{"id":17683,"date":"2018-09-27T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2018-09-27T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:41:04","slug":"im-like-a-lot-of-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/27\/im-like-a-lot-of-other-people\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Like A Lot Of Other People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last couple of days I’ve been goggling over this Fox News Poll<\/strong><\/em><\/a> result, which I’ll have Steve Benen describe<\/a> for us:<\/p>\n

But toward the very bottom on the survey, there was\u00a0a question<\/a>\u00a0we don\u2019t generally see in most national polls:<\/p>\n

Which of the following best describes how you feel about Democrats?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey love America and truly want what\u2019s best for the country,\u201d or \u201cThey simply want what\u2019s best for their party, even if it hurts the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which of the following best describes how you feel about Republicans?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey love America and truly want what\u2019s best for the country,\u201d or \u201cThey simply want what\u2019s best for their party, even if it hurts the country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among likely voters, Democrats didn\u2019t fare all that well: 44% of the public believes Dems love the country and what what\u2019s best for it, while 43% believe Democrats simply want what\u2019s best for their party. Ideally, a popular party would see a much larger gap, with the former easily outnumbering the latter.<\/p>\n

But public attitudes about the GOP were quite a bit worse. The Fox News poll found that 36% of likely voters believe Republicans sincerely want what\u2019s best for the country, while a 52% majority sees Republicans putting their party\u2019s interests above the nation\u2019s interests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you want the raw data, it’s questions 46 & 47 at the poll link.<\/p>\n

Here’s Steve’s graph, just to emphasize:<\/p>\n

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I’m amazed that Fox News<\/strong><\/em>, widely considered the propaganda arm of the White House and GOP<\/strong><\/em>[1]<\/sup><\/a>, permitted that result to go out, as it clearly depicts in general American opinion that Republicans as far worse in the grubby, self-centered politicians department than the Democrats.<\/p>\n

But it’s certainly congruent with my observations on the matter, as that happens to be a major trait of second- and third- raters, too often willing to proclaim their patriotism as they enrich themselves in various ways, distracting the voters in various ways.<\/p>\n

Having thought about it, I suppose Fox News<\/strong><\/em> is really doing the Republicans a service by letting them know the general opinion of them. Of course, such news can be self-reinforcing, but that’s a chance they have to take.<\/p>\n

And, if they’re really a news organization, they’re honor-bound to release all the results of the poll. Maybe whoever is running things over there is getting an uneasy feeling about the guy they’ve been busy enabling.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>1<\/sup> Although sometimes just who’s the horse and who’s the carriage is debatable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last couple of days I’ve been goggling over this Fox News Poll result, which I’ll have Steve Benen describe for us: But toward the very bottom on the survey, there was\u00a0a question\u00a0we don\u2019t generally see in most national polls: Which of the following best describes how you feel \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17685,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions\/17685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}