Poll: Pet owners prefer McCain over Obama

[apnu]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — If the presidential election goes to the dogs, John McCain is looking like best in show.

From George Washington's foxhound Drunkard to George W. Bush's terriers Barney and Miss Beazley, pets are a longtime presidential tradition for which the presumed Republican nominee seems well prepared, with more than a dozen.

Democratic candidate Barack Obama, on the other hand, doesn't have a pet at home, although he has promised his daughters a dog after the election, win or lose.

The pet-owning public seems to have noticed the difference.

An AP-Yahoo News poll found that pet owners favor McCain over Obama 42 percent to 37 percent, with dog owners particularly in McCain's corner.

Read more: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i23gT19o6C2I8dWDUfq6V5lES61QD91PM79G1

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Oh Noes!!!! We are screwn!!! McInsane has sewn up the pet owner block!

What shall we call them? "Cat-Moms" "Doggie-Dads"????

Anyway, enjoy a chuckle out of this, I did.

[lonestarnot]

1. And we know all about those horseshow managers now don't we.

Heck of a job Brownie! Oh and 3 dogs and 2 cats here and no one asked me what I thought.

[Rowdyboy]

2. Two dog daddies here who are firmly in the Obama camp!

[Botany]

3. I really need to see more about the sample that was polled

Really old people who old have really old little yap dogs must have made up a large
part of those polled.

[Oreegone]

4. What are they counting as pets?

Cows and chickens perhaps? and of course turkeys.

[Frisbee]

44. I believe...

They stood at a stoplight and asked any redneck with a dog in the back of their pickup truck.

[LibertyLover]

5. 5 dogs and 5 rats here and I'm for Obama

n/t

[DainBramaged]

6. Bullshit

[pipi_k]

7. Three-dogger for Obama

Seriously...anyone who votes for a candidate based on whether or not he or she has pets?

They deserve to have their voting rights revoked

[hadrons]

8. They'll be sharing their pets' food if McLame is in charge ....

Republicans prefer Alpo

[LynnTheDem]

9. Thanks, AP, for making us look even bigger fools in the eyes of the world!

Good fucking grief.

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Two cats, two dogs, 1 rabbit

all for Obama.

[Overseas]

11. Are John Sidney McCain III's "more than a dozen" pets scattered among his seven estates?

So he's "well prepared" for the pet contest is he? At least he's ready for something.
Unless he'll need someone to whisper the names of his pets into his ears when he's at some of the estates he visits less often.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

12. My animal coterie is firmly pro Obama!

a dog, a FIV+ cat, two gerbils, two fish.

[1monster]

13. No one asked me and I have a dog, seven cats, AND I'm fostering three kittens that someone

dumped when they were only three weeks old. (They practically ate me out of house and home until I got them weaned...the cost of kitten formula today is prohibitive!)

(On edit: voting Deomcratic ticket, of course.)

[DailyGrind51]

14. They are accustomed to urine stains, I guess?

[Faygo Kid]

15. Washington's dog was named Drunkard? How cool is that?

Might have to keep that one in mind.

Lincoln's dog was Fido, which you never hear used anymore. Drunkard and Fido would be cool names for a pair of dogs, with a great history. I'll remember that.

[kimmylavin]

23. I thought that was cool, too!

I've got a dog and five cats, so I'll have to remember that name for the next one! :)

And, of course, voting for Obama.

[Alcibiades]

16. Dog ownership is associated with higher income

It's also correlated with having children in the home:

"They found that for men: being married, living with children, being Midwestern and non-urban increased odds of living with a pet, and for women: being white, having a high income, living with children and living in a rural setting increased odds of pet ownership."

Let's see: non-urban whites with high incomes. The sounds like the squirearchy to me. They are not going to vote for Obama anyway.

It just so happens that the things that correlate with pet ownership also correlate with being Republican. There's nothing causal here, except that Republicanism and pet ownership correlate with the same socioeconomic variables. They looked as a few variables but apparently didn't ask about education and income! They would have to control for income to see if there was any independent effect, which they didn't do, because they are journalists, not political scientists or sociologists. I'm sure they have the software to run some regressions--they apparently don't think that's important.

[Baclava]

17. So how long has Obama hated cats?

It doesn't say.

[Arugula Latte]

39. Okay, if he hates cats, that is the ONE thing that might make me reconsider my support for him.

:grr:

Cat-hating says a LOT about a person, and none of it good.

