Quinnipiac Pollster Just Called! (Funny questions)

Phone Call | 7/30/2009 | Me

[time4good]

Just got a call from a nice old lady from Qunnipiac University conducting a poll. I'll try to remember all of the questions and somewhat of an order but it cracked me up on the type of questions - seemed like red meat from Fox or FR!!

Here goes...

• Do you pay attention mostly/somewhat/not at all to national/political issues?
• Do you approve/disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy?
• Do you approve/disapprove of Obama's handling of world affairs?
• Do you approve/disapprove of the direction the country is going?
• Do you want Congress to pass Healthcare even if it means raising taxes?
• Do you want Congress to pass Healthcare even if it imposes a tax on people making $300k/year?
• Do you want businesses larger than $250k to have to offer healthcare or else get fined?
• Who can you trust more - Obama or the Republicans in Congress?
• Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Republicans in Congress are doing?
• Do you support the government offering a public healthcare option alongside the private healthcare offerings?
• Do you support or not support a government subsidy towards healthcare for individuals making $43k or less or a family of 4 making $88k or less?
• Is the economy currently excellent, good, fair, poor?
• Do approve or disapprove of the direction the country is going?
• Are you presently covered by a health insurance plan?

Switching topics,

• Do you feel the CIA was right in having a program to kill top AlQeida leaders?
• Do you feel the CIA should have stopped the program?
• Do you feel the CIA should have informed congress?

Different topic:

• Are you aware of the incident with the Professor, the police and Obama?
• Do you think the Professor acted 'stupidly'?
• Do you think Obama acted 'stupidly'?
• Do you think the police acted 'stupidly'?
• Do you think the President should have spoke publicly on the incident?
• Do you approve or disapprove of the President having a beer with the professor and the officer at the White House?

Different topic:

• Do you consider yourself a Born Again/Evangelical, Catholic, ....?
• Do you consider yourself Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, don't know?
• Do you think it was right for America to drop the bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki to end World War II?

  ... Then she ended with some demographic questions on me.

[time4good]

I know I missed some of the approve/disapprove or healthcare scenarios such as status quo, penalties, etc. But it was interesting as I took it as a thermometer of where the public mood was at. What made me laugh was the scope of the questions. I was expecting the healthcare questions - but to jump to CIA and Hiroshima made me laugh.
Anyone else get this call and remember other questions?
Btw - she said it's their weekly poll and the results are out beginning of next week, I believe Monday or Tuesday.

[Carley]

Wasn’t too much of a push poll.

Sounds like there were some reasonable questions.

[time4good]

Yes, reasonable to us. The mix was interesting.

[Carley]

By moving from topic to topic they were testing your knowledge of a variety of issues in the news.

[time4good]

Well, between FR and El Rushbo, and a sprinkling of FOX, I’m pretty well covered! :) (Ok, Drudge for some brainless pop-culture news with occasional Pelosi botox or HRC slingshot thrown in)

[PA Engineer]

Do you feel the CIA should have stopped the program?

I thought this was only a proposal and not enacted?

[ronnietherocket2]

Here goes...

* Do you pay attention mostly/somewhat/not at all to national/political issues? mostly
* Do you approve/disapprove of Obama’s handling of the economy? Why so black and white, it suggests that the worst Obama is doint is just mere passable
* Do you approve/disapprove of Obama’s handling of world affairs? Same again
* Do you approve/disapprove of the direction the country is going? Not sure, we do have Obama, but there also seems to be a growing backlash against
* Do you want Congress to pass Healthcare even if it means raising taxes? NO
* Do you want Congress to pass Healthcare even if it imposes a tax on people making $300k/year? Hell no
* Do you want businesses larger than $250k to have to offer healthcare or else get fined? No
* Who can you trust more - Obama or the Republicans in Congress? It pains we to say the Republicans
* Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Republicans in Congress are doing? slightly approve
* Do you support the government offering a public healthcare option alongside the private healthcare offerings? In other words, do I want socialized medicine.
* Do you support or not support a government subsidy towards healthcare for individuals making $43k or less or a family of 4 making $88k or less? No
* Is the economy currently excellent, good, fair, poor? poor
* Are you presently covered by a health insurance plan? yes

Switching topics,

* Do you feel the CIA was right in having a program to kill top AlQeida leaders? Yes
* Do you feel the CIA should have stopped the program? No
* Do you feel the CIA should have informed congress? Not sure, while I do believe Congress has the right to know, given what they would do with such knowledge leads me to this indecisiveness.

Different topic:

* Are you aware of the incident with the Professor, the police and Obama? Yup
* Do you think the Professor acted ‘stupidly’? Slightly
* Do you think Obama acted ‘stupidly’? Definitely
* Do you think the police acted ‘stupidly’? Slightly
* Do you think the President should have spoke publicly on the incident? No, its not his job to comment on every single minor police incident in the country.
* Do you approve or disapprove of the President having a beer with the professor and the officer at the White House? Disapprove, this really is a waste of time.

Different topic:

* Do you consider yourself a Born Again/Evangelical, Catholic, ....? Mildly Catholic
* Do you consider yourself Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, don’t know? Conservatarian
* Do you think it was right for America to drop the bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki to end World War II? While tragic, yes.

There my answers

[bcsco]

* Do you pay attention mostly/somewhat/not at all to national/political issues? A: Mostly
* Do you approve/disapprove of Obama’s handling of the economy? A: Disapprove
* Do you approve/disapprove of Obama’s handling of world affairs? A: Disapprove
* Do you approve/disapprove of the direction the country is going? A: Disapprove
* Do you want Congress to pass Healthcare even if it means raising taxes? A: Absolutely NOT!
* Do you want Congress to pass Healthcare even if it imposes a tax on people making $300k/year? A: Absolutely NOT!
* Do you want businesses larger than $250k to have to offer healthcare or else get fined? A: Absolutely NOT!
* Who can you trust more - Obama or the Republicans in Congress? A: Neither
* Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Republicans in Congress are doing? A: Disapprove
* Do you support the government offering a public healthcare option alongside the private healthcare offerings? A: Absolutely NOT!
* Do you support or not support a government subsidy towards healthcare for individuals making $43k or less or a family of 4 making $88k or less? A: Absolutely NOT!
* Is the economy currently excellent, good, fair, poor? A: Poor
* Do approve or disapprove of the direction the country is going? A: Disapprove
* Are you presently covered by a health insurance plan? A: Yes

[OrangeHoof]

“Oh, did you say you were a Republican? I guess we’ll just have to delete your answers. Thank you for your time...”