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    Bernie Sanders and Planned Parenthood are the most popular things in America, Fox News finds:
    A Fox News Poll released Wednesday shows that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Planned Parenthood, ObamaCare, and Vice President Mike Pence are all viewed more favorably than President Trump.

    National favorability ratings (percent who approve minus percent who disapprove):
    Bernie +29
    Planned Parenthood +25
    Warren +8
    Pence +4
    Obamacare +3
    Trump -9
    Ryan -10

    Sanders for a while now has been the most popular politician nationally. As well as the most popular of all senators among their own constituents (Sanders +70, McConnell -14).

    Sanders has somewhat bizarrely spent the last couple of months doing town-halls in Trump country to crowds of Trump voters, who cheer him as he criticizes tax-cuts for the wealthy, talks about healthcare being a right and not a privilege, advocates spending a trillion dollars on infrastructure, tuition free college and university. One voter thanked Bernie for cosponsoring a bill to help out-of-work-coal-miners, and noted that Mitch McConnell who is from a coal-state had blocked Bernie's bill from getting voted on in the senate.

    Here's the full town-hall in WV if anyone wants to watch the full 47 mins:


    It's somewhat amusing that the most popular politician in the US is an atheist-Jew who's a self-proclaimed democratic socialist. It's also interesting that the various recent conservative attacks on planned parenthood (fake videos, "selling baby parts" etc) don't seem to have dampened its popularity.

    Sanders/Planned Parenthood for 2020!
    "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
    "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
    "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Sanders had the same approval rating gap during the election. He didn't even make it out of the primary. A well liked loser is still a loser.
    "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

    There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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    • #3
      The above is Sanders national favorability rating among all voters. In the primary it was (mostly) only registered democrats voting (and furthermore they generally had to have registered as democrats more than 6 months earlier, so young Bernie-supporters generally were unable to vote in the primaries). Most registered democrats liked both Hillary and Sanders, and Hillary won among them in the primaries. Obviously if Sanders had gotten through the primaries he'd have flattened Trump in the general election, since in all US presidential elections for the last 30 years the candidate with the higher favorability rating has gotten more votes. Trump's national favorability rating was around -20 for much of the election cycle, while as you can see Sanders above is at +29, so it would have been the biggest landslide in modern presidential history.

      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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      • #4
        What a stupid analysis. Clinton had a (slightly) higher favorability rating and still lost. Sanders took absolutely no heat because Hillary was scared of scaring off his crazy young millenial fanbase and spent very little time attacking him. Sanders STILL lost. Trump would have absolutely destroyed him. The neocons that were fine with Hillary and tried to kneecap Trump would be crapping their pants at the thought of that bumbling idiot at the helm. Trump would suddenly look like Reagan 2.0 to them. Open socialist didn't even play well for him in the Democratic primary, the idea that it'd play better in the general is pure fantasy. Then again, "pure fantasy" describes most of your thoughts on American policy. I mean, you're an Alex Jones on steriods grade nut who thinks DRUMPF is a russian puppet and is going to prison any day now.
        "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

        There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
          Clinton had a (slightly) higher favorability rating and still lost.
          She won the popular vote. Obviously national favorability is a single national measure so it can only predict the popular vote, because it doesn't include a breakdown of which states that favorability is in.

          Trump would have absolutely destroyed him.
          LOL.

          who thinks DRUMPF is a russian puppet and is going to prison any day now.
          Well Comey is apparently going to testify publicly next week on the subject, and briefed Senators privately today on the subject, so we shall see I guess.
          "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
          "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
          "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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          • #6
            Sanders for a while now has been the most popular politician nationally. As well as the most popular of all senators among their own constituents (Sanders +70, McConnell -14).

            Sanders has somewhat bizarrely spent the last couple of months doing town-halls in Trump country to crowds of Trump voters, who cheer him as he criticizes tax-cuts for the wealthy, talks about healthcare being a right and not a privilege, advocates spending a trillion dollars on infrastructure, tuition free college and university. One voter thanked Bernie for cosponsoring a bill to help out-of-work-coal-miners, and noted that Mitch McConnell who is from a coal-state had blocked Bernie's bill from getting voted on in the senate.
            People like him as a town hall meeting attendee.

