Who Ought Not Be President?

[BurtWorm]

Poll question: Who Ought Not Be President?

Which do you believe most right now?

[Taurus]

1. George Dubya Bush

Of course.

[BurtWorm]

3. You'd think people at DU could keep that in their heads.

Evidently not.

:thumbsdown:

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Dumb Question

Sorry.

[BurtWorm]

6. Wonder who you voted for.

;)

[Jack_Dawson]

36. I didn't vote

It was that dumb.

Of course Bush and Lieberman shouldn't be president - I don't get it. And believe me I like taking polls.

[wryter2000]

4. Those six

The six who said Clark and Dean ought to be ashamed of themselves.

[blm]

5. Silly.

Bush is a given. This is worthless as a poll.

[BurtWorm]

8. Apparently not. There seems to be a conflict of opinion.

[iowapeacechief]

27. Not really. You asked two contradictory questions.

"Who Ought Not Be President?"

OR

"Which do you believe most right now?"

Don't blame people who failed to read it the way you meant it. Or tried to make sense of it and guessed wrong. It was poorly done, that's all.

[mmm]

25. Very interesting poll

[iowapeacechief]

7. What is the poll question?

"Who Ought Not Be President?"

OR

"Which do you believe most right now?"

Can't be both.

[BurtWorm]

10. For very many people of all different campaigns in the Democratic Party

one answer leaps out immediately for both questions. Apparently this is not true of all Democratic candidates' supporters.

[iowapeacechief]

15. That's pretty sick

What's your point?

[LuminousX]

9. As of this moment, there are 9 misguided folk

Bush is the only answer suitable.

[maddezmom]

11. Bush

[Padraig18]

12. There's the 'spite vote' crowd!

Slamming Dean or Lieberman or Clark is more important than dealing with reality...:eyes:

[BurtWorm]

14. That was the point of the poll.

To out the spite vote.

[Padraig18]

16. Yeah.

pretty sad...

[iowapeacechief]

17. No, it was merely absurd

Your two questions taken together are contradictory.

[BurtWorm]

21. Not for the majority who've voted.

Are you telling me that given a choice between the Bushists and ANYone else over who ought not be president you have to think about it?!

[ryharrin]

29. The "who do you believe the most right now" question

was rather poorly worded, but I took it to mean "who do you believe would be the worst president right, in you opinion?"

[BurtWorm]

34. It was "which do you believe most right now?"

And it may be poorly worded, but you got it, and I think most people did.

[iowapeacechief]

35. Worse

If that's what it meant, it's worse than poorly worded.

[wryter2000]

19. Thanks, BurtWorm

I thought your question was weird. Now I see the point. Seriously, anyone who voted for anyone besides BushCo needs to think seriously about their priorities.

[iowapeacechief]

23. And the correct answer is Bush?

"Which do you believe most right now?"

[BurtWorm]

26. What do you think?

Far be it from me to tell anyone how to think. I'm just trying to lead some horses to water.

[goodhue]

37. I don't believe Bush!

He lies.

[BurtWorm]

43. By the way, amateur grammarians:

"Which" is for objects, "whom" is for people. From the context, it's clear that the question "Which do you believe most right now?" cannot refer to a person. It must therefore refer to the choices for the question, "Who ought not be president?"

(And while we're on the grammar lesson, it's Democratic Party!)

[redqueen]

13. I would have thought this was a no-brainer

Geez Louise. I hope those are interlopers voting Dean!

[mb7588a]

18. difficult without being able to vote 3 times :P nt

[quinnox]

20. Needs to be multiple choice

I have more than one answer.

[leftbend]

22. Wow that hurts

To see people on DU voting for someone except bush,it just seems so wrong. Demos for bush??

[kayleybeth]

24. *bush

I'm disappointed that anyone on DU would choose otherwise. None of our candidates are perfect, but any one of them would be better than Smirk and Co.

[lcordero]

28. Which one isn't a Republican?

[ryharrin]

31. Dean and Clark.

And if I'm in a good mood, Lieberman.

[BurtWorm]

33. Why, because the one who isn't a Republican

ought not be president? ;)

[lcordero]

38. All four choices are Republicans

I can't split a negative vote in between four choices can I?

[BurtWorm]

40. Th'art more left than I if thou canst delineate them.

Here's to ideological purity!

:toast:

[lcordero]

45. this is the problem

I asked myself these questions:
Who is a "free" trader, an insider and a corporate wh0r3?
Who is an occupationist?
Who is part of the military-industrial complex?
Who wants to limit my civil liberties and rights?

All four questions have the same answer and that's "all of the above".

On edit: so all of the above do have any of the values that I feel are important no matter how much lip service they give them.

[lcordero]

51. scuse me

all of the above DON'T have any of the values that I feel are important no matter how much lip service they give those values.

[ThirdWheelLegend]

52. "how much lip service they give those values."

Agreed, rhetoric is just that.

There is no 'all of the above' choice so I could not vote.

TWL

[iowapeacechief]

30. You asked two contradictory questions.

"Who Ought Not Be President?"

OR

"Which do you believe most right now?"

Don't blame people who failed to read it the way you meant it. Or tried to make sense of it and guessed wrong. It was poorly done, that's all.

[incapsulated]

32. Unfortunately

You can vote annonymously.

But I have my suspicions...

[damnraddem]

39. Dubya, of course, is not president, as well as ought not be.

But to me, having Bush-lite Lieberman elected as a so-called Democrat would be even-more demoralizing.

[rucky]

41. 38% of this Forum Has Gone Completely Insane

n/t

[iowapeacechief]

42. Actually, only this poll is insane...

...and you could make yourself crazy trying to figure it out. Don't bother.

[BurtWorm]

44. See the grammar lesson above. (#43)

That might help ya. :hi:

[goodhue]

46. Which do you believe most right now?

Poll is unfair. I believe Dennis Kucinich because he speaks the truth. Why is my vote being disenfranchised? I don't believe any of those guys you listed and none of them ought not to not be president.

[BurtWorm]

47. If I'd said "Whom do you believe" you'd have a case.

"Which" doesn't refer to people. In this case it refers to the choices in the poll. That's obviuous to most people voting, I think, or I might have to take into account a portion who don't understand English grammar.

[goodhue]

48. which people

do you mean?
the ones who ought not be president?
or the ones WHOM you believe?

[iowapeacechief]

50. Hice try. Sorry...

your questions weren't clear at all, and your cover-up is sad. Where would you be without Grammarian's assist? Nice try! Just give it up.

[SeattleRob]

49. What have we come to?

I cannot believe that DUer's voted for others Beside Bush and Dick..

:(