[Justitia]

47. Obama had a cat when he was a bachelor in Chicago - a pretty grey one!

I think it says something special when a single guy gets his own cat :-)

I remember reading about him getting his first apartment in Chicago and he got a cat - I even saw a pic of young Obama in the apartment w/the pretty grey cat.

I cannot remember, for the life of me, if I read about his cat (whom his friends said he was very sweet to) in his book or a newspaper article, but I cannot find it anymore.

It must have been an article, because I distinctly remember seeing the picture of Obama w/the cat.

His later roommate also remarked on the cat.

Cats For Obama!

[Arugula Latte]

48. Okay, whew. Thanks. That makes me feel better.

I am totally over-the-top with that issue, I know, but I can't help it. :D

Obama is a cool guy, and cool guys like cats.

[dkofos]

18. Is that like saying ASSLICKERS prefer Mcsame??

[sakabatou]

19. Yo-yo (Yoruichi)

is for Obama!

[TNOE]

20. Is this the only poll in McStupid's Favor?

Seriously Pathetic. And its no doubt bullshit too.

[NYC Liberal]

21. They must be the same people who voted a Chimp into office.

[DinahMoeHum]

22. Those poor pets are probably fed the GOP-shit that passes for food.

http://www.raisingkaine.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14216

"...the Republican brand is in the trash can...if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf..."
- Congressman Tom Davis (R) district VA-11

:evilfrown:

[Juneboarder]

24. My doggie is strictly a lefty...

Ginger would NEVER let me vote for McSame!! She'd bite my hand off before I went to vote if that was the case :)

[virgdem]

25. My four democats...

completely disagree with this idiotic poll. They are all firmly in the Obama camp. Just who were they polling anyway - Republicans?

[Betty]

26. i have my two kitty boys

and we three are ALL DEMS, all the time. So was my dearly departed doggie who I lost this year. She would have bitten mcsame in the ass.

[Shoelace]

27. 12% undecided - gotta get to work on them huh?

with a plus, minus error of 2.3%.

What'd they do? Take that poll in the Phoenix, AZ burbs?lol. Many of Obama's supporters are younger, perhaps living in apartments, condos where pets aren't allowed.
Would love to see the same poll done in Oregon or Washington, Ca. too.

[blossomstar]

28. 5 dogs, 3 chickens, one obnoxious bird

ALL FOR OBAMA!!! I just am not seeing Cindy McSame taking care of the animals! Hilarious.

[MadrasT]

29. Horseshit.

That's just crap. Me and my house full of cats are ALL OBAMA supporters. :bounce:

Now I just need to figure out how to smuggle the little beasts to the polls and train them to press the right buttons.

[Ian David]

30. Lawsuit: Katrina Pets Executed

Source: ABC News

For nearly two years, pet owners from the low-lying Louisiana parish of St. Bernard have accused sheriff's deputies of having wantonly killed dozens of dogs they forced evacuees to leave behind during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, without regard to the dogs' size or the potential threat they might pose.

One owner said her family was forced at gunpoint to leave its dog behind. Another owner said residents became frantic when, they said, they overheard one deputy claim that "once everybody's gone, we're going to have target practice tonight." They claim in court papers that deputies were under orders to shoot every dog they found.

Two deputies have already been indicted by a grand jury in New Orleans on charges of felony, aggravated cruelty to animals. The Louisiana attorney general's office is investigating and this morning lawyers for a group of owners will file a comprehensive complaint in federal court in Louisiana seeking class action status for their clients.

For the first time, the St. Bernard Parish sheriff's office has acknowledged to ABC News' Law & Justice Unit that an internal investigation has been launched.



More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2876964

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

31. I have a Golden and No F'in way to McCain.

[slampoet]

32. My pets don't vote.

Any responsible owner wouldn't let them either.



As for the appeal of McCain?


Pets always like the smell of rotting meat.

[litlady]

33. Pro-Obama kittehs over here!

I have owned various pets and cared for animals throughout my life and I am voting Obama! But I do admit that kitteh lovers are cooler...

[DrZeeLit]

34. Our dog's all "Obama this" and "Obama that." I can't get him to shut up already about Obama.

I dunno what this poll is about, but it's delightfully STUPID, isn't it?

My dog, Casou, just nodded. "Yip! Yip!"

