CNN Dobbs Poll: 96% Not adequately represented

[whatelseisnew]

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

Do you believe the officials you elected are adequately representing your views and interests?

4969 votes

[MissWaverly]

1. Thanks added my 2 cents

I do not believe that Congress is representing the will of the American people. Thanks for posting this link!

[0007]

2. The CNN poll

Do you believe the officials you elected are adequately representing your views and interests?
Yes
4%
176 votes

No
96%

4811 votes
Total: 4987 votes

[rocktivity]

5. How do you make it flash like that?

:shrug:
rocknation

[Maccagirl]

3. I agree that my Congresscritter does not represent me

So why is there STILL a 98% re-election rate???


GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

[gizmo1979]

13. What is the theory behind that?

Is it the devil you know versus the devil you don't.

[CatholicEdHead]

22. Gerrymandering

All Congressional districts.

[Selteri]

4. Represented how I want to be?

No, I don't think they represent anyone but themselves, their investors and their special interest groups who's asses they are sucking.

[flordehinojos]

6. i did not click on the link but i noticed that the poll comes from

CNN/LOU DOBBS.

The question, "Do you believe the officials you elected are adequately representing your views and interests" is too generic and Lou Dobbs can use and manipulate the results any way he wants to.

The question should have been:

a) Is your elected official a democrat or a republican?
check or click the appropriate answer.
O Democrat or 0 Republican

b) Do you believe that your elected official adequately represents your views".

Now that would have nailed down who is failing and who is not vis-avis a democrat or a republican.

The way Lou Dobbs has it (or it is reported in the post here) it is simply too generic and Lou Dobbs can attribute the negative answer to whoever (or is it whomever) he wants to.

[Selteri]

7. I have both and neither does their job, they just spout flotsam. N/T

[LibDemAlways]

8. Barbara Boxer represents me.

Feinstein does not. My Congresscritter is a vile repuke named Elton Gallegly who never met a chimp proposal he didn't like. He most definitely does not represent me, yet the idiot populice keeps re-electing him every time with over 60% of the vote.

[SW FL Dem]

9. I remember Elton

:puke: I also remember having some fun filling out the surveys he used to mail to his constituents :)

[LibDemAlways]

10. He doesn't send me the surveys anymore.

Last time I got one, I returned it "addressee unknown" and told him to take me off his mailing list. I almost scrawled what I think of him across it, but decided not to risk a visit from law enforcement!

[catzies]

11. I'm in Gallegly's district too. It's rumored he's retiring after 20 years

And we also have twin dipsticks in Strickland and McClintock. :puke:

[SW FL Dem]

12. I stopped getting his surveys before 9/11

I never wrote anything threatening, I just told him what I thought, usually in essay form on his check the box forms.

[Lost Texan in NC]

15. I used to live there

:smoke:

in SW FL, and back then, wasn't to impressed with the new congressman. Now I know why, He's CIA.

[SW FL Dem]

16. I think you are talking about Porter Goss from Ft Myers

I wasn't impresses either. My previous post was about another Rep, Elton Gallegly, from Southern California.

[Lost Texan in NC]

20. Shhhhhhh!

:smoke:

Don't say that name to loud, he might hear you. Don't want the wrath of the CIA coming down on us. After all this is George Bu$he$ America now. His constitution guarantees us the right to say whatever he thinks we should say. He has his minions listening.

[bklyncowgirl]

14. I'm a uniquely happy constituent

Lautenberg and Corzine are my Senators and Rush Holt is my Congressman. For the most part all pretty good as far as I'm concerned.

[BamaLefty]

17. NO!!!

My Congressman is a complete RW nutjob! Idiot in fact.



Yes


4%

202 votes
No


96%

5244 votes
Total: 5446 votes

[napi21]

18. What do the Pubs say about Lou Dobbs?

I know he's a Pub, but he's really one of the good guys...the real Pubs from a long time ago who really bbelieved in smaller taxes, Capitalism with restraint, lower taxes, but everything for the best interest of the Country. Seems like most of those Pubs are gone, on in hiding somewhere.

I won't visit Freeperland, cause my blood pressure can't handle it, but do any on them even watch Lou anymore?

Someone makes up that 94%. Can I at least hope there are some honest, moderate Pubs left?

[adigal]

19. Related - because anyone who voted for the Bankruptcy

bill does not represent me - I sent my first credit card offer back today - stuffed with lots and lots of extra paper, since it is postage paid, with a BIG NOTE across the front of the application "NEVER - thanks for the new bankruptcy bill!!!"

If we ALL did this, they would stop mailing offers out to us.

[rfkrfk]

21. three Senators voted in the Schiavo matter, 96% is about right n/t

[Discord]

23. At 96% with 5632 votes.