            The stats also mean that Bernie and the people in the Town Hall meetings need to study the US Constitution and learn what the federal government is not allowed to do; Bernie covered it pretty well -- or, maybe it is more accurate to say, he violated it very well. "Let us do evil that good may come of it?" (Rom 3:8) Is this what the people are advocating?
            Thanks for pointing out their ignorance.

            Also, why would the audience be so duped to give money to the feds just to have it returned to the states in order to upgrade roads? That has been a big area of blindness among Americans.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
              She won the popular vote. Obviously national favorability is a single national measure so it can only predict the popular vote, because it doesn't include a breakdown of which states that favorability is in.
              Sanders would've gained EVEN MORE hysterical California democrat votes!

              Well Comey is apparently going to testify publicly next week on the subject, and briefed Senators privately today on the subject, so we shall see I guess.
              traceywalkback.jpg

              Morell pointed out that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Meet the Press on March 5 that he had seen no evidence of a conspiracy when he left office January 20.

              "That's a pretty strong statement by General Clapper," Morell said.

              About the dossier, Morell said, "Unless you know the sources, and unless you know how a particular source acquired a particular piece of information, you can't judge the information — you just can't."

              The dossier "doesn't take you anywhere, I don't think," he said.

              He continued: "I had two questions when I first read it. One was, How did Chris talk to these sources? I have subsequently learned that he used intermediaries.

              "And then I asked myself, why did these guys provide this information, what was their motivation? And I subsequently learned that he paid them. That the intermediaries paid the sources and the intermediaries got the money from Chris. And that kind of worries me a little bit because if you're paying somebody, particularly former FSB officers, they are going to ell you truth and innuendo and rumor, and they're going to call you up and say, 'hey, let's have another meeting, I have more information for you,' because they want to get paid some more.


              crazy liberal information gathering process:

              Idiot liberal: Hey guys, I got a Benjamin for anyone with dirt on DRUMPF.
              Totally reliable source: I heard he hired a couple of hookers to pee on Obama's bed.
              Idiot liberal: Sounds credible, here is your money my honest reliable source.
              "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

              There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                The stats also mean that Bernie and the people in the Town Hall meetings need to study the US Constitution and learn what the federal government is not allowed to do;
                Oh yeah, that's right, you have crackpot theories on healthcare being unconstitutional. Care to explain them so we can laugh at you?

                Also, why would the audience be so duped to give money to the feds just to have it returned to the states in order to upgrade roads?
                Infrastructure in general is much more than just roads. And if it's a nationwide policy, the feds may as well collect the taxes rather than the states.
                "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                  Oh yeah, that's right, you have crackpot theories on healthcare being unconstitutional. Care to explain them so we can laugh at you?

                  Infrastructure in general is much more than just roads. And if it's a nationwide policy, the feds may as well collect the taxes rather than the states.
                  The US Government is restricted specifically by Amendment X from any power (to make laws) not specifically granted them within the Constitution; do you need me to list every clause in the US Constitution and say "this doesn't grant power to make and control and health system?" I can readily understand you being ignorant on this point since you are not a direct benefactor of the protections we have from a runaway government. If you wish to laugh, I hope you at least understand the importance of having some laws to stop people from behaving badly. I could at least wish you were part of the solution rather than a promoter of illegal acts.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                    The US Government is restricted specifically by Amendment X from any power (to make laws) not specifically granted them within the Constitution
                    Sure but consensus opinion of both historians and judges over the years has been that that clause doesn't really need to exist as it's implicit in the idea of what the constitution does anyway, and that as long as the Feds don't go stomping all over the power of the States, it's okay. In a 1985 decision, SCOTUS implied the criteria for rejecting federal actions based on the 10th amendment would be "that [it] is destructive of state sovereignty or violative of any constitutional provision".

                    Most federal actions are regarded as legal under the "commerce clause", which grants the Feds power to regulate 'commerce' between states, where commerce has historically been given a very, very, expansive interpretation by the judiciary. Obviously, something like Obamacare that sets up "healthcare marketplaces" is all about commerce. Obviously the 16th Amendment allows the Federal government to collect taxes, so they have the power to collect and spend taxes and thus can provide expanded medicaid subsidies and medicare etc.

