It’s embarrassing that The Hill commissioned a poll from Mark Penn and Doug Schoen. Guess what it purports to show?
Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP.
This result comes from The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll, which found that 44 percent of likely voters say the Democratic Party is more dominated by its extreme elements, whereas 37 percent say it’s the Republican Party that is more dominated by extremists.
In case anyone’s interested, Schoen and Penn make their living off of corporate clients, and they do everything they can to make the Democratic Party sympathetic to those client’s interests. All this poll represents is an effort to blame the midterm losses on the Democrats going too far to the left. No one in their right mind is going to believe these poll results. But you can believe this:
Penn Schoen Berland is best known for applying the approaches and research methodologies learned in the political world to the corporate setting – an approach that built PSB’s reputation as one of the world’s premier global market research and communications consulting firms.
We help our clients win in competitive situations and make strategic decisions based on qualitative and quantitative information. Our unique hybrid process neutralizes the issues that hurt our clients, finds issues on which our clients can build majorities, and amplifies the messages that work. We are experts at finding the right message for the right audience and delivering it through the right medium.
So, how could their poll reach any other conclusion than that the Democrats are too far to the left? They don’t get paid to do honest polls.
Well, a person can dream, can’t they?
Yes, President Hillary has moved too far to the left.
After that disaster that was Hillary’s campaign, can someone tell me why anyone would hire Penn for anything?
I guess that poll responders have never heard of the Tea Party.
But that’s the whole genius of the ginned-up, corporate run Tea Party ploy. They can spew the ignorance, bigotry, and royalism that “real” Republicans confine to the country club. They can roil up the low-info citizenry over bogus threats and subversions, and when they finally go too far, the Reps can throw up their hands and say, hey, they’re the Tea Party, not us. They burrowed into our pure hearts and now we’re training them in moderation and compassionate conservatism.
On our side, we got nothing.
tools…
absolutely fucking useless tools
It’s funny isn’t it?
Early voting off to a fast start in Democratic areas of Ohio
Think about that. Cuyahoga and Franklin counties are banking the votes for the state-wide races. An early sign that OFA and other GOTV efforts are likely to work. And motivation to get behind them as well.
Hopefully, the Penn-Schoen team will be as good at predicting the midterms as they were helping Hillary win the nomination.
You write:
Define “in their right mind,” Booman.
A good 30% of the American electorate actively supported Bush II right to the bitter, mindless end.
Are they all “out of their minds?”
You and I would say yes.
But we are outnumbered and outgunned.
Once again:
Doable for either side, of course.
Forget about Schoen and Penn’s relative honesty or lack thereof. All pollsters are in the pay of various interested factions.
What pertains here is this this and this only:
What does approximately 15% of the (so-called “undecided”) electorate believe to be true?
Or more accurately stated…how effective will be the competing hypnomedia in motivating their own zombified bases?
CNN clompers?
MSNBC clompers?
Fox clompers?
Wait and see.
That’s all we can do.
Wait and see.
Clomp clomp clomp clomp clomp clomp clomp.
Hark!!!
I hear the jackboots appooaching!!!
Watch.
Bet on it.
AG