Posted on 10/23/2018 8:16:36 AM PDT by rktman
Republicans and Democrats dont just disagree on the issues, though of course they do. Americans are divided on which issues are important in the first place.
That was the unmistakable finding of a new survey from the Pew Research Center. The research outfit polled 10,000 Americans, about a month before the 2018 midterms. The survey found that, when you break Americans out by political party, they often have totally different notions about what the biggest issues facing the country are.
This chart sums it up better than I ever could: on race, on climate change, on gun violence, on illegal immigration, Republicans and Democrats are irreconcilably divided over whether those issues are even important at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
“They used to make some pretty good guitar amps......... Oh, different VOX. Never mind.”
Now I’m confused. I’d always assumed that was why they were against the Marshall plan.
“...most...(questions) are...selected and phrased from a Leftist perspective.” [Avalon Memories, post 30]
Exceptionally well-identified; all too common from sources with a Left perspective.
The article’s explanatory notes on Pew’s polling mechanics wasn’t clear on this, but it’s probable that pollsters first established who was a “likely Democrat voter” or “likely Republican voter”. Then they asked each question: “Is ‘issue X’ important to you as a voter?” And the Vox article was silent on the percentage of likely-R voters in the 10,000-voter sample. Misleading.
Of much greater concern is the author’s refusal to acknowledge the breadth and depth of the social/cultural gap between the Progressive Left and everyone else: the Left believes that all problems can and must be solved by political action. The rest of us do not. This split dates back more than a century.
Please note the word choice: I used the phrase “the rest of us” instead of “the Right”, because I believe what Thomas Sowell first identified is true: there is no organized equivalent of the Left, at the opposite end of the political spectrum.
Don't look at the columns...look at the color of the numbers. That one is 75% Rep and 19% Dem. Opposite of what you think.
What a poorly constructed chart....
Some of the first large scale student demonstrations of the modern era took place at the Berkeley
campus of the University of California in 1964 and were known as "The Free Speech Movement".Believe it or not, unlike the students of today who protest and riot with demands that authorities
limit free speech, students at Berkeley in 1964 were protesting IN FAVOR of free speech!
error toward the bottom of the survey. It flips the red and blue for some reason on the final few responses.
I concur. Rigged survey for liberal purposes. No value.
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