'Avalanchas' Over Chavez Polls

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | 28 Nov 2006 | Editorial Staff

[Alia]

Sounds like "couch potato" mentality in that household, to me, Kenny Bunk. Probably very nice people; but they like to be told who's the good guy and who's the bad guy without ever getting up off the couch of life.

Sad to hear about your friend's son. $100,000 education, and all he gots to show for it is a whole lotta hate.

[norton]

" I think it really comes down to a hatred of the different ways in which people think. At their heart, leftists cannot stand that people think differently than they do and they are more than willing to punish those who disagree with them as a consequence..."

Not quite right:
I've responded before with notes about some quite serious 'scientists' I've worked with in the past.
There seems to be an "I'm smart; this is what I think: anyone thinking otherwise is....." mind set that many ivory-tower technoweenies share with most (?) socialists.
The belief that they have inspired knowledge in one, count 'em - one, arena bleeds directly into a belief that they do not need to invest time in considering other views or other disciplines, they're too simple - the answers are obvious to the enlightened.
Seems valid on review since most of the scientists/techno-types I worked with were flaming liberals and convinced that flowers would bloom in the streets if only people would listen to - that's right - them.

Seems to be representative of liberals everywhere, they condescendingly believe the rest of us to simply be below their level; not deserving of debate or consideration but better off under their sway.
Hatred or disdain follow in the wake of any refusal to accept that ego driven stance.

PS: I'm not here to insult any engineers/rocket scientists/geniuses on FR. Just ask yourselves if you have not seen the same attitudes among your peers.

[Kitten Festival]

Why thank you, StJ!

[SQUID]

Jimmy Carter has it all under control. Next....

[Per Kurowski]

We expect a timely response from AP, before December 3

Is the international news media is being taken for a ride by Hugo Chavez and AP?

The survey that has most assisted to create the impression of a runaway Hugo Chavez lead in the upcoming elections on December 3, 2006, is the one made by IPSOS and announced to the world by AP on November 24 and it is a crazy survey.

This survey contains some questions that show that the majority of respondents do no trust the electoral system in Venezuela and that they are concerned with facing reprisals. Since it also includes many detailed questions on government programs which leaves the respondent in no doubt about who is behind the survey, the results, unsurprisingly, turn out to be 59% in favor of Hugo Chavez and 27% for Manuel Rosales.

This survey would of course have been ignored except for the fact that contrary to all other surveys that have shown this type of lead for Chavez and that have all admitted being directly or indirectly ordered and paid for by the government, this one specifically says that it was carried out “by the polling firm Ipsos for The Associated Press”.

And so we ask, who can believe that the Associated Press would order and pay for a survey that poses 37 questions to 2.500 Venezuelan responders, in “face-to-face-interviews”?

Melville Stone, the great general manager of the Associate Press said about it in 1914 that "the thing it is striving for is a truthful, unbiased report of the world's happenings … ethical in the highest degree." We expect a timely response from AP, before December 3.