I lied on a Harris poll today

[eridani]

I said I approved of Obama's performance. Actually, I have quite a few criticisms of his performance, but the right wing noise machine would construe it as approval of the Repuke agenda, which I really don't want.

[RC]

1. I hate polls that have "Do you still beat your wife" type questions in them.

Very misleading.

[secondwind]

2. Aawww. I know how you feel, but in your heart of hearts, he's still THE MAN. We have no choice

but to stick with our President. He's been bombarded enough since Day One, we need to watch his back. :-)

[jefferson_dem]

3. Reality is...

This is about a choice between Obama/Dems and insane nutbaggery. Time to make a choice.

[mdmc]

4. way to team up

I do the same thing in real life..

[Scuba]

5. Remember, most polls are designed to shape opinion, not measure it. n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. Do you know the exact percentage which are designed to shape opinion, not measure it?

[Scuba]

11. With an unknown number of polls, impossible to determine.

I based my "most" on the many, many polls I have seen over the years.

[liberal N proud]

6. You are catching on

Or maybe you knew this all along.

I have been preaching this from months on this board, those who criticize the President when the Right is so full of hate for him are just feeding the monster.

I don't subscribe to the theory that we have to support him unconditionally but sometimes we have to look at the big picture and swallow our liberal pride and go with the flow or suffer the consequences.

[littlewolf]

7. This is why I don't trust polls ....

[DemocraticPilgrim]

8. Exactly, at election time read the question as a comparison after Nov. we enhance what we got.

[bigwillq]

9. I've done that, too

:)

[bvar22]

12. I do that in every public poll.

I give Obama and the Democrats the highest marks possible.
In private, and on DU, I am beyond disgusted with the "Centrist" 1/2 Republican administration
and its open contempt for FDR Democrats.

I would caution the Democratic Party Leadership NOT to take these polls as a MANDATE for Centrist Policy. I'm sure I'm not the only Liberal who is lying.

[Mimosa]

13. Same here. n/t