SURVEYS I'D LIKE TO SEE...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Surveys are a tricky form of propaganda and there are so many these days. I'll offer a few surveys that I feel might serve my political goals: but how creative are you? It can serve as not only entertaining but also educational, when you analyze the many forms propaganda can take.

For example:

say on a touchy subject, like Welfare.

Did Republican job-exporting and fuel prices increase or decrease the overall need for social services? On this issue any reasonable, honest person must vote the party caused an "increase" in both the overall need and number of filings for social services, as compared to the Clinton years. Just think of the mental impact on viewers, as CNN reports the statement over and over again.

The beauty of good propaganda lies not in the results of a survey question but in the question itself. As local primaries draw near consider the questions asked in surveys before you buy into ANY media results.

Here's another one I'd like to hear:

With nearly 2,500 deaths in Iraq, as the president proves to be a profiteering war criminal, should he face a firing squad or hanging as punishment after his conviction? I vote for "hanging" because firing squads have a certain military ring to them and we all know about a less than illustrious military service record of Bush.

Anyhow, just for fun; which survey question would you like to hear drilled into the America's shared consciousness?

[pepperbear]

1. "do you think citizens should be

prohibited from protecting their property, medical decisions, health benefits, and custodial responsibilities soly on the basis of their sexual orientation?"


fat chance...because it will always say

"should marriage be defined as between a man and a woman?"

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. here's a better one on the gay issue that REALLY might divide them

With so many states recently opting to recognize gay marriage, did Bush and his Republican Congress, increase or decrease gay marriage in America? That might change a few neocon minds if it was reported into the FOX-hole networks.

[BlueJazz]

2. "Does the Republican's consistent refusal to raise the Minimum Wage..

..put doubts (in your mind) as to their so-called "Compassionate Conservatism""

[Jeffersons Ghost]

11. short and sweet works best in broadcast media, that's another good one

[Lib Grrrrl]

3. Do You Think

Americans should be denied the right to earn a living, simply because they no longer represent the gender of their birth?

Of course, they would never actually frame the question that way....

[Lib Grrrrl]

4. Or...How About This One???

With increased job outsouricing, less job security, and higher energy prices, with less benefits and with skyrocketing health-care costs, and ever-more uninsured Americans...are you, in economic terms, better off or worse off than you were prior to 2001?

[Lib Grrrrl]

6. Here's Another

With increased energy costs, increased outsouring and Wal-marting of jobs, with the stagnation of wages, and the ever-increasing cost of goods and services, with less benefits, skyrocketing health insurance costs, and ever-more uninsured Americans, with fewer good-paying jobs in the United States...do you think you are more likely, or less likely than your parents, to achieve the American Dream?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. Now your getting the hang of it Grrr. we'll make a spin-doctor of you yet!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. Your posts inspire! here's another approach

After eight years of complete Republican control, along with run-a-way inflation, lost Constitutional freedoms and a mind boggling national debt, do you feel more or less]/l] secure as the government finally talks about fencing our southern border?

[Truthy Nessy]

8. I have one about Iran.

the question would be
Do you really believe that President George W. Bush is pursuing diplomacy when he already deploying Marines for invasion in Iran?

PS: On Friday my friend's son who is a Marine told his Dad they are being deployed to IRAN in the next few weeks. hmmmmm

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. I'd SAY! wow Nessie! that needs to be in the breaking news survey section