Schoen is a well-known liar and corporate hack. He is trolling for corporate clients with his spin. No word he says should be taken at face value.
BREAKING: Doug Schoen Grossly Misrepresents His Own Poll Results To Smear Occupy Wall Street http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/18/347165/breaking-doug-schoen-grossly-misrepresents-his-own-poll-results-to-smear-occupy-wall-street/ On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:07 AM, c b <[email protected]> wrote: > The ones in Occupy Detroit seem very mature and not infantile leftish. > > Charles > > > http://liten.be//wkn4K > Survey: Many Occupy Wall Street protesters are unhappy Democrats who > want more influence > survey-many-occupy-wall-street-protesters-are-unhappy-democrats-who- > > The demonstration. Matthew Wolfe > > By Azi Paybarah > > 2:58 pm Oct. 18, 2011 | Tweet this article > > Here's a little bit more about Doug Schoen's survey of 200 Occupy Wall > Street protesters, which he wrote about in today's Wall Street > Journal. > > In the Journal column, Schoen, who is Michael Bloomberg's pollster, > said the survey, conducted by a senior researcher at his firm, was the > first "systematic random sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion." Its > findings, which formed the basis for Schoen's conclusions about "the > movement" as a whole, led him to write that Occupy Wall Street is > "dangerously out of touch" with American values and that protesters > are "bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies." His > lead was, "President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a > critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement—and it may > cost them the 2012 election." > > Left to my own devices to account for the raw responses to the survey > (which Schoen was kind enough to send to me), I'd say the opinions of > the protesters were not quite as ... exciting as all that. They are > about what I would have expected from a poll of the most committed > long-haul demonstrators down at Zuccotti Park, who probably skew a lot > younger and more activist-y than the much larger numbers of people who > have put in appearances downtown but don't have the wherewithal to > camp out, and are certainly an imperfect reflection of the overall > (apparently majority) segment of New York that has told other > pollsters that it sympathizes with what Occupy Wall Street is doing. > > What the pre-interpreted numbers seem to show, to me, anyway, is that > many of the protesters consider themselves Democrats, many will vote > for Obama in 2012, and, relatively speaking, "income inequality" > doesn't actually rank too high on their list of grievances. > > What frustrates you the most about the political process in the > United States? {Open Ended} > > 30% Influence of corporate/moneyed/special interests > 3% Our democratic/capitalist system > 3% Stagnant middle class wages > 21% Partisanship > 15% Joblessness > 6% Income inequality > 7% Corruption > 2% Entrenched bureaucracy > 2% Bush tax cuts > 2% Obama abandoned left > 2% Military spending > 2% Federal Reserve > 5% Everything > > Also, fascinating: > > What would you like to see the Occupy Wall Street movement > achieve? {Open Ended} > > 35% Influence the Democratic Party the way the Tea Party has > influenced the GOP > 4% Radical redistribution of wealth > 5% Overhaul of tax system: replace income tax with flat tax > 7% Direct Democracy > 9% Engage & mobilize Progressives > 9% Promote a national conversation > 11% Break the two-party duopoly > 4% Dissolution of our representative democracy/capitalist system > 4% Single payer health care > 4% Pull out of Afghanistan immediately > 8% Not sure > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
