Pew poll: America trending Democratic, secular

This poll is the result of 8 years of liberal smears and a biased leftwing press, excluding about a 6 months abeyance after 9/11. [I have a lot more to say about PEW, the source of this poll, below.]

Let us take a trip back into time before we allow our opponents to bury it in the memory hole of revisionism.

The media smear started in late 1999 with the media’s attack on Republicans over Clenis and the ascendence of George W. Bush among Republicans. In spite of a year of concentrated bile aimed at Bush, and in spite of the media orchestrated claims of a “successful Clinton Presidency,” and why Al Gore would continue it, Gore was clobbered by the electorate. By rights Gore should have won election by more than a 2 to 1 majority in both popular and electoral votes.

As we all know, Gore’s popular vote advantage was razor slim and the electoral college tabulations were a dead heat.

Further, as we all know, BDS began on 13 December 2000 when the US Supreme Court tossed out Gore’s attempt to steal the Florida election by selective recounting, and has continued unabated right up until 9/10/2001.

It slacked after 9/11, for a brief period of a “patriotism” display from the Democrats and the media.

After that “grace period,” the anti-Repuublican, anti-Bush, anti-war media and official Democratic Party rancor has been continously rachetted upward.

The PEW survey we are discussing here is the end result of a biased and hostile media and duplictious behavior of the Democratic Party whose open sabotage of the war effort was aimed at restoring them into power and for no other reason.

Like 1974, there will be a rebound period where the Democrats are ascendant. Like the media’s hatred of Nixon, their hatred of Bush will continue long after Bush retires from office in 2009.

However, this is NOT 1974, and things are very much different today, not the least of which the fact that America if fighting a hot war and that the underlying technology of news distribution is completely different.

I predict that the rebound cycle this time will be much shorter than the 6+ years after Watergate. I think that it mmight even be over by the 2008 elections. I think, irrespective of Bush’s apparent inability to fight back on most issues, there is a sense among Republicans and conservatives OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY that it is long past time to start pushing back, and I expect this to happen. I see this, BTW, with Republican relatives and friends and even among a number of Democrats in the “blue state” where I live, who see their party crashing on the anti-war reefs and fear its breaking up because of the leftwing brownshirts that they have, defacto, put in charge of their party.

Here is the good news.

Despite this poll, other polls have shown that the majority of Americans (2/3rds, including Democrats) do not want to see America lose in Iraq or Afghanistan, and likewise do not want to see the troops undercut in any way.

This is a consistent result from immediately after the election and is unchanged 5 months later. Why voters gave control of Congress to the Democrats is NOT because America wants to immediately run from Iraq, but because of the apparent indifferent leadership and lackof PR skills of the Bush White House and some other issues including “pork” and an media-orchestrated sense of Republican corruption.

I point to the nearly 10 point bounce in “approval” of the surge since early February, that the major media is NOT reporting on, due to the early success of the surge. Despite a media blackout and continued attempts to undermine support of the war, most Americans want to see the surge succeed.

Unlike 1974, when the overwhelming liberal/Democratic Party oriented media was unopposed in its message, today is a very, very different environment. The blogs and alternate media (including talk radio) will shorten this “wilderness” time that the Pew organization is attempting to convince us is going to come about.

Those of us who either support Bush or support victory in Iraq need not begin slitting our wrists quite yet.

Now about the PEW surveys.

I will point out that Pew is NOT ideologically neutral. They are NOT “non-partisan,” or “ideologically neutral” folks just “reporting the facts, maam.” The research organization is FUNDED AND CONTROLLED by the PEW Charitible Trusts whose explicit agenda includes:

The Trusts is an advocate for policy solutions on important issues facing the American people when the case for change is compelling and where the facts are clear. At both the national and state levels, we engage the foremost leaders, thinkers, researchers and technical experts to identify pragmatic resolutions to pressing societal concerns. From this base of rigorous, nonpartisan research, study and policy analysis, we support a range of focused interventions that include highly targeted public education initiatives, advocacy efforts and issue campaigns. The goal is to inform decision makers about options and help them form consensus on policies that will drive positive change for Americans.

Our work in the policy arena falls into three major categories — the environment; health and human services; and state policy and education — with selected investments in other areas of significant and timely opportunity.

Our current top policy priorities include:

Environment: Global warming, Protecting ocean life, Wilderness protection
Health and Human Services: Foster care reform, Alcohol marketing & youth, Alcohol treatment policy, Genetics & Public Policy, Food & Ag Biotechnology, Retirement security, Nanotechnologies
State Policy Initiatives: Pew Center on the States, Government Performance Project, Pre-K Education, Improving Elections, State Sentencing and Corrections, Death penalty reform.

PEW is a leftwing funding machine. Period. The PEW survey has all the earmarks of a leftwing PR operation.

As such, their methodology and their data collection cannot simply be taken at face value. We have all seen how DEMOCRATS are oversampled in almost every media sponsored poll. We have all see cherry picked data and carefully formulated poll questions that appear to provide for a predetermined result in some of these polls.

I do not claim that such was the case in this PEW poll, but given the underlying philosophy, and given the importance of political domination to liberals, I simply believe that this poll ought not to be taken that seriously.

I believe that we are being “had” by PEW and the media.

In other words, Honora’s chortling at the beginning of the comments is another simple act of disinformation and/or sabotaging of our morale.

In conclusion, we should not simply dismiss this poll as partisan garbage, but should understand its limitations while heeding its message.

In 2008, the Republicans are going to have to field candidates that will not pander to the media, that have a clear sense of values common to the party membership, and who are not afraid to openly root for success in the war on terrorism. If Republicans cease pandering for media approval (which will NEVER come, BTW), and stay on message, the voters will cut short the dreams of hegomony and total control of the Democrats.

My 2 cents.

georgej on March 27, 2007 at 4:59 PM