It seems the onetime political news website Politico is edging toward a Daily Kos-like experience. January 14th we see yet another step in Politico’s journey toward left-wing extremes with a fake poll that claims that no one in South Carolina likes the tea party movement. Did I mention it was a “Facebook poll?”
The headline ways it all, really: Facebook/POLITICO poll: South Carolina users cool to tea party. If the fact that this “poll” is just some posting on a Facebook page doesn’t make you laugh at its validity, the hilarity continues as Politico goes on to treat this silliness as real news.
“Almost two-thirds of adult Facebook users in South Carolina say they aren’t fans of the tea party, according to a Facebook poll conducted today with POLITICO,” the “news” website begins.
Come on. Does anyone imagine that Politico reached “almost two-thirds” of the Facebook uses in South Carolina? Does anyone even imagine that Politico reached even a representative number of Facebook users in South Carolina? Was there any scientific method at all to this or was it just some posting that a handful of South Carolinians saw on Facebook? Bet you can guess.
But let’s not let science get in the way of a good liberal meme, OK? Politico has decided that everyone in South Carolina hates the tea party movement and that is that, you see?
Sixty-two percent of those surveyed said they are “not at all supportive” of the tea party, compared with 20 percent who were “somewhat supportive” and 18 percent who were “very supportive.”
Of those surveyed, women were slightly less supportive of the tea party. Just 35 percent were either “somewhat” or “very” supportive of the movement, compared with 42 percent among men.
Politico does admit that this poll has some, er, limitations.
The results only represent the sentiment of South Carolina users on Facebook, not registered voters or likely GOP primary voters that tend to be more reliable barometers of primary elections. The Facebook poll, for instance, doesn’t exclude Democrats or independents.
How many Facebook respondents were Democrats? How many were white, black, or Asian? How many were actual voters? How many really lived in South Carolina? How do we quantify these results? Who needs scientific controls on a poll, anyway?
At least Politico notes that their little Facebook poll that I am sure all the denizens of the local progressive movement were all about gaming was “at odds” with a recent study that showed that 85% of registered South Carolina voters had favorable views of the tea party.
But forget that other poll. It had scientific controls so it isn’t worth nuthin’. All we need to know is Politico’s 12 Facebook uses that it found at a local coffee house in Charleston really hate the Tea Party and that’s news, ya know?
Oh, and this “news” isn’t at all timed to negatively affect the GOP primary in South Carolina. Don’t you worry about that.
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Politico is nosediving in web traffic for a reason, its not news, its propaganda.
It was some guy named Barry's facebook site and it was almost 2/3rds of his friends in SC who responded, he manages his FB account all on his Blackberry. So the poll is as real as Politico is truthful.
A shining example of how polls are used as often as not to CHANGE public opinion. I am guessing some of you have been hit with a one sided telephone poll – where the questions are so sloped that a certain answer is guarenteed? This is what they are used for.
Sad…..When you realize you are quite irrelevant!
POLITCO……. hey ho….so sad…. you had to go. Like a wolf in sheep's clothing….. egos and money and above all else their blind lust for all things LEFT, might just be their downfall back to the reality that LIES….. eventually catch up with you.
I LOVE IT !!!! They are SO afraid of us it's hilarious! They can't find a regressive counter to the Tea Party, so they are forced to continue to attack us as if we'll go away. Meanwhile, they look like complete ass bags.
Ever play pick up b-ball? This is like the guy on the side line who talks a real good game, then gets in the game and COMPLETELY sucks so all he has left is trash talking with nothing to back it up. That's the left! They had the "Coffee Party", the Occucrappers, leftist talk radio, etc. ALL of them completely rejected by America. Meanwhile, the Tea Party has people in elected positions and is still strong and growing stronger, so what do they do? They try to tell you that if you like the Tea party you are in the minority! HILARIOUS! These guys are so transparent, they make glass jealous.
Keep on trying regressives. We know you HATE adhering to the Constitution, self reliance, individual responsibility, and fiscal sanity, but the majpority of America agrees with us.
Politico is a damn joke. Always have to be wary of any reporting they do… great job slapping em down.
The expressions on those guy's faces gives me the impression that they used to sell Obama Medallions nobody bought on the Home Shopping Network.
The problem with inventing the news is that the people who are making the news are liable to catch on.
