Have you taken this poll yet?

[PDittie]

I am a senior scholar in the School of Journalism at University of Texas (and a former professor at Texas Tech). My research partner and I are conducting our seventh online survey, investigating social media use and political attitudes and behaviors. Steve Whichard from Doing my Part for the Left suggested that I contact you about help in promoting our survey.

Frankly, conservatives are kicking our butts; the vast majority of our survey respondents have been conservatives. We are embarrassed we can't convince more liberals to fill out our survey. Could you provide us a link to Brain and Eggs to help provide a liberal balance? We also include questions about how people found out about Osama Bin Laden’s death, what sources they used to get further information and how they shared information about his death.

The survey is online at http://survey.utk.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=SOURCES2011 for your perusal.

Our survey has been approved by the Internal Review Board at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. As part of the permission process it is guaranteed that all submissions are anonymous and confidential. Any identifying information (i.e. IP address) will be deleted by the researchers upon receipt.

Regards,

Tom Johnson
Senior Scholar, School of Journalism, University of Texas-Austin

It's long -- 15-20 minutes, perhaps 30 for some. But the right-wing nuts have evidently Freeped it, so let's get it back in balance.

[sonias]

1. Thanks

I did my part!

:kick:

[kjackson227]

2. done.

[thanks_imjustlurking]

3. I did it.

My gosh that was a long, boring survey.

[PDittie]

5. Yes.

Very typical of research done at the post-baccalaureate level: stultifying. However, we can do what the conservatives painstakingly did already, which is wade through it ... or let them continue to unduly influence the narrative, thus controlling it.

They may be less intelligent, but they most certainly have us whipped in the discipline department.

I posted this same thread in GD and got almost as many responses (and more complaints) than it did here. People much prefer the one-click polls so they can hurry back to the Lounge or the circular firing squad threads, you know.

[onestepforward]

4. Done.