[RubyDuby in GA]

35. So untrue...I just ordered these for my pooches this morning because they asked me to:

Here's where you can get them:
http://www.politicalshop.com/

[bitchkitty]

36. Alas, my beagle is shallow and doesn't care.

But he votes how I tell him, so all is well!

[auburngrad82]

37. I have five dogs and I wouldn't vote for McCain if you payed me.

Just as being a fighter pilot doesn't qualify you to be president, being a pet owner doesn't qualify you to run the show either. There are plenty of bad pet owners around...

[mitchum]

38. My dog and 5 cats say "piss on McBush"

[ingac70]

40. Pet owners prefer the guy...

who would happily allow China to continue to poison our pets?

[Arugula Latte]

41. Cat people tend to be more liberal than dog people (yes, gross generalization, but holds up, IMO).

I know, I know, there are plenty of dog people here on DU, etc., but ...

Cat-hating men tend to be insecure about their masculinity, in my view. They need an animal slobbering and fawning over them. This profile fits lots of Freepers.

Men who love cats are the coolest.

[Justitia]

49. I agree. And when a cat loves a man, THAT man is the coolest - like my hubby!

Cats of all stripes LOVE my husband!
Stray cats, male & female both, immediately approach him, rub up against him, talk to him and follow him. They will even ignore me for him and I know all the secret kitty sounds!
Of course, our girl kitty at home adores him and lays in his arm like a cradled baby - she would never let me hold her like that.

If cats like a man, that says something inherently good about that man, IMHO.

O8)

[Arugula Latte]

50. Yep -- I married a cat-loving man, too.

That was very important to me.

He's a great kitty dad, and he's a great human dad, as well. :)

[ozone_man]

52. It's true, isn't it?

We're so liberal, we have three. ;)

[Mz Pip]

42. The only thing this pet owner

agrees with McCain on is that naps are good. The kitties agree.

[polmaven]

43. Both my Democat and I

will be firmly in the Obama camp, thank you very much.

[jaybeat]

45. Here's what one of our pets has to say about that

[a la izquierda]

46. Draper and Knuckles for Obama.

They're my two rescued doggies. One is a Viszla, the other a blind, old, gassy bulldog/boxer mix.

[shanti]

51. oh good grief

:eyes:

[nam78_two]

53. This cat person disagrees

[paparush]

54. 3 Cats and a Golden Recliner are firmly in the Obama Camp.

Eyeballing his couch for extended lounging possibilities!

[Brazenly Liberal]

55. Heh heh! We have 32 animals here (soon to be 33)

1 dog (soon to be 2)
4 cats
26 chickens
1 guinea hen

I see from this article that it's our obligation to be McCain supporters, but frankly we're too busy dividing up the CDs and meeting with the divorce lawyers now that it's the law that everyone has to get gay married. :rofl:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

56. Our cats own us - we do not own them

So I'm not surprised that anyone who "owns" and "bosses" a pet would support McCain. We are our kittehs' obedient servants!

[MadrasT]

65. Actually,

I think there is a great deal of truth in that statement (#56).

Kittehs for Obama!!!

[The Croquist]

57. I took a poll of my e-coli

I took a poll of my E. Coli and they support McCain 3 to 1.

[santamargarita]

58. Not dog owners, snake owners and snakes prefer McCain!

Bullshit!

[theliberalking]

59. Pet owners have a higher income

Than non-pet owners, many of whom are struggling to pay their bills and consequently refrain from adopting a pet.
And of course, the wealthier a person is, the more likely he/she is to vote Republican. That explains it.

[elvisbear]

60. Cathouses for McCain!!!

Never been in a cathouse but I've been in the dog house. :evilgrin:

[jcla]

61. My Yellow Lab and Pointer mix and my family

Strongly support Obama! Most of my neighbors own pets... And Obama supporters and Obama signs flourish here in the heart of Black Los Angeles! Guess they wouldn't ask us!

[superconnected]

62. They must have selectivly polled in a red area for this PROPAGANDA.

I really don't believe this and neither do my cats or our one dog.

[ravencalling]

63. this is such a crock!

This is not the only AP poll I have seen that is slanted against Obama. I saw another one that was horrid.. yet I can't find it again. I saw it and then it disappeared!

[Vidar]

64. I've loved all my pets, but who the fuck cares about such a vacuous poll?

[Sanity Claws]

66. If the poll was limited to owners of weasels, rats, and snakes,

I could see why they would favor McCain. But if the poll included owners (ha!) of cats, I think there was a problem in the way the poll was conducted.