The "Tea Party" is finished as a valid political entity able to affect policy.
As usual you guys are the last to know.
No one is afraid of regressive political hacks with no influence.
Sorry to rain on your fantasies of actual power.
politico is way ahead of this propaganda site on alexus.com
Actually their traffic looks fairly steady. Are you just making things up again, Missy?
Just curious. Do you have figures for this?
Read it and weep dingleberry…
http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12...
You REALLY consider that a reply? What, did you forget your, "I know you are but what am I blast"?
Aren't you late for a pint of chocolate milk and nap time?
I see. You're going to site a right-wing website as opposed to an actual web metrics company like Alexa.
Got it.
I see. You're going to site a right-wing website as opposed to an actual web metrics company like Alexa.
Got it.
Oh I see now. The Daily Caller cherry picked data to their liking.
Here's the latest: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/politico.com
Filter for a six month average and you'll see their traffic has actually increased.
Remember, you can't believe everything you read.
It's only the graphic from Alexa, Compete, Comscore and Alexa themselves but apparently facts are inconvenient things in your pathetic proglodyte mind.
I suppose Yahoo is now a right wing "extremist" website now for posing verifiable facts?
http://news.yahoo.com/political-season-heats-poli...
Shoot the messenger eh?
Alinskyism don't play here dipstick.
Do your own damn research.
Speaking of "cherry picking data", the graphic in the DC's article is a "traffic average", not just the one you prefer…
It is political season and a increase was fully expected but apparently you didn't bother to read the article from the DC.
Catering only to the left is a sure way to eliminate half of their former audience, leftyism as a business model is a sure loser…
Look to the collosal ratings and financial failure of "Air America" for a clue, you desperately need to get one.
who said that? Nancy Pelosi?
listen. when the Tea Party ever decides to hold another rally in D.C., like OWS did yesterday, there will be thousands and thousands of supporters…not 'hundreds' like OWS had yesterday. They had hundreds of people, left a ton of garbage and had an assault against a cop.
THAT's what a failed entity looks like…or is it hard to see that from inside a tent?
Oh, but see I did my own research, and presented it to you as it contradicted data that I told you was cherry picked.
Perhaps you missed the link. Here it is again:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/politico.com
Do your own research and stop relying on right-wing hate sites to do your thinking for you.
Why would I read The Daily Caller? If I wanted right-wing propaganda, I'd just watch the idiots on Fox.
Politico is losing readers by the hour.
This is a right center nation, if you haven't heard. A recent Gallup poll confirms that Republicans are the largest political demographic in the country…indy's second, pigressives third.
When Politico lost the right, they also lost many in the center, who crave neutral reporting. You have to be naive if you don't see that Politico is on the slide.
And as usual you log in to tell us we're finished. Over, and over, and over, and <yawn> over again.
Seriously dude, get a hobby.
And the Facebook polls does NOT exclude people in foreign countries
Australians and Canadians are very active in our poltical process online
Poltico was NEVER independent or moderate, It was alway a sham to handle the dialogue of the the right, for the benefit of the left
It's nothing more than a left wing created blog
No. I log in to inject truth into the conversation. The Tea Party had its fifteen minutes and then everyone realized they were the cranky old white people.
Hilarious! Politico is funnier than SNL, Letterman, and Leno combined. And they really think they're a "news" organization. That makes it all the more hilarious.
So you are ageist and racist too. And it's your buddy OWS, the cranky people, who just threw smoke bombs at the White House.
if you poll a family with a butt ugly kid (mom,dad,grandma,grandpa,aunts ,uncles,etc.)you'll get the kids beautiful,cute,etc.its all according to who you ask,will give you the results you want,look at msnbc,you'll never hear obamas an arrogant bastard,same idea.
Read the comments about this fairy tail @ Politico. Paul-bots and lefturds claiming victory ALREADY.
Just a curious side note: We TEA Party folks were also declared "dead" during the Spring and throughout the Summer of 2010. How'd that work out ?
Keep whistling past the graveyard (of liberals and RINOs who were unseated by the TEA party).
In my personal life, my BEST victories came when I was considered the "under dog" by hype and BS. November 2010 included. I AM A PATRIOTIC US CITIZEN and I don't know how to back down !
I give a one finger "salute" to those who think I'm dead ! F you !!!
