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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 10:58 AM Original message |
Americans Would Pick Reagan Over FDR |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
1. The product of corporate media brainwashing and the power of top down, one way |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
19. I agree with you, Uncle Joe. There are too many people brain-washed by the |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
2. I think RR's popularity will wane with passing generations. |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
3. Just a web poll. Not scientific. NT |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Why do you say it's a web poll? According to the article it isn't |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
44. OK. |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
4. They'd pick the guy who helped create "these trying times" we're in. Wonderful. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:28 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Yep. Idiocracy. (nt) |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
5. Good! With The Gipper in charge, we could go after the real terrorists! |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
6. Well, a lot of the brain-dead who voted for Reagan are still alive... |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
26. So would a lot of Xers whose parents were able to capitalize on development |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
8. Jeez, if this doesn't make you stop and pause in horror for a moment, you aren't paying attention. |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
9. Then Americans are stupid. |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
11. now that is scary...Reagan was a doddering old simpleton who made being dumb and selfish respectable |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
12. H.L. Mencken was right. |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:51 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Groucho Marx was right also. |
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cordelia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
13. I have never understood |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:07 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. because after reagan's death |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. I was in a coma when he died.... |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
15. just shows we got a lot of plebes |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
16. They would choose the guy who started this mess.......the brain dead... . |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:42 PM Response to Reply #16 |
24. Ironic, no? |
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laundry_queen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
17. To be fair |
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Huey P. Long (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. My assesment as well. FDR? Who's that? Flower deliverer? -eom |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:42 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. You could have a point there. |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:02 PM Response to Reply #17 |
27. Exactly |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:17 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Parents who don't teach their children history are failing them. |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:22 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Some parents who do teach their children history |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:33 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. Yes, some fail in that way as well. |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:46 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. I wonder what the comparison between Reagan and JFK |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
22. come now ... you expect the American population to pick a slick, well-polished Hollywood actor |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
23. My teapublican neighbor would. He says reagan was the greatest prez we ever had |
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libertypirate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
28. Only because brain washing (marketing) works, and |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
30. Americans are stupid. |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
31. A 36% PLURALITY would pick Reagan |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
32. For the same reason that more Americans will self-identify in polls as conservative than liberal, |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:26 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. Yep. That's a VERY good point. As I recall |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
34. Is anyone surprised that Americans' grasp of history is influenced by RW teevee and radio? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. if you asked people old enough to remember FDR, it would be no contest. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:32 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. I would hope so. But I really think it has more to do with the incessant |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 03:05 PM Response to Reply #40 |
47. if you removed identifying information and asked them to pick based solely on their record.... |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #34 |
43. Is it too much to expect people to read, though? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 02:31 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. I think that's too much to hope for. |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
38. IT'S ONLY A PLURALITY! And it's the same plurality |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
39. The Reagan Revolution - according to Mike Huckabee - a short 1 1/2 min. video |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
42. A nation of dumbasses |
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