11-16-2011, 12:20 PM
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Re: Occupy: Stuff the Left Won't See
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Originally Posted by cnredd
It's a bullsh*t poll...Partially anyway due to a lie of omission...
They ask about OWS and Tea Party GOALS....
Notice they NEVER ask "How do you feel about the ACTIONS at a Tea party protest compared to the ACTIONS at an Occupy protest?"
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Could be. In fact it's also heavily weighted for Democrats. But doesn't that make it even more remarkable that the Occupiers now come out less popular than the tea party? Here's some right wing comment.
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Looks like the party’s over — and I’m not talking about the Tea Party. Democratic pollster PPP’s new national survey shows support dropping dramatically for the Occupy movement. In fact, it now ranks below the national support for the much-maligned conservative grassroots movement:...
Why have opinions shifted so dramatically in regard to OWS and the Tea Party? The media coverage began to shift as the crowds got more out of control. Instead of talking about income inequality, media outlets were forced by circumstance to cover violence in Oakland and New York. The establishment of “rape-free zones” and the pressure on victims to refuse to cooperate with police became big stories, and those provided an entree to more media scrutiny of the use of funding in the movement, other violent episodes in the camps, and the general lack of a coherent agenda besides squatters’ rights.
Their sample certainly should have tilted this survey in favor of the Occupiers. Democrats comprise a ridiculous 41% of the sample, with Republicans slightly oversampled at 36% and independents far undersampled at 23%. In a sample weighted to the turnout model shown in 2010 exit polling, the Tea Party would actually lead OWS 44/35, and the generic Congressional ballot would be 46/42 for Republicans. On the better/worse question comparing the House GOP to its Democrat-controlled predecessor, the PPP split of 37/41 favoring the Pelosi-led 111th House would become 37/39.
As I wrote yesterday, the Occupiers have lost control of the narrative, thanks to their own excesses that even a friendly media could no longer ignore. They claim that they will move on to a new phase of the movement, but since the only coherent agenda they ever produced was squatting on public and private property, it’s difficult to see what improvement a Phase II could possibly bring.
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Awww: Protests featuring rape-free zones somehow less popular than the Tea Party Hot Air
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