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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
I.ve heard that a lot of "studies" are funded by political groups or special interest groups that demand a set outcome before appoving funding. You can skewer data anyway you see fit but liberals favoring liberal lawmakers and conservatives disliking liberal lawmakers is nothing new to me (other than the racial spin).
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Push polling, as it's called is very easy to detect. You may have gotten survey calls asking you if you prefer killing babies or letting them live. The questions are generally about that subtle, if you listen to the actual question at all.
This one seems to have been very careful about setting flat baselines (making both sponsors strong liberals so conservatives would dislike it equally, for example). And I would be very leery of any question that said "some people..." but that also makes for an interesting alternative.
Changing subject slightly, have you read about No Labels? This seems like a great organization and I love their ideas, and perish the thought, it was started by a couple Republicans.
www.nolabels.org/work ...