Polls are great things to give one little lifts… if the polls affirm your opinion. That’s about all they are good for.
In the 50s, I believe, but don’t quote me on the time frame, there was a poll taken among consumers about whether they preferred butter over margarine. The poll indicated that consumers overwhelmingly preferred [...]
As Chicken-licken was going one day to the wood, whack! an acorn fell from a tree on to his head.“Gracious goodness me!” said Chicken-licken, “the sky must have fallen; I must go and tell the King.”So Chicken-licken turned back, and met Hen-len.”Well, Hen-len, where are you going?” said he.
“I’m going to the wood,” said she.
“Oh, [...]
Dr. Sanity has some interesting news on the polls front. Polls that clearly show what liars Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, et al. are:
THE POLL RESULTS THAT DON’T MAKE THE HEADLINES
Cliff May at The Corner has some recent poll results that are extremely interesting:
According to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, 61% of Americans [...]
On another blog: http://commonsenseamerica.net/blog1/?p=1334#comments there is a discussion going on about how the Democrats in Congress refused to listen to Petraeus.
One of the posts ended with this:
… I want to hear a definitive “we can’t afford this anymore†timeframe. 20-40 or 40+ what’s to long? We cannot afford to have an open ended war here. We [...]
Although the liberals will try to convince you it is.
Fear is a survival mechanism which activates a “flight or fight” response. Sometimes, flight isn’t possible and you are stuck with one response, fight. The Democrats on the Hill want us to run from Iraq. To effect this end, they create a fear of fear.
Fear can [...]
It looks like a disaster no matter how you spin it, because of the death toll, not of our troops but of the citizens of the country in which the war is being fought. There is a lot to be desired. I can understand that. I can even understand why lily livers on Capitol Hill [...]
In Politics During Wartime, Michael Delong has this to say:
The initial reports from the field regarding Private Lynch stated that she had gone down fighting, had emptied her weapon and that her actions were heroic. Based on these reports, politicians from her home state, West Virginia, wanted the military to award her the Medal of [...]