Right. I do get the logic of trying to pump up the communist threat. I suppose we ought to look at the survey and see what we think about that.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > > > is it unreasonable to conclude from this that the survey is more likely > to have reduced the actual number of people who believe in the moral > superiority of communism? that's what it looks like to me, but I have a bad > feeling that it may not be fair for some reason I'm not seeing here. > > It's hard to say. Their wording usually skews right, but the technique they > use seems to attract extremes of opinion. So it may be that they attracted > passionate commies. Or they wanted to talk up the commie threat. Or maybe > one in nine Americans wants to socialize the means of production. Hard to > say, since Rasmussen is so unreliable.
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