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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 02:51 PM
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Poll question: Generally speaking do voters want to be told the truth or what they want to hear?
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 02:52 PM
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1. I can't speak for others - who knows? - but I want the truth. nt
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:03 PM
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9. Ditto
Same here, I want the complete unvarnished truth.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 02:52 PM
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2. Trick question for most people here.
Edited on Fri Oct-26-07 02:57 PM by BuyingThyme
But the latter for most of America.

ON EDIT: I hope this poll turns out the way I want.
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 02:52 PM
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3. Can't the truth be what I want to hear? nt
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:07 PM
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10. It can be. But generally the people who want to hear what they want to hear...
...could care less what the truth is. Thats been my experience.

Don
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MethuenProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 02:56 PM
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4. Me: Truth. Them: Only what they want to hear.
And I'm sure 'they' would say the same thing. :shrug:
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 02:57 PM
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5. Democrats = truth; Republicans = what they're supposed to hear.
GOPers don't know how to think for themselves, they've been programmed to believe whatever Rush or Bill has told them they should believe this week.

Republicans = Pathetic.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 02:58 PM
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6. The truth.
When lives depend on it, the truth. That's most people.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 02:59 PM
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7. People want to be told
what will reinforce their version of reality. They get pissed off when the truth interfers with that. They say they want the truth but they really just want to hear what they want to hear.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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Va Lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:08 PM
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12. Well said
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:09 PM
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13. Yes it was n/t
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:03 PM
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8. What do successul politicians do? Do they tell the truth or do they tell people what they
want to hear?

I think it's pretty obvious.
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dkofos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:08 PM
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11. Most people can't distinguish truth from political bullshit!!
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:10 PM
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14. 1984 Presidential election: Mondale told us the truth; Reagan told us what we wanted to hear.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:10 PM
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15. How else would Hillary be winning
What they want to hear. The way vast majority don't want to deal with the difficulty of the issues, they just want a pat on the head and to be on the team that makes them feel morally superior. That's it.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:14 PM
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16. If thats the case I hope she keeps telling them what they want to hear all the way into the W. House
I really wish it didn't have to be that way though.

Don
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:27 PM
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17. Better than any Republican
At least there would be that.
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