Counter Punch Article RatingTransparent Idiocy and Cynically Wishful Democratic Party Thinking: Reflections on a Poll and its Reporting
Sep 09, 2022 View Original Article
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| "The OFR has specified 6 drastic plans it will implement if it can steal the White House back with help from his Republi-fascist friends in state legislatures and the state and federal courts: execution of drug dealers; forcing homeless people into tent cities (concentration camps); deploying the US military to crush crime, social unrest and protest; stripping job protections from federal workers and staffing thousands of federal positions with (his own) fascist appointees; eliminating the Education Department; restricting voting to one day." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "But it's dubious indeed to think that voter backlash against the killing of Roe v. Wade will provide the Democrats enough turnout to succeed with: a highly unpopular Democratic president sitting atop an inflationary economy; 74" | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Not Much Reported: Climate and Abortion as Low PrioritiesTwo other parts of the NBC poll have gone without much if any attention from liberal cable news and Democratic politicos: the percentage of US Americans who put climate [change] as their top issue is just 9" | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "And, of course, as with threats to democracy, the abortion issue cuts both ways: many of those in the 8" | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "'It would be a giant gift to everyone in the party, from Biden on down, to have that guy out there,' another top Democratic consultant says." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Nevada: Jim Marchant, the new Republican nominee for secretary of state." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "As Chris Smith writes at Vanity Fair:What's coecting and driving the playing-with-fire strategy is a pervasive pessimism." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Open fascist Oath Keeper Mark Finchem, a January 6th insurrectionist, for secretary of state, the top election official in the state; Trumpist Abraham Hamadeh, for attorney general; gubernatorial candidate Trumpian Kari Lake, who says she would have refused to certify Biden's 10,000-vote victory in her state.+ Wisconsin Republicans last Tuesday nominated for governor the OFR-backed construction magnates Tim Michels." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "+ Michigan's Republi-fascist election-denier nominees include Tudor Dixon (who falsely contended that the OFR won the state in 2020) for governor, Kristina Karamo (who has called the 2020 election fixed and baselessly claimed that Dominion voting machine software flipped votes to Mr. Biden for secretary of state), and Matthew DePerno (a central player in 2020 election challenges) for attorney general.+ Arizona:" | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Trump has hardly kept his intentions a secret, but the reality of him as a threat, the thinking goes, would shift the conversation away from inflation and toward the existential threat to democracy." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "They have been encouraged to play the authoritarianism card (Biden has even said semi-fascism to Democratic donors) by the recent FBI search of the orange-hued fascist's Mar a Lago estate, which has revealed that Trump feloniously absconded from the White House with a sizeable slew of classified top secret documents he had no right to possess." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "They have been encouraged to play the authoritarianism card (Biden has even said semi-fascism to Democratic donors) by the recent FBI search of the orange-hued fascist's Mar a Lago estate, which has revealed that Trump feloniously absconded from the White House with a sizeable slew of classified top secret documents he had no right to possess." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The Republi-fascists have already succeeded in nominating Big Election Lie candidates likely to try to steal the 2024 presidential vote for the OFR (or his fellow fascist Ron DeSantis or some other revanchist monster) for offices that oversee elections in five key battleground states that the OFR lost in 2020:+ Pesylvania: the openly Christian fascist gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, who as a state senator led the effort to overturn his state's 2020 presidential election results." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Smith's reporting is good but he of course says nothing about why the Democrats lack a serious positive and progressive program: its cringing subordination to what the late Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin called the inverted totalitarianism of neoliberal era capital/ism.'Threat to Democracy' Concern Means Democratic Voter" | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "As Smith ads:Including -- and especially -- Trump making it official, sooner rather than later, that he's ruing in 2024." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "As Smith ads:Including -- and especially -- Trump making it official, sooner rather than later, that he's ruing in 2024." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "There's also the ongoing US House January 6 committee's next public hearing on Trump's attempt to cancel the 2020 presidential election and conduct of a coup - an effort that included the commission of at least ten felonies." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Marchant claims he would have refused to certify the 2020 election and wants more sheriffs at the polls to stop mythical voter fraud." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The Orange Fascist Reptile (OFR, hereafter short for Trump) has recently said that when it returns to power it will offer presidential pardons and government apologies to the frothing fascist traitors who physically attacked the US Capitol to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's victory." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "The NBC poll has been cited over and over by liberal cable news talking heads claiming that the main thing driving voters today is the danger to democracy posed by the Donald Trump MAGA Republicans, who were recently described by Joe Biden as semi-fascists - an understatement from a semi-liberal." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Bear in mind that more than two in three Republicans buy the OFR's Big Hitlerian Lie that the tyrant Biden stole the 2020 presidential contest through various forms of voting and election fraud." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "In a broadened reprise of the Hillary Clinton campaign's Pied Piper strategy of promoting the supposedly more beatable OFR as the Republican's presidential nominee 2015-16, moreover, Democrats, are investing heavily in the most horrific MAGA Republicans - the brownshirts of the Trump movement as one Democratic strategist puts it - ruing in the 2022 Republi-fascist primaries." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "In a broadened reprise of the Hillary Clinton campaign's Pied Piper strategy of promoting the supposedly more beatable OFR as the Republican's presidential nominee 2015-16, moreover, Democrats, are investing heavily in the most horrific MAGA Republicans - the brownshirts of the Trump movement as one Democratic strategist puts it - ruing in the 2022 Republi-fascist primaries." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
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39% : The OFR has specified 6 drastic plans it will implement if it can steal the White House back with help from his Republi-fascist friends in state legislatures and the state and federal courts: execution of drug dealers; forcing homeless people into "tent cities" (concentration camps); deploying the US military to crush crime, social unrest and protest; stripping job protections from federal workers and staffing thousands of federal positions with (his own) fascist appointees; eliminating the Education Department; restricting voting to one day.36% : But it's dubious indeed to think that voter backlash against the killing of Roe v. Wade will provide the Democrats enough turnout to succeed with: a highly unpopular Democratic president sitting atop an inflationary economy; 74% of US-Americans saying "the country is on the wrong track;" just 8 in 100 US voters put abortion at the top of their list.
31% :Not Much Reported: Climate and Abortion as Low PrioritiesTwo other parts of the NBC poll have gone without much if any attention from liberal cable news and Democratic politicos: the percentage of US Americans who put "climate [change]" as their top issue is just 9% and the percentage who do so with abortion is just 8%.
20% : And, of course, as with "threats to democracy," the abortion issue cuts both ways: many of those in the 8% who make abortion their top voting priority are certainly anti-abortion.
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