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In reply to the discussion: Have we forgotten the NSA or do people just not give a flying fuck anymore? [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)But I've come to learn that polls are only as good as the variables they choose to use and they can be interpreted any which way the pollster wants.
For example, polls - according to Teapublicans and Republicans - consistently show that the majority of Americans dislike ObamaCare. That number includes, of course, Teabaggers who hate anything and everything this black Democrat in the WH does, and Liberals who don't care for the PPACA because it didn't go far enough. Two opposing ideologies with completely different reasons for disliking the PPACA, but that's not what's being reported. It's being touted as a total dislike of the PPACA in an attempt to attack this president's signature achievement in support of ProfitCare.
As I've explained before, ask the same question to the same people only replace the NSA with any governmental or commercial conglomerate we know and who collect our information (DMV, Verizon, IRS, AT&T, credit reporting agencies, etc.), and you'll get the same result.
My conclusion? It's a tempest in a teapot.