OWS Polling

[Gipper]

Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd
In interviews, protesters show that they are leftists out of step with most American voters. Yet Democrats are embracing them anyway.

Yet the Occupy Wall Street movement reflects values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people—and particularly with swing voters who are largely independent and have been trending away from the president since the debate over health-care reform.

The protesters have a distinct ideology and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies. On Oct. 10 and 11, Arielle Alter Confino, a senior researcher at my polling firm, interviewed nearly 200 protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park. Our findings probably represent the first systematic random sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576637082965745362.html?KEYWORDS=douglas+schoen

As most thinking people knew all along, the OWS crowd are a bunch of ignorant radical leftists.

The article posted is authored by a Dem who worked for BJ Bubba. He recognizes how foolish the D party is for backing the radicals. I wonder why the Rs are not pounching of the Ds for backing these dumb radicals...

Just further proof how far left the D party has fallen...and the whacky left media likes to proclaim the R party is full of radical rightwingers, when in fact the Rs are mostly comprised of moderate progressives.

Is it any wonder liberals are uninformed?

 

[dogtowner]

As most thinking people knew all along, the OWS crowd are a bunch of ignorant radical leftists.

The article posted is authored by a Dem who worked for BJ Bubba. He recognizes how foolish the D party is for backing the radicals. I wonder why the Rs are not pounching of the Ds for backing these dumb radicals...

Just further proof how far left the D party has fallen...and the whacky left media likes to proclaim the R party is full of radical rightwingers, when in fact the Rs are mostly comprised of moderate progressives.

Is it any wonder liberals are uninformed?

Sometimes when someone seeks to hang themselves, the best thing is to feed them rope. Besides, why waste money on that now ? Save it till it matters.

 

[Openmind]

As most thinking people knew all along, the OWS crowd are a bunch of ignorant radical leftists.

The article posted is authored by a Dem who worked for BJ Bubba. He recognizes how foolish the D party is for backing the radicals. I wonder why the Rs are not pounching of the Ds for backing these dumb radicals...

Just further proof how far left the D party has fallen...and the whacky left media likes to proclaim the R party is full of radical rightwingers, when in fact the Rs are mostly comprised of moderate progressives.

Is it any wonder liberals are uninformed?

Talk about being "out of step" with the reality of the majority of American voters!

 

[Gipper]

Sometimes when someone seeks to hang themselves, the best thing is to feed them rope. Besides, why waste money on that now ? Save it till it matters.

Well maybe, but I think not. The Rs should be banging on BO and the Dems for their alliance with these OWS radicals. Most Americans know a left wing radical when they see one. And most do not want anything to do with them. Painting the D party and BO as the left wing radicals they are, will win votes.

If the Rs were smart and that is a big IF, since much of the party is controlled by progressives, they would be informing the American people that BO and the Ds are really just plain old commies.

This in the WSJ today...

President Obama is cozying up to the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, intending to make resentment of big business a central theme of his re-election campaign. Here he's following the lead of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who tried to convince the public that Wall Street was to blame for the double-dip recession that plagued his second administration.

President Obama is perfectly capable of resorting to antibusiness demagoguery. In his 2010 State of the Union he berated the Supreme Court for allegedly reversing "a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities."

And in one of his speeches last summer on debt reduction, the president singled out "corporate jet owners and oil companies" for allegedly unfair tax breaks, and he asked "how can we ask a student to pay more for college before we ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries?" We may hear more, much more in coming months, if the economy continues to flounder.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903327904576524753805400370.html?KEYWORDS=paul+moreno

BO intends to blame Wall Street and big business for his failures. All in an effort to get re-elected...since we know he can't run on his record of failure. Many on the left and maybe some others will buy this lie. But, I am betting most Americans are not that dumb.

 

[dogtowner]

Well maybe, but I think not. The Rs should be banging on BO and the Dems for their alliance with these OWS radicals. Most Americans know a left wing radical when they see one. And most do not want anything to do with them. Painting the D party and BO as the left wing radicals they are, will win votes.

If the Rs were smart and that is a big IF, since much of the party is controlled by progressives, they would be informing the American people that BO and the Ds are really just plain old commies.

This in the WSJ today...


BO intends to blame Wall Street and big business for his failures. All in an effort to get re-elected...since we know he can't run on his record of failure. Many on the left and maybe some others will buy this lie. But, I am betting most Americans are not that dumb.

Well they are taking measured steps (not that you would hear of it in the MSM) and maybe thats a valid way forward. You could make the case that its best to lay off the kids as America is unhappy with the overly cozy relationship pols have with special interests so let them rant about all their other nonsense and insure their own implosion. Oncw that is complete you can use bigger hammers on the pols who embraced them.

 

[Openmind]

Well they are taking measured steps (not that you would hear of it in the MSM) and maybe thats a valid way forward. You could make the case that its best to lay off the kids as America is unhappy with the overly cozy relationship pols have with special interests so let them rant about all their other nonsense and insure their own implosion. Oncw that is complete you can use bigger hammers on the pols who embraced them.

Just to put a little wrinkle in your "victory" dance:

New York cops defy order to arrest hundreds of ‘Occupy Albany’ protesters

By Andrew Jones
Monday, October 24, 2011

Occupy Albany protesters in New York’s capital city received an unexpected ally over the week: The state and local authorities.

According to the Albany Times Union, New York state troopers and Albany police did not adhere to a curfew crackdown on protesters urged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and Albany mayor Gerald Jennings.

Mass arrests seemed to be in the cards once Jennings directed officers to enforce the curfew on roughly 700 protesters occupying the city owned park. But as state police joined the local cops, moved past the property line dividing city and state land.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/24/new-york-cops-def...

 

[dogtowner]

Just to put a little wrinkle in your "victory" dance:

New York cops defy order to arrest hundreds of ‘Occupy Albany’ protesters

By Andrew Jones
Monday, October 24, 2011

Occupy Albany protesters in New York’s capital city received an unexpected ally over the week: The state and local authorities.

According to the Albany Times Union, New York state troopers and Albany police did not adhere to a curfew crackdown on protesters urged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and Albany mayor Gerald Jennings.

Mass arrests seemed to be in the cards once Jennings directed officers to enforce the curfew on roughly 700 protesters occupying the city owned park. But as state police joined the local cops, moved past the property line dividing city and state land.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/24/new-york-cops-def...

As Mayor Bloomberg pointed out, winter is coming. SOME dems have had enough sense to let the chilldren play knowing that things will take care of themselves.

 

[Openmind]

As Mayor Bloomberg pointed out, winter is coming. SOME dems have had enough sense to let the chilldren play knowing that things will take care of themselves.

Yes, dear. . .so Winter is coming. . .so maybe there won't be people camping in the parks. . .

But they will have organize so well, that they will be able to withstand less "visible" sites, taken advantage of the web's as a tool to disperse their message, and will be present, no more maybe "in the parks" of the US and around the world, but in the corporate board rooms, in the political office of senators and congressmen, and in many people's homes, all across the US.

I am actually really please that you have such low opinion of the ability of this movement to survive! This way. . .you won't bother with trying to destroy it!

 

[FatherTime]

Gipper, stay out of the propaganda mill, it's turning you into a parrot.