Posted on 06/18/2013 5:41:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
To cleanse the palate. I was going to do another post on the disappointment that is Rubio and how the “American workers can’t cut it” quote from his aide looks even worse in context, but neither of those topics depressed me enough. I needed something more eeyorish, something to make me despair about the judgment of the electorate at large, not just a bunch of Beltway RINOs who aren’t even smart enough to pander to the right constituency. And then, thanks to PPP, I found it.
I can accept defeat on this question but I can’t accept a landslide. Every day, on various topics, I find commenters tweeting “America is finished.” Only now do I realize that they’re right.
No daylight between the RINOs and true conservatives there, my friends. This is why we lose elections.
The partisan split is surprising. Not the Republican numbers, but the Democratic ones:
I thought there’d be a stronger feline showing among both Dems and women. Nope. Both top out at 26 percent. In a world of partisan gaps and gender gaps, the population errs on this one uniformly.
In fact, unless I missed something in PPP’s crosstabs, there’s only one demographic that puts cats within double digits of dogs. It’s landslide after landslide when testing for sex, race, ideology, geography, even vegan/vegetarianism. Only one group makes a contest of it. The free-thinkers, the contrarians — the young adults:
Gay marriage, pot legalization, opposition to intrusive government, and cats (almost). Second look at the brightness of America’s future?
Update: On second thought, Jay Cost figured out a way to make me sufficiently depressed about Rubio.
It is hard to distinguish Rubio's approach on this from *exactly* what everybody expected Charlie Crist to do …
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) June 17, 2013
… Deal with Dems, make himself look good, make his own party look bad.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) June 17, 2013
Good! More cats for me! :-)
Not just Muslims. The ancient Arab and Middle Eastern contempt for dogs was influenced by the Bible where the Old Testament uses the word for dog, kelev, to refer to pagan male homosexual temple prostitutes as in Deuteronomy 23:18
"Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow"
Re: about that 30 point spread,
Which speaks more about the PPP smaple than the ‘shock poll’ itself.
They looked at out cat, the leash, and his red snout, then muttering to themselves ‘must be drinking cool-aid’ .......
To this day, both of us can't stop laughing when thinking about the episode.
I have four dogs in my house. No cats allowed. My tofu-eating neighbors have cats.
What kind, you ask?
One Good ole Boy, two retards and one little babygirl.
My sentiments exactly. Dogs are needy and messy. May as well have another kid.
Back here to add the couch to the list of things
ruined by 2 cats that don’t weigh 10 pounds put together.
Searching all day for the source, I just found the end
of the couch, the pillows, cushions and the blankets stacked there,
soaked - must have been at for a few days.
They gone. They gone tomorrow.
I think this poll is just wrong. But even on the off chance it is correct, nothing will ever sway me, kitties rule!
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