                    The part of Obamacare where the 10th amendment that you cite, was relevant, was that the Federal government wanted to offload 10% of the costs of the medicaid expansion onto the States. They don't have the constitutional power to do that by force, which is why the individual states had to voluntarily sign on to the medicaid expansion.

                    do you need me to list every clause in the US Constitution and say "this doesn't grant power to make and control and health system?"
                    No, but you perhaps could explain your creative theories as to why the accepted (broad) interpretation of the Commerce Clause, and also the 16th amendment, don't allow the Feds to tax people and spend that money on healthcare.

                    I mean, do you think Medicare and Medicaid (around since 1966) are unconstitutional and always has been? How far does your crazy go?

                    I can readily understand you being ignorant on this point since you are not a direct benefactor of the protections we have from a runaway government.

                    Your government is so absurdly full of checks and balances that it operates in almost total gridlock for decades at a time, and everyone hates it as a result. It's just a badly designed system which urgently needs modernizing.

                    I hope you at least understand the importance of having some laws to stop people from behaving badly. I could at least wish you were part of the solution rather than a promoter of illegal acts.
                    I can understand having a few basic human rights laws as a no-infringement area for government. That makes sense. But the fact that you view providing healthcare as "behaving badly" is...
                    "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                    "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                    "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                      Morell pointed out that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Meet the Press on March 5 that he had seen no evidence of a conspiracy when he left office January 20.
                      Congressman Schiff commented today, after being briefed by Comey that he couldn't categorically deny the existence of evidence connecting the Trump Campaign with the Russians.

                      More interesting, was that the entire set of congressmen and senators briefed by Comey came out looking shell-shocked and like their favorite dogs had died. Reporters who have followed politics for years were comparing the look on Feinstein's face to the time when she'd had to announce the deaths of Moscone and Milk. Whatever they were told, it rattled both the Democrats and Republicans there. Neither the Dems nor the Republicans were in gloat-mode, they were in "this plane might just need those life-jackets under the seat" mode. The hypothesis I've seen floated to explain this is that they were told that Russia basically caught America with its trousers down and dictated the outcome of the election in order to install its puppet, and that the FBI is going to try and take down Trump for his Russia connections and that this is going to come dangerously close to destroying the American government and causing a constitutional crisis because the FBI is an agency under Trump's control and the President is afforded certain legal immunities.
                      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                      • #12
                        Is this the same media that predicted a Hillary landslide?
                        They're relying on the same sorts of polls that had a spectacular failure this past November?

                        Okay.
                        Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View Post
                          Is this the same media that predicted a Hillary landslide?
                          They're relying on the same sorts of polls that had a spectacular failure this past November?
                          The polls were generally accurate to within their margins of error in November, and Hillary won the popular vote as they were predicting. Your post seems both irrelevant to the topic and factually incorrect.

                          P.S. As you can see here, on the eve of the election, the latest national polls varied from Trump winning by 2% through to Clinton winning by 6%, and they averaged Clinton winning by 3.3%, and their margins of error were around 3%. The final results were that Clinton won by 2.1%. So the polls were out by an average of 1.2%, which isn't much.
                          Last edited by Starlight; 03-16-2017, 05:59 AM.
                          "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                          "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                          "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
                            The polls were generally accurate...


                            If by "generally accurate" you mean they​ generally predicted the exact opposite of what actually happened then, yes, they were "generally accurate".

                            Sorry, kiddo, but even Newsweek was left scrambling to explain how the polls could have been so wrong.

                            http://www.newsweek.com/polls-2016-u...clinton-520291

                            Half the fun of election night for Trump supporters was watching the stunned reactions of liberals who had been repeatedly and confidently assured that they would wake up on November 9th with a smile on their face and the words "Madam President" on their lips.
                            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                            Than a fool in the eyes of God


                            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              The polls were generally accurate to within their margins of error in November, and Hillary won the popular vote as they were predicting. Your post seems both irrelevant to the topic and factually incorrect.
                              So keep on believing the polls, by FOX News no less... my gerbils, why do I post on this forum?
                              Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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