[lbo-talk] Obama, "intelligent, " "good, " "socialist" top 3 adjectives US public uses

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 24 18:27:56 PDT 2009


On Apr 24, 2009, at 3:51 PM, B. wrote:


> http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2009/04/24/a-word-to-describe-obama-socialist-makes-top-three/
>
> Describe Obama? 'Socialist' Makes Top Three
> Posted by David Paul Kuhn
>
> It's no longer radical for Americans to describe Barack Obama as a
> "socialist."

Pew interprets the label as "negative." I've written to ask them if this is based on evidence or not.

Doug



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