Posted on 11/20/2014 6:25:11 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Same old BS. Whenever the RATS win big there are never calls for cooperation or bi-partisanship, but when the pubbies win the lefty media and RAT pols are also preaching let’s work together, bi=partisanship etc. To the pubbies do to the RATS what they do to you, crush the bastards.
(sigh).....one more time....
You can NOT work with HARD-CORE ALINSKYITES who have SWORN AN OATH to DESTROY YOU!
We know how we feel about "xxxxxx" - we just told you idiots how we feel about "xxxxxx"we just had an historic election to tell you and everyone in government, including the GOP!"
We the People, can also back that election up with some action, if we need to, and it is looking like we need to!
I don’t believe that Democrats were so completely rejected in the last election so that Republicans could enable their failed policies.
No need to. The point of my comment was to highlight what you said - that there is confirmation bias - and thus no one at FR should trust any polls posted by posters. Right?
If there is confirmation bias, then the issue isn’t what could be done but what should be done. Right? People could stop putting polls here at FR and/or Jim could accept or reject all of them - but should anyone then take any poll here with a grain of salt if what you said in post #11 is true, and it is best to not trust any of them?
I need to remember what you said when others put polls on here....
Wrong. I said "media" polls should not be trusted because they are dishonest push polls. Confirmation bias had nothing to do with why polls should not be trusted. When you asked why many freepers felt that way when they disagreed with the results and accepted the polls when they agree with them I said THAT was a result of confirmation bias - the tendency to trust information that supports your opinions and reject information that conflicts. I don't give much stock to media polls in either instance, there's always an agenda with modern MSM. And I did restrict my assertion to "media" polls - polls commissioned by organs of the MSM: CBS/NBC/ABC/NYT/WSJ/Fox, etc. etc.
While he certainly calls the shots, you at least have your opinion on this. Perhaps everyone here needs to know that these media polls are indeed junk and not to be trusted.
I never said anything about whether polls should be posted about In threads. I just said media polls shouldn’t be trusted.
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