I would idly speculate on how much fun a polling company could have with this, but the number of Republicans who claim to think Obama a Muslim pretty much shows the logical limits of it. They're not actually that dumb.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> http://thehill.com/house-polls/thehill-poll-week-2/124177-the-hill-poll-swing-district-voters-more-likely-to-see-dems-as-dominated-by-extremists-
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> POLL: Voters more likely to see Democrats as dominated by extremists
> By Alexander Bolton - 10/14/10 06:00 AM ET
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> Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more
> dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP.
>
> This result comes from The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll, which found
> that 44 percent of likely voters say the Democratic Party is more dominated
> by its extreme elements, whereas 37 percent say it’s the Republican Party
> that is more dominated by extremists.
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> The revelations in a survey of 10 toss-up congressional districts across
> the country point to problems for Democrats, who are trying to motivate a
> disillusioned base and appeal to independents moving to the GOP ahead of the
> Nov. 2 election.
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> The polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland conducted the survey, contacting
> 4,047 likely voters by phone between Oct. 2 and Oct. 7. The margin of error
> for this sample is 1.5 percent.
>
> More than one in every five Democrats (22 percent) in The Hill’s survey
> said their party was more dominated than the GOP by extreme views. The
> equivalent figure among Republicans is 11 percent.
>
> ...
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