Poll: I Would Like To Continue To Receive Political News... Good Or Bad... Or...

[WillyT]

I Would Rather Not Be Exposed To Information That I Don't Want To Hear

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	I Would Like To Continue To Receive Political News... Good Or Bad...
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	I Would Rather Not Be Exposed To Information That I Don't Want To Hear
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	I Have No Idea What 'Other' Would Mean Hear... Please Inform
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[Historic NY]

1. In the old days we got more news now its more bickering...

and wars. Use to be you could come for the up to the minute stuff, now fuhgeddaboudit.

[WillyT]

3. That's What I'm Afraid Of...

[CFLDem]

2. Wait, what???

[WillyT]

4. I Want To Know What's Going On...

Example: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024713721

And I do not want such threads looked at as toxic to DU...

We're better that that.

[flying rabbit]

6. I like to think we are. nt

[CFLDem]

9. Gotcha

[PowerToThePeople]

5. I am on SO many email lists...

I need to clean house. 1000s of emails stacked up from every liberal blog/site/political groups. At least a dozen a day. Most want donations too.

During the election cycle I actually paid attention to them, but not so much any more...

[Raine1967]

7. Please verify if you are speaking of these options:

1) DU: GD

2) The general media.

3) DU:LBN

4) Generally. I'd like to discuss things that matter, in general.

(I admit, I am not voting. The options I gave were the first few things I though after I read the options. I can handle bad political news. I didn't understand the result you wanted from the second part of the question you made the poll is made of.)

Seems strange to me. I don't answer phone calls with that kinda polling framework myself.

[Chan790]

8. I generally go out of my way to not be informed of the news and current events.

I'm not kidding. The amount of actual news information hasn't increased in a century but as the amount of coverage space has increased, so has manufactured news-content to fill that space.

If it doesn't warrant a mention in the Hartford Courant, I don't need to know about it.

[grasswire]

10. thank you, Willy

I always read your contributions.

[progree]

11. Sadly, too many want to live in a fairytale DU bubble-verse

This is one such conversation I had back in the fall 2012 campaign season:

but what brings me down is when I come across a post that quotes a negative poll. Is it really in our best interests to know about these downer polls?

For some people, realizing that its going to be a close race galvanizes them to work harder and contribute more. Myself, I was getting complacent when Obama was way up before the first debate, and his projected electoral vote count in all the maps was over 300 (vs. Romney below 200). Now that just about all the electoral vote maps I see (I look at about 4 of them) have like a 40 point difference (fortunately still in favor of Obama), I am far from complacent.

Actually, I was not all that complacent -- I think the righties seem more energized -- whenever I argue with righties on comments to articles like at news.yahoo.com, I am sometimes the only leftie, especially on articles about the economy. (Not that I try to change righties' minds, but I can't leave endless rightie lies trashing the Obama economy unanswered for those who might be undecided or persuadable to read). I wonder where are my fellow progressives? Endlessly posting away to each other in our safe havens or in our circular firing squads? Thumping our chests about our big DU post counts? How is that going to win any elections?

I'm not the only person that thinks some bad news (if its from a reputable source) is a good thing -- I've recently gotten email from both Moveon.org and USAction/True Majority alerting us to the bad polling news as a way to encourage us to give a little more and phone bank some more. And more importantly, to let us know what is going on, not what we wish was going on.

For me, they're real mood changers. And I don't mean good.

Sometimes life just sucks. If you don't like those posts, don't read them. Myself, I like to know about a leaky roof before there is serious structural damage. I can think of countless institutional failures I've read about where the root cause was decision-makers surrounding themselves only with yes men and good news people and shooting the bad news messengers (Lehman Bros, Enron, ... practically every company that has failed involved CEOs that avoided coming to grips with reality until too late)

Some of us believe we should get out of our little DU safe haven and engage with persuadables and righties on mixed message boards. If we're only getting comforting feel-good news here, we are going to be ill-prepared and taken by surprise when we engage in discussions with people out in the big bad world.

I'm just wondering what a "safe poll" to post is, without a bunch of ankle-biters accusing one of being a troll. Is the safe margin Obama +3? Or is that too close. How about +5? Does that slowly shift with what's happening in the real world, or is it something that is fixed in concrete? As a "newbie" I don't know what is safe or offensive.

I come here to get informed, not to be fed bubbly-boo.