I can't believe 14% support Rand Paul's stand on BP, CNN quick poll

[alfredo]

http://www.cnn.com

Do you agree with Rand Paul that President Obama is being too tough on BP?
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No 86% 52157
Yes 14% 8248

[Unvanguard]

1. 86-14 is pretty overwhelming. Too bad it isn't reliable. n/t

[scheming daemons]

2. 14% is very low.... 14% of people believe that Elvis is alive and the Earth is flat too

[marmar]

3. Considering that a third of Americans are absolute morons, that's not bad.

nt

[still_one]

4. First of all it isn't a scientific poll. However, I have heard that there are polls out there

that show over 50% support the arizona racist law for profiling, and that is also disturbing, and indicates just how ignorant a lot of people are

[no_hypocrisy]

5. 14% more likely to be against anything positive in association with Obama.

Really indirect way of calling Obama Un-American.

[emulatorloo]

6. Online polls are meaningless.

[alfredo]

12. If the results were not so lopsided I would agree on this poll.

[Bumblebee]

7. They don't -- it's just taking sides: Paul versus Obama.

[gristy]

8. As others have responded, 86-14 is a huge, overwhelming majority

Those 14% who said yes could have said so for any number of reasons, none of which have to do with anything particularly relevant to the question. Certainly, many of them are certain to have simply misunderstood the question.

[Saturday]

9. That 14% must be employees at Dawn detergent. nt

[Altoid_Cyclist]

10. OK, what happened to the other 14% who usually show up in these polls?

It seems as though it's usually around 28% of people who respond in an inane manner such as Bush's approval rating.

That means that either Paul was that far out of line (and out of touch with reality) or the other people who make up the 28% just aren't paying attention to current events.

It must be interesting to be in that 14% group. Scary...but interesting.

[alfredo]

11. They are at the Rand Paul/Mitch McConnell unity rally in Frankfort Ky.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

15. Ah yes, the (R) way of doing things.

As usual, they're trying to preach unity through insanity.

I wish that I could say that at least the TP'ers are there and not around here. However, this area is infested with them also. That must be why this area has the nickname of "Pennsyltucky".

Actually, this area has had that tag for as long as I can remember.

I mean no disrespect for the DU'ers from Kentucky.

[alfredo]

16. No problem, it's our cross to bear.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

18. Thank you for not taking it personally.

Right now I'm worried that Pat Toomey will beat Joe Sestak in the Senate race this fall.

Just what PA needs, a Santorum clone after we finally got rid of the original.


Here's hoping that this trend continues.

From TPM:

The new Rasmussen poll of the Pennsylvania Senate race shows Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak jumping into the lead over Republican former Rep. Pat Toomey, in the wake of Sestak's upset victory over incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter in Tuesday's Democratic primary.

The numbers: Sestak 46%, Toomey 42%. The poll of likely voters has a ±4.5% margin of error. Two weeks ago, Rasmussen had Toomey edging out Sestak by 42%-40%, and also had Toomey leading Specter by a much wider 50%-38%. The TPM Poll Average, composed entirely of pre-primary data except for this new survey, has Toomey ahead of Sestak by 39.6%-37.7%, with Sestak clearly gaining since March.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/poll-sestak-takes-lead-against-toomey.php

[alfredo]

19. I think Sestak's attacks on Toomey's Wall Street past might

work.


BTW, Rassmussen tends to favor republicans.

[slackmaster]

13. It's not a valid poll

Respondents self-select. There is no control.

Ignore it. It means nothing.

Auto-Unrec for getting wound up over a silly Internet "poll".

[alfredo]

14. Don't you think we know that. Nobody takes part in a poll against their will.

What I wanted to point out that 14% sided with BP and Paul.

[slackmaster]

17. The number is completely devoid of meaning

Maybe 1 person in 7 who responded to the poll intentionally gave the "wrong" answer just to be ornery, and piss off people like you who think the result should have some significance.

It doesn't matter.

[alfredo]

21. But 88 to 12% has some validity. Maybe the real numbers are 70/30, but

it does show there is some unhappiness with Paul's statements. If the numbers were 55/45 I'd say it was inconclusive because of it being freeped or people giving erroneous answers.

[Liberal In Texas]

20. There are people that if Rand Paul said to jump off a cliff

they'd be OK with it.

Lemmings.

[Ganja Ninja]

22. This just confirms what I've always suspected.

Teabaggers don't have enough sense to come in out of the rain.