in all sincerity, if you are someone who is considering diving into poll numbers: do not, it will break something inside of you, we were not meant to know these things about our fellow human beings
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The most cynical person I've ever met was a pollster/focus group consultant who'd spent his career having 5+ minute conversations with the average voter.
You should read Converse's 1964 "Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics." You may have to go to an academic library to find a copy, but it's easily available. You are learning with the founders learned; they hoped they would create a republic governed by far-seeing people who considered the common
good. Instead, they got a democracy where local and private interests dominated. They died embittered. (The book to read on this is Gordon Wood's, *The Radicalism of the American Revolution.) But "People worship’s not a bad religion once you get it through your head that your god-object’s got
It’s also something that I think is a pretty luxurious thing to weigh and consider when you have other problems in life. Desperation in American life doesn’t leave much space for reflection
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Both are problematic.
It's from this excellent article, but it is http and your browser is going to say 'insecure' so I copied the pic if you don't fancy it.
http://datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html