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Related: About this forumRon Paul says majority of Americans favors gold standard
... We'll leave the policy debate to others. What we're fact-checking is whether theres as much public support for the idea as Paul claimed ...
So Paul is correct on the number -- but way off on the description. This was not a "national poll" that shows that a "majority of the American people believe we should have a gold standard." Instead, it was three polls in three states, with respondents from only one party -- and even among this narrow sample, it only asked those who are active enough politically to be considered likely to participate in the upcoming primary. The survey was also commissioned by a group that supports the gold standard ...
Rasmussen found that 44 percent of likely voters had a favorable impression of returning the U.S. monetary system to the gold standard, or, broken down, 15 percent very favorable and 29 percent somewhat favorable.
Thats closer to the majority mark, but its worth noting a few qualifiers. Among pollsters, Rasmussen, which describes itself as nonpartisan, has a reputation of producing polls that skew Republican. In addition, this poll was of likely voters, which uses a smaller pool of respondents than the default method, which is to poll all registered voters ...
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/jan/04/ron-paul/ron-paul-says-majority-americans-favors-gold-stand/
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KOfan
(87 posts)Anything he says is idiotic. Next
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kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)to be the law of the land, and not the Constitution, and who have wet dreams of bringing back stonings.
Individualism
(33 posts)controlled by international bankers.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I'd say that statement still holds--pardon my pun--currency!
superstring1
(29 posts)Most probably think gold is OK, like the gold in their wedding ring or some pin they have. Nobody is against their own jewelry or family trinkets. That's fairly standard, isn't it?