Thanks to those who've voted me "thumbs down". It redoubles my convictions !
As a joke to what rev. Wright would say,"Don't count your chickens, before they come home to roost" !
So Politico has just given up on maintaining any vestige of legitimacy? Apparently, yes.
Um..excuse me, but you are a terrorist also, and we must fear you and your horrific violent tendencies. (and your public pooping) hmmm….
Yes, but did they publicly poop?
Yes, yes, and in that "fifteen minutes" you've successfully said the same thing about 60 times.
Sounds like Politco will be crying like scalded dogs after then election in November.
No one is afraid of regressive political hacks with no influence.
Sorry to rain on your fantasies of actual power.
Which is why you keep posting "you're DOOOOOOOOOOMED" type messages here, right?
You have to excuse Boo. His mighty intellect isn't quite what he thinks it is. I had to finally point out that I post using my real name, after months of challenging him to figure it out.
Granted, not many people post with their real names, but Boo claims to possess a high IQ so he should have been able to consider the possibility, then use it to act on his desires to send me to the hospital.
I guess he hasn't found the perfect deal in Orbitz yet.
The "Tea Party" is finished as a valid political entity able to affect policy.
Which is why you spend so much time here proclaiming such in the hopes it will be true.
As usual, you never think people will notice that sort of thing.
Oh sorry. Is this "too many" responses for you? Are you going to whinge about "obsession" or whatever?
No. I log in to inject truth into the conversation.
Actually, you don't. You're here to cause pain and revel in the thought that you're causing a, oh what was that little phrase you used? "Physiological changes" in people.
E.g., you try sending impotent insults and sneers and laugh when you think you've caused people pain.
Then you try to pretend you have a superior intellect, yet you can't figure out when someone you're desperately eager to beat up is posting under his real name until he finally tells you.
Odd, isn't it? How he likes to proclaim the people he hates have no power and yet I never seem to find mass postings proclaiming how powerless the Whig Party is…
Tea Party is for less government spending, less taxes. The majority of Americans are center right. Something smells rank about this Facebook/Politico poll.
I do have a superior intellect to you. We've proven that time and time again. I find it interesting that every time I try to engage in an actual conversation that involves use of actual intellect, you disappear. I'm still waiting for you to explain why implication carries no meaning in your mind. I'm still waiting for you to present your credentials that make you a reputable source of information where climate change in concerned.
In fact, maybe this would be a good time to present your credentials for why you should be taken seriously at all. Me? I've built businesses and programs and buildings. I've traveled extensively. You have seen products I've helped developed on store shelves. I have a great education. I've spent time in the non-profit sector with the inner-city poor. I've started companies. I manage people. I receive industry accolades on a yearly basis.
Run down for us what you could possibly learn about the world by working in a cubicle all day at a help desk.
I like how he's so much of a loser that he has to rip off your name, and his profile pic looks like someone Dexter Morgan would hunt down.
Actually according to alexa.com Politico has been pretty stable for the last 6 months and is currently ranked 255th in the US.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/politico.com#
BigJournalism on the other hand is ranked 5866th
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bigjournalism.com#
and BigGoverment is 2652nd.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/biggovernment.com#
Does your superior intellect understand what a non-scientific poll is?
Bubye.
Does yours? You're the ones freaking out about it.
Did you want to try to unsuccessfully prove that politico is losing readers too using ginned up statistics from right-wing hate sites while you're at it?
Bubye.
I do have a superior intellect to you.
Superior enough to miss that Patrick Chester was posting under the secret identity of… Patrick Chester.
Also, your "superior intellect" seems to miss the fact that your boasts lack meaning when you're posting them via an anonymous account. HTH, HAND.
I'm not a native Texan, but I have picked up a saying that fits you rather well: All hat, no cattle.
Oh, that's the backup.
Check out his two previous IDs http://intensedebate.com/people/boolean_radley (His first one, Display name was originally "boolean_radley") http://intensedebate.com/people/Chester_Patrick (Second one. Lasted about a week before he stopped posting for some reason.)
Which makes his blathering about my so-called "obsession" with him rather… projective. Unless "obsession" has been redefined to "remembers Boo's antics and mentions them" at some point while I wasn't looking.
