Another Poll to DU! (AOL - what do you think of Stark's comment?)

[npincus]

http://news.aol.com/

This one needs help.

What do you think of Stark's comment that the GOP sent soldiers to Iraq to die "for the president's amusement"?
Thumbs down 63%
Thumbs up 37%

Total Votes: 77,152
Note on Poll Results Poll results are not scientific and reflect the opinions of only those users who chose to participate. Poll results are not reflected in real time.

[mod mom]

1. Needs help 38% say UP!

[Devlzown]

10. Still at 38%

The other numbers are interesting

Republican reaction to the comments are

Genuine outrage:46%

Partisan politics:33%

Some of both:21%

[DesertRat]

2. Needs help! I also posted it here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2087701&mesg_id=2087701

[EV_Ares]

3. I gave it a thumbs up but I have noticed the AOL comments usually

do not go in our favor. I don't go over there or on AOL usually,does anyone know why that is. Their members seem to lean more conservative to me. Is that right?

[Burma Jones]

6. AOL is for people that do not know how to use a Computer

So, they may indeed be more ignorant, hence more conservative.....

[EV_Ares]

7. Ah, thanks, eom.

[bigscott]

18. i agree

if anyone mentions to me they are on AOL and they are over the age of 18, I assume their intelligence level is sub-par and assume they listen to Faux

[NEOhiodemocrat]

19. hey, that is me you are talking about

I am on AOL because of the retiree discount I can get, and no one has ever called me conservative! I am known as the nutty liberal in the family. But with two kids still in college and a retired husband I will take any discount I can get. Maybe you believe the 'economy is doing great' but I don't.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. I've noticed that tendency on AOL polls too

Note the picture of Pete Stark they used in that poll. They deliberately picked a shot to portray him as 'stark'-raving mad. A pox on AOL!

[Devlzown]

13. Their polls tend to be skewed right wing.

I don't know if it'd their user base or what, but I can see the same poll taken by Yahoo, for instance, and it will turn out quite differently.

[sallyseven]

21. No they pick and choose the numers. Their polls are fake.

[tsuki]

4. Done.

[otohara]

5. Done

w/ pleasure

[azmouse]

9. Done n/t

[Hersheygirl]

11. Done

with pleasure.

[CJCRANE]

12. The wording is stupid.

It should be "agree" or "disagree" not "thumbs up" or "thumbs down".

"Thumbs up" usually denotes cheerful or and enthusiastic agreement (which isn't appropriate in this case).

On edit: Done anyway, despite the wording.

[Froward69]

14. done

it has to be skewed... the next poll is about racism, almost no one is offended???

[EST]

15. AOL is very right wing-nutlery

Before anyone accuses me of tin-foil-hattery or partisan blindness, here is another poll from that site, further down the page:

Poll Results
Are you offended by James Watson's comments about blacks and intelligence?
No
65% 7,971
Yes
35% 4,215

Now you know what you're dealing with.

[liberal N proud]

16. The freepers really have a grip on that one.

[riona]

17. Done

It's infected with the creepy freepies.

[mitchtv]

20. done

Stark's comment that the GOP sent soldiers to Iraq to die "for the president's amusement"?
Thumbs down 62%
Thumbs up 38%

Total Votes: 101,785

[HowHasItComeToThis]

22. MAN, THE FASCISTS ARE OUT IN FORCE AT AOL

JUST REFLECTS THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE