones, trust me

MJ is about as close to socialist as any any fairly commmon magazine gets- all those warm responses for Bush & Cheney aren't coming from regular readers, that much (as a longtime reader) I can assure you.

It's been freeped- but as I said, it's interesting to see some of the results on many of the specific questions.

PS: the winners/losers part was ambiguous. In fact, it's so poorly worded that it made me wonder whether the whole thing was designed as a tacit push poll for the freepers....