[lbo-talk] Americans pissed, sez Greenberg

Robert Wrubel bobwrubel at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 30 17:43:12 PDT 2007


This is just received opinion for the majority -- the war was a mistake, but the basic system (economic) is fine. The highest estimate I've seen for people who might face mortgage default is 20 million. That's not enough to register on the poll.

BobW

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > However, I am confounded by his point
> > -- i.e., polls show that Americans think their
> private lives are just
> > ducky, but they also think the wheels are coming
> off the nation as a
> > whole.
> >
> > If that isn't proof positive that Americans are
> dumber than shit, I
> > don't know what would qualify.
>
> Sometimes pollsters use questions about how people
> perceive neighbors
> or their larger world as a way of getting a handle
> on their real
> opinions about their own lives - esp on stuff where
> there's social
> disapproval involved. Classic example is to ask
> evaluation of others'
> views on race and racism. Since it's criminally
> unpatriotic to be
> anything but optimistic and happy in the USA, it
> could be that the
> questions about the state of the nation reveal
> people's actual views.
>
> Doug
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