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Carrie K. Hutchens in The Dakota Voice...

I just took a poll of the people around me and it was unanimous -- no votes for Hillary! What makes any other poll fairer or more unfair than the one I just conducted?

There was a time when I respected polling and thought there was some positive benefit to conducting them and studying the results. I suppose that was when companies, candidates and others truly wanted to know what the people thought. It was before the rigged questions with answers that were likely to get a specific (and determined) end result. It was before the rigged polls were used to sway public opinion. After all, there are some people who go with the numbers, rather than deciding for self. And, by wording the questions just so... one can often plant other false information in the minds of unwitting people. The Terri Schiavo case comes to mind.

The first poll I saw regarding Terri Schiavo was asking if one thought she should be taken off life-support, as though she were on a ventilator or other such machines. It sounded as though they were all that were keeping her alive, but that was certainly not the case. However, all these many years later, there are still those people who are positive that Terri was brain dead and merely kept alive by machines breathing for her and to keep her heart pumping. The false message was planted and it stuck. Stuck so much so that no amount of proof to the contrary seems to have any affect on their belief. Amazing!...................

Poll Just Out: Hillary Clinton at the Bottom of the Heap

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200 posted on 12/28/2007 4:43:46 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; L.N. Smithee; TheSarce
We get an unusual clear glimpse in this thread by L.N.Smithee on what happened way back regarding stem cell research. Thanks to TheSarce for the ping.

On August 9, 2001, President Bush announced a compromise decision on the contentious question of whether the federal government should provide financial support for research into the curative properties of human stem cells extracted from embryos.

Bush’s compromise allowed funding for research into embryonic stem cells that had already been harvested. At the same time, he disallowed funding for procedures that would collect stem cells from frozen (but still living) embryos, since doing so would require their destruction. In the case of those already collected, he said, “The life-or-death decision has already been made.” But that life-or-death decision would not be made anew with taxpayer dollars.

Stem Cells and the President - An Inside Account (MUST READ!)

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201 posted on 12/28/2007 4:49:18 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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