Step 1: ask the question.
Step 2:
Posted on 07/22/2014 8:39:49 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Why would an honest polling company ask Chris McDaniel’s supporters if they favored a second Civil War and if so, which side they would support? These are the questions one has to ask after reading Public Policy Polling’s (PPP) report on its survey of Mississippi voters on the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Thad Cochran and Democrat challenger Travis Childers. What was the purpose of these questions? Who paid them to ask these questions and why?
Public Policy Polling (PPP) is a Democrat polling firm based in Raleigh North Carolina. Thad Cochran’s team has strong connections to Democrats; some of them have been acknowledged, but others have been forced into the open when uncovered by McDaniel’s team.
In the past several cycles, PPP has polled local and national races; with mixed results. Although they have, at times posted unreliable results in local races during the early months of a cycle, PPP has been accurate in their final projections. Those who understand polling recognize that this suggests PPP’s polls are for sale when they think they can get away with selling them.
PPP is adept at writing dramatic headlines...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
PPP has been the most accurate pollster for at least a couple cycles now. But that is one odd damn question.
PPP is Carville’s outfit.
This is PPP projecting their preconception that McDaniel voters are what the left’s myth machine says they are, that is, the bogey-men that haunt the dreams of the SPLC. If they get the polling result that they want - and expect - to get they will blare from the mountaintops that McDaniel supporters want to reinstitute slavery.
They are already slaves of the Democrat Party. They are simply too ignorant to realize who their masters are.
Voluntary slavery is still slavery.
Civil war? No one wants that except for some “south rises again” crazed southern Democrats. Now a 2nd revolutionary war? It’s looking increasing unavoidable.
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Sounds like a ‘twofer’.......
Well to be totally accurate it would be a counter revolution as the revolution has already occurred. Obama has overthrown the constitutional republic and installed a police state. But I imagine most of us crazed southerners are using the term CWII as an anacronym for counter revolution. :-)
It would still be more like a CW. Have’s (working Americans) versus have nots (libs, government, and foreigners mooching the system).
Step 1: ask the question.
Step 2:
Bingo ! We have a winner !!
There is no CSA in a second civil war
The Poll:
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2014/07/mississippi-still-divided-over-senate-race.html#more
The Questions:
Q10 If there were another Civil War today, would
you side with the Confederate States of
America or the United States of America?
The Confederate States.................................. 29%
The United States ........................................... 50%
Not sure .......................................................... 21%
Q11 Do you support or oppose the South seceding
from the United States and forming its own
country?
Support ........................................................... 16%
Oppose ........................................................... 63%
Not sure .......................................................... 21%
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In addition to political issues, the company has polled the public on such diverse topics as the approval rating of God, whether Republican voters believe President Obama would be eligible to enter heaven in the event of the Rapture and whether hipsters should be subjected to a special tax for being annoying. -- Wikipedia
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There's Something Wrong With America's Premier Liberal Pollster The problem with PPP's methodology
No pollster attracts more love and hate than Public Policy Polling. The Democratically aligned polling firm routinely asks questions that poke fun at Republicans, like whether then-Senator Barack Obama was responsible for Hurricane Katrina. Not coincidentally, Republicans routinely accuse them of being biased toward Democrats. Last fall, PPP was front and center in conservative complaints about allegedly skewed polls. But when the election results came in, PPP’s polls were vindicated and the conspiracy-minded critics were debunked.
Pollsters, though, tend to judge one another based more on methodology than record. And for experts and competitors, the firm’s success remains difficult to explain. PPP doesn’t follow many of the industry’s best practices, like calling voters' cell phones; the firm only calls landlines. It discards hundreds of respondents in an unusual process known as “random deletion.” And because PPP's interviewers rely on lists of registered voters—rather than random digit dialing—and simply ask non-voters to hang up the phone, the firm can’t use census numbers to weight their sample, as many other pollsters do. This forces PPP to make more, and more subjective, judgments about just who will be voting. ... - The New Republic
I guess it would depend on which side supported the Constitution adopted in 1789, wouldn’t it?
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