Posted on 02/11/2020 5:12:28 AM PST by karpov
A majority of Americans surveyed in a new poll said they would not vote for a socialist candidate for president, with the most opposition coming from Republican voters.
Asked whether they would vote for their party nominee who was a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be socialist, just 45 percent said yes and 53 percent said no, according to the Gallup poll released Tuesday.
The acceptance for a socialist nominee, is 2 percentage points lower in the recent poll than when Gallup asked the same question in June 2015.
Democrats are much more likely to say they would vote for a socialist, based on the new poll. Gallup found that 76 percent of Democrats said they would vote for a socialist, whereas just 17 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of independents said the same.
The situation could play out in the November elections, with President Trump and his allies already slamming the Democrats as socialists. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a leading candidate in the race, has also openly described himself as a Democratic Socialist.
The term Democratic Socialist does not appear to have been polled by Gallup in its survey.
One of Sanderss top opponents, former Vice President Joe Biden, has said that having the Vermont senator on the top of the ticket could create a battle for down-ballot candidates in moderate races.
Gallup also surveyed Americans on their willingness to vote for candidates with other diverse characteristics, several of which are identifying factors for some of this years Democratic presidential candidates.
Gallup found that 93 percent of surveyed Americans said they would vote for a woman, a 1-point increase since 2015 when Hillary Clinton was on her way to becoming the first woman presidential nominee from a major party.
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Listen, when someone surreptitiously interviews the First Queen Chasten again and get his stereotypical flaming behaviour into a viral video, Pete will be lucky to be let back into South Bendover...
As another FReeper Posted, a Socialist is just a Communist who hasn’t murdered anyone “yet”.
Except for the Bernie Bots, who will react rather negatively to their candidate being screwed over yet again on what will be his last go-round.
“Majority in new poll says they would not vote for socialist: Gallup”
Voting is racist: Democrats
Wish the Media wasn’t so manipulative. This is pure anti Bernie timing.
Its ironic.
A party that claims the rich are the problem is going to nominate a billionaire and push out the socialist.
It’s much easier to sneak socialism past people if the guy leading the effort is a billionaire.
If you actually have a Socialist pushing socialism, some people will sit up and notice.
Sorry. Maybe in times passed but now any ‘edgy’ behavior is a Badge of Honor in the Democrat Party.
If I could have one question asked of Mayo Pete from Wall Street, it is, ‘Are you a Sinner?’
45% would???
For likely voters this poll question is really would you vote for Trump or a generic Democrat.
That's like asking a woman if she would date a generally well-qualified man who happened to model his life after the character Hannibal Lecter. There is nothing that can balance the flaws in a man who has you over for dinner "with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" or a candidate who is socialist. Judging by history, the socialist is by far the worst of the two. How many did soviet socialist Stalin murder? How many did national socialist Hitler murder? How many did socialists Mao, Pol Pot, and those in Vietnam, North Korea, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and the rest murder? No, thank you. I'd rather "rub the lotion on my skin", Buffalo Bill style, than expose my children and future generations to a life under socialism.
Problem is, young people are not taught the horrors of Socialism, Communism anymore.
They think it is very cool and their teachers embrace it. They are not shown the horrors of once rich countries, now Socialist, like Venezuela on the news or any media.
Boomers know because we saw the reality of it every night on the news. Communists were our enemy. It was a dirty word.
“Being a socialist (actually a communist) is not some chance event that happened to Sanders. He has been striving for it his whole life.”
When I met one of my father’s cousins (then about 50), I asked him what it was like after so long to be free of the Communist government. His reply was, “Same wall, different wallpaper.”
I apply that to all of the various stripes of Socialism. They can call themselves whatever the F they want to, but they ALL have a basis in lies, in the coercive seizure of the work product of others, and (ultimately, when all of that fails) in murder. They violate 3 of the 10 Commandments from the very start (and add to that with their assault on religion, because their just cannot be anything or anyone greater than the Party).
Oh, BTW, if any of these numbnuts useLESS idiots voting for Sanders or similar Communists start spouting off about “democratic socialism” in the Nordic countries, or elsewhere in Europe, put them in their place by saying that these countries are NOT socialist in any meaningful way; they are, instead, merely welfare states. Oh, some of the parties (in or out of power) may have the word “socialist” or the word “democratic” (or both) in their name, but that is just plain advertising. It is NOT reflective of the reality.
What is shocking, almost beyond belief, is that ONLY 53% of people wouldn’t vote for a Socialist, and that 45% *would*. While I definitely think that Trump will wipe the floor (A.K.A. “schlong”) anyone that the Dems nominate (and Bernie more than anyone else), I fear for our future. The younger elements of our society did not grow up during the Cold War, and they have (as a group) very little if any knowledge of what Communism and its deceptive sibling Socialism really are. We may find out before long that you can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.
“Uh, shows how utterly corrupt these polls are. No genuine non-RINO non-globalist non-crony capitalist Republican would ever vote for a socialist. Ever”
Most thinking Republicans would be far more likely to shoot at a Socialist (i.e. a Communist in sheep’s clothing that hasn’t yet developed the guts to start shooting people in the back of the head), than to vote for one. Given my family history (they stole all of my great grandfather’s property that he had worked for a lifetime to accumulate, then literally beat him to death a few years late when he was suffering from cancer, then imprisoned most of my grandfather’s family in a giant open-air prison for 75 years)...well, let’s just say that I won’t be voting for one - not even if Hell freezes over, unicorns regularly fly over me and shit out free Skittles, and flocks of flying pigs blot out the noonday Sun.
“If so, this does not augur well for our countrys future.”
But, oh, to be an gun and/or ammo manufacturer....
Bingo, Katnip you have THE ANSWER...My eldest grand-daughter, 17 yo, just graduated high school and has been accepted in college, when asked about this subject, that she has never had any teaching in the horrors of the differences between communism/socialism and Democracy. It explains a lot!!!
“They are not shown the horrors of once rich countries, now Socialist, like Venezuela on the news or any media.”
Yeah, I know, I’d get fired about 3 minutes later. But at least I would have told the truth.
“Boomers know because we saw the reality of it every night on the news. Communists were our enemy. It was a dirty word.”
Another thing... once the revolution begins... the psychopaths gravitate up and take control because they are attracted to absolute power. The first to be killed are all the idealistic idiots who actually believed in the "pie in the sky" promises of socialism and/or communism.
As the saying goes... "those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it."
If Bernie gets the nomination all hell will break loose. The GOP has been, very shrewdly, holding its fire and letting the dims self immolate. But they have a very thick file on Bernie the Bolshevik and it will come out if/when he locks down the nomination. In a Sanders/Trump general election I predict Trump carrying somewhere around 40 states.
lol
Yeah I HAPPEN to be white.
I HAPPEN to be an American citizen.
I never HAPPENED to be a socialist or have sex with another man or say I’m part American Indian.
Nor have I HAPPENED to grope a little girl.
Am I leaving any front runners out?
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