Speaking of polling, Mother Jones just released a new poll. Yes, it's Mother Jones, but poll was a real national sample and seems to represent a real attempt to find valid results (only 42% of the sample voted for Al Gore, while 50% voted for GWB - this would almost argue for skewing the results in favor of Bush, since the actual numbers in 2000 should be something like 51/49 for Gore over Bush).
The poll results are interesting. I'll only make a general comment: something like two-thirds of those polled think the country is heading in the wrong direction, but in a vote between Kerry and Bush it's a dead heat. Unless I can't do math, that means one in six voters thinks the country is going badly, but is voting for Bush (presumably the man most people hold responsible for all the badness). What I'd really like to see is a poll devoted to those people. Who are they? How do they think? To whom do they attribute the problems, and what do they want as solutions? Are they idiots, or do they have a real logic to why they believe the way they do and will continue to vote for Bush? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Posted by baltar at June 16, 2004 12:46 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics