Comments on: US Political Belief vs Media Attention Given

By: Barack Obama

Barack Obama — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:33:30 +0000

no comment.

By: kitty kitty

kitty kitty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:30:34 +0000

YOU CREEP ME OUT!!!!!1!!! GET AWAY!!!!!!!1!!!!

By: pHogs

pHogs — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:20:01 +0000

it wasn’t a landslide

By: del vasco

del vasco — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:20:35 +0000

slightly larger than LBJ’s landslide, but from little ACORNS grew this big EGO. popularity falling, still use of “I” going up.

By: Proud to be dark red section

Proud to be dark red section — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:28:05 +0000

Yet this is so true.

By: Thagsie

Thagsie — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:45:50 +0000

Pi-th!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:52:12 +0000

I would like to see the sample selection, sample size, population and methodology used in the formulation of those graphs, I think the results might be skewed.
Please also include standard deviation between classes, and the mean used to develop the categories.
Lastly, I do not believe Democrats eat puppies, they only engage in raping children and murdering babies.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:32:34 +0000

No, it was co-opted by statists. Liberal used to mean supportive of human liberty, was then transformed into meaning supporting reform and opposition against established policy, into liberty for government to do whatever the hell they can so long as they keep getting elected.

I’m not a conservative and I’m not a liberal, but I am definitely not a moderate! I’m a libertarian. I’ll eat puppies and kittens.

By: DR3DKnø†

DR3DKnø† — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:36:10 +0000

haha this is frikkin great.

sometimes the truest things are in fact flippin hilarious

By: Jack Sprat

Jack Sprat — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:30:02 +0000

if that graph is true, then how did obama win the election in a landslide?

By: Da Grim

Da Grim — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:18:59 +0000

Hmm. I consider myself to be in the middle. I believe in Pro-choice. I believe in the right to bear arms. I believe that Gays should be allowed to marry. I believe in smaller government. I believe in the death penalty. I believe in Stem-cell research.

I don’t follow either party because they have a few of what I believe, but a plenty that I don’t.

Not sure of what your definition of a centrist is but I think this qualifies.

By: tyler

tyler — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:53:37 +0000

by the way, that’s exactly what a troll does.
anyway, have a good day, just had to tell you cause you didn’t seem to know

By: emb

emb — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:11:47 +0000

you forgot babies!

By: irv

irv — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:43:46 +0000

I LOVE IT!

the beauty of symmetry, the pleasance of wit.

By: Fred Pennsylvania

Fred Pennsylvania — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:18:43 +0000

I have a modest salary, but I’ve saved a great deal they way people save … no vacations or bling, used cars, home cooking, few frills. Of course, if the stock market continues to tank, 401(k)s are abolished by eager Dems, and the value of the dollar is inflated away as it was under Carter, I’m screwed.

And so are you!

By: Matt11

Matt11 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:36:58 +0000

OMG LIBERALS DO NOT EAT PUPPIES THAT IS A LIE!

We are elitists. We only eat the finest orphans. Duh.

By: AnonymousPoliticalNerd

AnonymousPoliticalNerd — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:21:05 +0000

It is true! Republicans (sometimes) eat puppies, kitties, and others….

By: PeppaMama

PeppaMama — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:24:05 +0000

Ah, dear fubuki, could you possibly be an engineer? Excellent…!

By: xxxxxxx-head

xxxxxxx-head — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:39:00 +0000

It’s about time someone finally cleared that up. We would never eat adorable puppies, that’s just cruel!!!!

Here kitty kitty……..

By: xxxxxxx-head

xxxxxxx-head — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:38:11 +0000

I retract my name, as I could not think of a better alias for this post. I humbly accept your -2 pts.

By: P.

P. — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:12:27 +0000

Yeah, Talk radio is conservative heavy… But who listens to talk radio? also quite a few of those stations are “Fox”, so you are just repeating “Fox” over and over…

Now Televised news… That’s where most people get their info, and if you keep a score card handy and rate how news channel color politics, it’s either Republicans are saints (Fox), or Republics are devils (Everybody else). Reps are not evil. Dems are not evil. Both sides just want what they feel is best for the country.

My example of how the media is bias: During the Bush/Kerry election, we had Bush show up in town to give a speach. Kerry visited a neighboring state. Our local news covered it this way: Bush got a 15 second blurb (Emphasizing his worst qualities) , a 1 minute interview with a PO’d person that didn’t get to see him (person didn’t register before hand)… and Kerry got almost 10 mins, with key excerpts from his speech hammering home his best qualities.

Now what is bigger local news? the current president visiting your town (for the first time ever), or a presidential candidate visiting your neighbor state?

Yeah.. Unbias.

By: El Ojo

El Ojo — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:28:56 +0000

Disagree, man. I’m an old-school Labor Democrat who briefly flirted with the Republicans in the ’80s, and voted for Bush the first time, but not the second. My beliefs never changed, and I tend to be very active in local issues, but the parties have been better and worse over time about addressing the issues that I care about. That’s why I count myself a “moderate” — although this time, I canvassed neighborhoods for Obama.

By: El Ojo

El Ojo — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:24:33 +0000

You’ve earned the new puppy!

By: meh

meh — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:33:24 +0000

LISTEN UP FOLKS: we have a smart one.

By: meh

meh — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:31:22 +0000

LOL +1 for use of “puppy muncher” … but unfortunately, -2 for support of Limbaugh.

By: meh

meh — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:30:12 +0000

Actually double win for exploitation of wl’s misspelling of the word meaningful.

By: PeppaMama

PeppaMama — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:34:01 +0000

Have to say I’m in the “don’t give a lukewarm rat’s butt” category…well said, Fred! Yes, I voted. No, I don’t have enough money that I avoid concern about the current state of America. It’s just that I HATE POLITICS!

By: PeppaMama

PeppaMama — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:27:39 +0000

ROFLMAO…great graph, by the way, Jenny Darrah.

By: Kian

Kian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:30:33 +0000

In response to your take on the “liberal media,” here’s what Maddox has to say about it: “Whiny, bitching, cry-baby conservatives love to prattle on and on about the “liberal media.” To be fair, except for FOX News (Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, John Gibson, Neil Cavuto, Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill, Brian Kilmeade, Brit Hume), Clear Channel, Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Ann Coulter, Newsmax, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, The New York Post, Sinclair Broadcast Group (WLOS13, Fox 45, WTTO21, WB49, KGAN, WICD, WICS, WCHS, WVAH, WTAT, WSTR, WSYX, WTTE, WKEF, WRGT, KDSM, WSMH, WXLV, WURN, KVWB, KFBT, WDKY, WMSN, WVTV, WEAR, WZTV, KOTH, WYZZ, WPGH, WGME, WLFL, WRLH, WUHF, KABB, WGGB, WSYT, WTTA), David Horowitz, Rupert Murdoch, PAX, and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, they’re right.”

Yeah. That about sums it up.

By: fubuki

fubuki — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:00:42 +0000

Chart Type Selection Fail. These data were (see how I correctly use the plural of datum?) clearly made for a two-series smoothed line chart. Sigh…

By: limbaugh-head

limbaugh-head — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:24:59 +0000

can’t wait fer my gubment handouts. pssshhh….liberals.

By: limbaugh-head

limbaugh-head — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:22:25 +0000

I wouldn’t go bragging that too loudly. Puppy muncher.

By: ...

... — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:14:50 +0000

You quoted zapp brannigan….. wow

By: O}=

O}= — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:55:29 +0000

Yeah. The blue bar should be breaking out of my monitor.

By: O}=

O}= — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:54:33 +0000

Probability most people voted for him because everyone else was: 99.99999% as well.

By: Loop the Lup

Loop the Lup — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:44:27 +0000

With how much attention the media gave to “undecided voters,” I was expecting a somewhat bigger bulge in the middle of the second graph. But that’s just me.

By: Loop the Lup

Loop the Lup — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:39:07 +0000

In the words of Gilbert and Sullivan:

“I often find it comical
(fal lal la, fal lal la)
that nature always does contrive
(fal lal lal, la)
that ev’ry boy and ev’ry gal
that’s born into the world alive
is either a little liberal
or else a little conservative!”

By: kc

kc — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:30:10 +0000

A f-ing Men

By: Zaer

Zaer — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:10:35 +0000

Thaaaaaaank you. People tend to take the numbers far too literal. It’s exaggerated. It gets the point across. It is funny. For ceiling cat’s sake get over yourselves.

Someone should do a graph on the percentage of people who actually look past the fact that the numbers are purposefully unrealistic and see the joke…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:45:16 +0000

Probability submitter still voted for Obama: 99.99999%

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:49:10 +0000

WIN!

Except it’s meaningful

By: John

John — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:46:40 +0000

It’s too bad the second graph is wrong…

By: January

January — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:38:19 +0000

Considering that Europe is primarily composed of nations with some degree of socialist policies (national health care, high taxes, putting power into the hands of many people and not just a few), I suppose American Liberalism WOULD seem conservative.

However, I would hardly call true conservatism religious fundamentalism. True conservatives don’t really care for the fundies either, and besides, it’s primarily economic and foreign policies that make one conservative (that, and the idea that people should be responsible for themselves and not expect the government to nanny them).

By: ClickClick

ClickClick — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:36:39 +0000

Folks, this graph is NOT about population political belief percentages.
It’s everything about how the media gives the most bang to the least common fractions.
And you know, it’s not just politics where the media mucks like this with our news.

By: Bloobeard

Bloobeard — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:30:27 +0000

Gah! Don’t let her out on voting day!

By: January

January — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:29:46 +0000

Of course, the problem with actually researching your beliefs is that no matter what you believe and how well you back it up, if your beliefs do not match up with the beliefs of the majority of the people reading what you think, you will be accused of getting all your information from whatever the large news organisation for the unpopular view. So, I could make a well-thought out argument against Obama, but I guarantee you I would get replies telling me to stop watching Fox News and quit reading Townhall.com and think for myself, even though I do not watch Fox News nor read Townhall.com.

Likewise, if I were to go to a primarily conservative place and argue for Obama based off of my own research, I would be told to quit allowing myself to be brainwashed by the liberal media and quit reading the Daily Kos, and go think for myself when, again, I don’t read the Daily Kos, and do not get my research from televised news sources given how inaccurate and biased they are.

(That may be the one conservative point I cannot argue with, that the media has a liberal bias. Especially as the media itself admits they purposefully ran much more negative coverage about the Republican ticket, and how obvious it is that the media is biased against President Bush, seeing as they blame everything on him even when there is no plausible way for it to be all his fault. They really ought to look at Congress, with it’s record low 9% approval rating. Except they won’t, because it’s a very liberal Congress.)

Of course, I’m a Libertarian, so everyone mocks me.

By: ClickClick

ClickClick — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:24:02 +0000

Gasp!!!!

By: Shin0bi272

Shin0bi272 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:08:04 +0000

The graphs are inverted… the bulk majority of the population are on one side or another and the middle are the people like my mom who make up their minds at the last minute and vote for the guy whos ahead in the polls… sad really.

By: Dina

Dina — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:50:45 +0000

You proudly think that Republicans eat puppies? Because that’s kinda sad.

By: raspberry

raspberry — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:41:31 +0000

I agree. There are so many people out there who just spout what they heard on tv. They don’t actually research into it. I wish people were taught to question their beliefs so that way they could find out why they believe what they believe instead of just believing it.