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2006-03-10 Home Front: Culture Wars
Harris Poll Shows Military Still Most-Admired U.S. Institution
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Posted by Sherry 2006-03-10 10:09|| || Front Page|| [336075 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Congress at 10 percent

What the Dems don't grasp is that in their efforts to undermine the President, they're also taking themselves down.

the White House at 25 percent

Which supports the old saying that 'you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than someone [Congress] else in your group'.

A total of 47 percent of Americans said they have a "great deal" of confidence in the military

Which while good in a normal sense, because of the low numbers on the first two, it is not healthy for a republic. There is a little thing Jefferson wrote about 'consent of the governed'. Tick off too many people, too long, and that consent could move to other institutions. Something about ignoring history. I doubt the American military has any stomach to step in to the situation, that does not preclude it from being forced upon them. Fortunately, in the record the usual American approach up till now has been for military leaders [Washington through Eisenhower] to do it through more traditional methods.
Posted by Hupoting Groluse9049 2006-03-10 10:36||   2006-03-10 10:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Not at all a knock on the miliary, but this is actually very bad for the (small "r") republican form of government.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-03-10 10:47||   2006-03-10 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 The good news is the press is working very hard to beat lawyers in this poll. They'll be around 9% before you know it!
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-10 12:31|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-10 12:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Polls are the height of idiocy. The only kind of poll that is remotely accurate is an immediate "yes or no" poll, done right after people have been focused on something. e.g. coke vs. pepsi.

However, if even intelligent people have not been thinking about something, and are "ambush polled", which is most of the time, the results make them sound like dumbasses.

That is, if you were asked, right now, to name the justices of the Supreme Court, and only given 30 seconds to reply, how many would you get right; compared to if you had several minutes to think about it first?
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-10 13:32||   2006-03-10 13:32|| Front Page Top

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