I guess you missed the part where I said I wasn't a statistican and I couldn't prove my assertions, or did you get all red in the face that you stopped reading before you got there?
However, when it comes to democratic voting blocs, two of the biggest are the soccer mom (the "remodeled feminist")and the FDR democrat, who has both an emotional (i.e they rememeber the Great Depression and thought FDR a Messiah, and his socialist programs just the greatest thing ever)and a financial (i.e. they get more money from Social Security, and Medicare benefits than they ever paid into either system, or even have a legitimate right to claim wiht a straight face) attachment to the government teat.
Certainly a good number of males aged, say 25-50, (whom we might assume would be mostly republicans voters because of economic and war issues, for the purposes of this argument)are not at home to answer the phone for this kind of stuff, nor do they have the time (for the record, I'm a 40 year old man, a professional, who's breaking his a** working 70 hour weeks so that his parent's generation can rob him blind in their old age).
Quite frankly, other than the two groups we've discussed and the welfare queens, who else would you assume is at home to answer a load of fool poll questions during daylight hours?
Just because what I have described might not apply TO YOU doesn't mean it doesn't apply at all. And once again, when I made those assertions it was with the disclaimer that I was no expert. I expressed an OPINION. Feel free to disagree with my opinion, but please read it and get a handle on what I'm trying to say before you unload on me.
My.my. Why dost thou protest so?
I read ALL the way through your first post to the END where you also said: "I can't prove any of this. I'm not a statistician. I just feel it in my "gut". Feel free to flame me, if you wish."
I just took you at your word...which I guess you didn't mean.
but your second post seems to run with the same thread - a resentment of women who are 'stay-at-home' moms. You seem lump them all into
"welfare queens...attachment to the government teat."
and you seem to have a seething resentment that you, as a
"40 year old man" " who's breaking his a** working 70 hour weeks so that his parent's generation can rob him blind in their old age). "
Further, you state:
"other than the two groups we've discussed and the welfare queens, who else would you assume is at home to answer a load of fool poll questions during daylight hours? "
Well, If you had read my answer to you - or to quote you:
or did you get all red in the face that you stopped reading before you got there? .........."
I gave you the other examples of mothers who CHOOSE to be full time moms to their children - and why. Did you not understand or did you get all red in the face that you stopped reading before you got there?
Post script: You needn't get all het up and feel you need to respond again. I'm not interested in the opinion of one so deeply opinionated. I responded merely for other readers who may not have read your first post and not know where I was coming from...Have a good life - altho', given your lifelong companion, that might prove difficult...