OWS polls - Wall St. Journal "Democratic pollster" polls 200 - finds opposite of Time and Quinnipiac

[underpants]

This is huge shakes in RW radio today. They went and created themselves a poll. Surprise! Surprise!

The pollster and Fox News Democrat writes in the Wall Street Journal this morning that "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."

It's no great shock that "Democrat" Schoen would criticize Obama and the Democrats -- it's what he does to stay relevant and get his daily Fox News hit (he also fundraises for Republicans and lines up speaking gigs at right-wing conferences). What is eyebrow-raising, however, is just how awful Schoen's analysis of Occupy Wall Street is, even for someone known for vacuous and absurd political commentary.

Here's his methodology:
The protesters have a distinct ideology and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies. On Oct. 10 and 11, Arielle Alter Confino, a senior researcher at my polling firm, interviewed nearly 200 protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110180009




TIME Poll - Majority supports OWS-- majority of Republicans too. Twice the support of the TeaBaggers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=2119805

One of the juicier nuggets in TIME's wide-ranging new poll is that voters are embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement as they sour on the Tea Party. Twice as many respondents (54%) have a favorable impression of the eclectic band massing in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park than of the conservative movement that has, after two years, become a staple of the American political scene.

Of the respondents in TIME's poll familiar with the protests, 86% -- including 77% of Republicans -- agree with the movement's contention that Wall Street and its proxies in Washington exert too much influence over the political process. More than 70%, and 65% of Republicans, think the financial chieftains responsible for dragging the U.S. economy to the brink of implosion in the fall of 2008 should be prosecuted.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=2119805




New Yorkers Support Anti-Wall Street Protests: Poll
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=5029368&mesg_id=5029368
An even wider margin, 87 percent, agreed with the protesters' right to camp out in Lower Manhattan, as long as they obeyed the law. The movement began staging rallies more than a month ago.

Support for the protests was split down party lines, with 81 percent of the Democrats saying they backed them, while only 35 percent of Republicans said so.