Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Republican Party

I'm just excerpting some of the most flabbergasting results of this widely discussed polling. Much more available here. The crosstabs are here, and they indicate extraordinarily monolithic consistency in the responses, generationally, geographically, and so on, among self-identified Republicans. Nate Silver discusses these at great length here.

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 1/20-31. Self-identified Republicans. MoE 2% (No trend lines)

Should Barack Obama be impeached, or not?

Yes 39
No 32
Not Sure 29

Do you think Barack Obama is a socialist?

Yes 63
No 21
Not Sure 16

Do you believe Barack Obama was born in the United States, or not?

Yes 42
No 36
Not Sure 22

Do you believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama?

Yes 53
No 14
Not Sure 33

Do you believe Barack Obama is a racist who hates White people?

Yes 31
No 36
Not Sure 33

Should Congress make it easier for workers to form and join labor unions?

Yes 7
No 68
Not Sure 25

Do you support the death penalty?

Yes 91
No 4
Not Sure 5

Should same sex couples be allowed to marry?

Yes 7
No 77
Not Sure 16

Should gay couples receive any state or federal benefits?

Yes 11
No 68
Not Sure 21

Should openly gay men and women be allowed to teach in public schools?

Yes 8
No 73
Not Sure 19

Should public school students be taught that the book of Genesis in the Bible explains how God created the world?

Yes 77
No 15
Not Sure 8

Do you consider abortion to be murder?

Yes 76
No 8
Not Sure 16

Do you believe that the only way for an individual to go to heaven is though Jesus Christ, or can one make it to heaven through another faith?

Christ 67
Other 15
Not Sure 18

1 comment:

jimf said...

> Do you believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be
> President than Barack Obama?

Fox News surely thinks so. They're doing their best to keep
her in the public eye. (My favorite New Jersey diner, you
know. Sarah Palin -- Mitt Romney -- 2012!).

By the way, one of the Queens places I've been wont to eat
dinner in, a venerable (established 1890) bar and grill,
at which I always got an earful of Bill "no spin" O'Reilly,
was closed down by the health department last month.
I wonder if it's ever going to repoen. So much for my
Cajun chicken (and mouse droppings, or cockroach
exoskeletons, or whatever it was got them shut down.
I don't suppose it was Bill O'Reilly -- harmful to
customers' mental health?)