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randr

(12,648 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 11:17 AM Jan 2015

MSNBC ran a real time poll throughout the SOTU

and I must have missed how they responded to it. I saw a steady 90% approval from Dems, Reps, and occasionally Inds.
Did anyone hear any response?

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blm

(114,658 posts)
1. They don't want to talk about it. Their job is to control the citizenry for the powerful elites
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 11:28 AM
Jan 2015

by replacing the initial thoughts of the American people with corporate media's pro-fascist, anti-worker 'opinion-analysis'.

randr

(12,648 posts)
2. That was certainly not evident by the praise Mathews and others gave to Obama following speech
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 11:31 AM
Jan 2015

blm

(114,658 posts)
5. When MSNBC starts a new day they skip over the truth spoken the night before.
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 01:33 PM
Jan 2015

That is the purpose of Morning Joe and his 3 hour time slot.

The primetime line-up bone put in place the last 6 years to feed the left has never set the agenda for the political debate. Never.

 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
3. They said last night the lowest rating was in the 80's.
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 11:34 AM
Jan 2015

Republicans all over teevee screaming about protecting their corporate masters this morning.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
6. There seems to be a disconnect between what policies Americans support and who
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 01:48 PM
Jan 2015

they vote for. This showed up in the mid-terms , too.

dsc

(53,396 posts)
7. that wasn't a scientific poll
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 02:43 PM
Jan 2015

people went voluntarily to a website and agreed to participate. It is an unscientific sample of convenience and not valid in any way, shape, or form as a poll.

0rganism

(25,644 posts)
8. yeah, my son & i were laughing about it all through the speech
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 02:46 PM
Jan 2015

the conclusion we came to: the self-selected respondents to the real-time survey "powered by Bing Pulse" were much younger and more liberal than the voting public.

randr

(12,648 posts)
10. That was what I suspected as well
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 03:30 PM
Jan 2015

I just wondered if anyone heard any reporting on it.

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