rssPoll: Sarah Palin, Choice of the Limbaugh Listener
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 8:51 am
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Mark this Washington Post poll as one of the less surprising surveys of the Republican Party this year. Only 18 percent of self-identified Republicans call Sarah Palin the national figure who most represents their values.
Among those who regularly listen to Limbaugh, however, Palin was cited by 48 percent, and among Beck’s viewers, it was 35 percent, far surpassing others.
I say it’s not a surprise because Palin has courted fans of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, appearing on their shows in the run-up to her book tour. The Limbaugh and Beck versions of the anti-Obama argument are actually somewhat different — if you had to summarize them, Limbaugh sees Obama as the latest Democratic socialist president, while Beck sees him as the culmination of 100 years of Communist planning to destroy the fabric of American life. So it makes sense that Limbaugh’s hard partisan fans like Palin more than Beck’s trust-no-one fans.
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Comment posted November 30, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
“Beck’s [purity of essence] fans.”
Has more of a ring of truthiness to it.
Comment posted December 1, 2009 @ 12:27 am
Interesting that a segment of American society prefers to elect leaders who are illiterate and therefore have no familiarity with the U.S. Constitution.
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Comment posted December 5, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
Interesting distinction, I guess, but kinda like explaining that although all bugs may look alike to the untrained eye actually they have different values and aspirations: I say squish 'em all with a size 16 Doc Marten and let their evil deity sort 'em out for the insect afterlife…
Comment posted December 9, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
They're the same segment who believe that “The Bible” supersedes the U.S. Constitution, and therefore have never even taken a look at the latter.
Comment posted December 13, 2009 @ 5:59 am
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Comment posted December 13, 2009 @ 10:59 am
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Never vote for a Republican.
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