After Barrack Obama reneged on an earlier promise to only use publically collected money on his campaign, if John McCain would also agree to the same, a Hot Seat Poll shows serious backlash for the Demecratic Nominee for President. The polls question: What does Barack Obama's broken promise to use public financing say about him? The selectable answers: 1)Smart, seizes his advantage 2)Hypocrite, has no principles 3)Other With over 100k people responding, 69% of the votes are for 2)Hypocrite, has no principles!!!! Every single state had a majority for 2)....He's still months from the election and hes already breaking his own promises, he truely is an advanced politician....I'm not sure whats worse, this or flipping Hillary the bird....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chutney @ Jun 20 2008, 07:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That is a terrible poll.</div> care to explain why?
So he changes his opinion on a campaign finance issue to benefit him.... How is that any different than any other politician? And yet, Obama protrays himself as a candidate of change? That this won't be politics as usual? LOL... Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
The real problem for Obama is that he may well want to be the agent of change he claims, but in order to get the elite behind him, he has to pander and sell his soul (no pun intended). If he really were an agent of change, he'd have run as a 3rd party candidate, to eliminate the pressure from the elite. Teddy Roosevelt did it and almost won.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheBeef @ Jun 20 2008, 08:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chutney @ Jun 20 2008, 07:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That is a terrible poll.</div> care to explain why? </div> Sorry, I was in a bit of a rush in the morning. The two answers are way too specific and the "Other" category covers far too much ground. People always tend to avoid selecting "Other" in polls, so there's the possibility that they choose an opinion that might be stronger/more specific than the one they actually hold.
Generally polls have more than the three kinds of answers TheBeef posted, but the results are reported by combining categories of results. For example: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>George Bush is doing a good job as president? 1) Strongly agree 2) Somewhat agree 3) Somewhat disagree 4) Strongly disagree 5) Don't know</div> Now the true results might be 15% strongly agree, 15% somewhat agree, 35% somewhat disagree, 30% strongly disagree, 5% don't know. They'll report it as 30% favorable, 65% unfavorable, 5% don't know. I look at the somewhat disagree as almost the same as somewhat agree. Make sense?