Addendum:
I've built businesses and programs and buildings. I've traveled extensively. You have seen products I've helped developed on store shelves. I have a great education. I've spent time in the non-profit sector with the inner-city poor. I've started companies. I manage people. I receive industry accolades on a yearly basis.
What's amusing everytime you do this is it seems to mean you somehow think this justifies your jackassed behavior over three different accounts for over a year now. As I said when you tried this sort of boasting on your boolean_radley account: You claim all that and yet you're so empty you have to come here and try to inflict pain upon people simply because they have political views you dislike. That makes you look even more pathetic.
I don't recall having difficulty understanding that you were posting under your own name. What I do recall is you specifically stating that you would not fulfill your obligation to call me a pedophile to my face so that I didn't have to send you to the hospital.
We can do this as many times as you like, but it won't change the facts of the situation to make you look any manlier.
Yes. I do love your tired canard that my life is "empty" because I like to come here (every once in awhile) to "inflict pain" on people. Neither is true, of course, but I do understand that the small mind needs to connect dots that don't exist in an effort to create patterns thus creating order out of chaos, which the small mind simply cannot manage.
Oh. An I missed where you posted your life's accomplishments that would lend any credibility to the grand psychological diagnoses you're so fond of making, your credentials for disagreeing with 98% of climate scientists, your startling affinity for determining what stranger's houses look like, your insistence that implication carries no meaning, and your belief in economic fairy tales.
Maybe it would just be safer to assume you're young, somewhat educated in a field of no real importance, of average IQ who's never really done ANYTHING to distinguish himself from anyone else on the planet.
I guess that would once again explain why my house looks like a castle and your house looks like an apartment building.
And, for what it's worth, though it was not really my intent, I'm not terribly sorry I inflicted such pain on you.
HTH, HAND, WHINGER!
I don't recall having difficulty understanding that you were posting under your own name.
Oh please. You were bleating about how "impossible" it was to find a person in a city of five million. There's a "white pages" site you can go to to look me up by name and location. You proclaimed that I was posting anonymously in a lame "tu quoque" response when I pointed out you were an anonymous coward.
Keep dancing, little one.
What I do recall is you specifically stating that you would not fulfill your obligation to call me a pedophile to my face so that I didn't have to send you to the hospital.
That's (yet another) fabrication on your part: I never called you a pedophile here, so why am I "obligated" to call you one to your face? Also, you were stating you'd inflict bodily harm on me if I did say such a thing to your face, not say it so you won't inflict bodily harm on me. Try to remember your impotent posturing. Use flash cards if you need it.
We can do this as many times as you like, but it won't change the facts of the situation to make you look any manlier.
…and gosh, I believe the last time you tried the "manliness" crack I pointed out I wasn't doing that. You, pounding your chest, making imperious demands and such… are.
Unfortunately, the caricatures your tiny overheated little head manufactures to denigrate the awful people who don't accept your claims aren't reality. (*gasp* a Help Desk Analyst dares question you? How impudent.) Perhaps I've run into jackasses like yourself before (of a variety of viewpoints, even) and know your kind all too well.
You need to learn the difference between trying and doing as well. Oh, and the difference between material things and ones self. Claiming a "castle"-looking house doesn't make you any less of a jackass than you are.
Ah well, this has scrolled off into the nether regions of the blog so I'll let you have your usual last shot that I might read in a few weeks.
I notice that you once again failed to detail anything that might make you a credible source of information, anything that might garner respect among anyone that actually matters, or any reason you should be taken the least bit seriously by anyone at all.
I mean unless you think it's your affinity for playing "Mass Effect" that makes you worthy of the respect you so desperately seek…
P.S. Sorry I hurt your feelings again to the point where you found it necessary to dash off another in a long list of ridiculous blog postings demanding to be taken seriously…
P.P.S. You forgot to use the word "whingeing."
He can't help it CrazyRee, he's being paid to post.
P_C, you just KNOW he enjoys admiring himself in the mirror too. His Narcissism is so obvious. But that is apparent as we have both noticed that C_P HAS to get in the last word even if it is stupid.
Everyone here (the intelligent Big Greens at least) KNOWS he doesn't ever reply to your pointing out his theft.
Perhaps next C_Pee will accuse you of killing that cat and labeling it Liberal, that is the type of tactics he uses? After all it is what Alinsky taught.
Chatrick_Pester: Lies and more lies.
Ummm no.
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