Propaganda works: Gallup poll, Reagan greatest President

[upi402]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/02/reagan-tops-gallups-greatest-president-poll-clinton-is-third/1

"Respondents in a new Gallup Poll this Presidents Day have tapped Ronald Reagan as the nation's greatest chief executive, ahead of Abraham Lincoln"
-USA Today
David Jackson

[ladjf]

1. How could people possibly be that dumb?

[alp227]

9. Daily Mirror after the 2004 election: ""How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?"

(that was pressed before the real results...Bush ended up with 62 million votes)

[underpants]

2. Funny CNN reported that their online poll had Clinton 1 and Obama 2 - no mention of Ronnie

Ronnie didn't make the top 5

Clinton
Obama
Teddy Roosevelt
JFK
Washington

[fascisthunter]

3. yeah.... and I call Bullshit on that poll

[andym]

4. He only got 19%, so it's quite believable

It explains a lot about what is happening now in our country.

Ironic that the corporations don't really even need Citizen's United when there are so many deluded people in the country.

[Quixote1818]

7. These kinds of polls are worthless. If you can win with 19% of the vote

then who cares.

[housewolf]

5. What short memories we have, and how ill-informed of history

and how partisan we are .... that's what this poll really shows

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. A poll is only as good as the people who write the questions.

Gallup will accept parameters handed them by others and administer the poll, the nuts and bolts of it, but if it is a biased poll it will still have the imprimatur of 'Gallup' - no matter that they did nothing to ensure it did not have leading questions or was slanted to particular results.

I stopped trusting anything Gallup put up ten years ago.

[upi402]

8. True. And that hasn't stopped the media from citing it

:puke: :eyes: :mad: