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Important Poll results

Mr Basil Fawlty
09-09-2004, 00:30
40 percent of parents who dislike 30 percent of their children prefer George W. Bush.





60 percent of households that fly flags think America can do no wrong 26 percent of the time.





70 percent of women who think Mr. Bush is more likeable than their husbands prefer John Kerry.





52 percent of people with wall-to-wall carpeting dislike Mr. Bush's plan for redecorating Iraq.





98 percent of people who are hearing-impaired like 50 percent of what they hear from Mr. Bush.





100 percent of Spanish-American War veterans are dead.





98 percent of World War I veterans can't remember the name of either candidate. Both prefer Coolidge.





43 percent of women think Mr. Bush has more presidential hair. 26 percent think John Edwards has more vice presidential hair. 47 percent think Mr. Edwards has more presidential hair and 26 percent think Mr. Kerry has more vice presidential hair. 92 percent think Dick Cheney has no hair. 73 percent think Mr. Bush's hair is irrelevant. 54 percent think Mr. Bush is irrelevant.





76 percent of women think Teresa Heinz Kerry colors her hair. 53 percent of those women would prefer a different color. 42 percent would prefer a different first lady.

One-half of all Jewish mothers like one-half of Mr. Kerry.





63 percent of single women over 50 think John Kerry is too tall for his own good. 71 percent of divorced women say George Bush would be an ideal ex-husband.





Before the Republican convention, 86 percent of the population thought Zell Miller was a professional golfer. After the convention, 92 percent of the population would not like to be in his foursome.





50 percent of the electorate think that polls are misleading, inaccurate and inconclusive. The other 50 percent agree 30 percent of the time with 40 percent of the results.
Trotterstan
09-09-2004, 00:46
Seventy per cent of Americans cannot name their senators or their congressman. Forty-nine per cent believe that the President has the power to suspend the Constitution. Only about thirty per cent name an issue when they explain why they voted the way they did, and only a fifth hold consistent opinions on issues over time. Rephrasing poll questions reveals that many people don't understand the issues that they have just offered an opinion on. According to polls conducted in 1987 and 1989, for example, between twenty and twenty-five per cent of the public thinks that too little is being spent on welfare, and between sixty-three and sixty-five per cent feels that too little is being spent on assistance to the poor.

And voters apparently do punish politicians for acts of God. In a paper written in 2004, the Princeton political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels estimate that "2.8 million people voted against Al Gore in 2000 because their states were too dry or too wet" as a consequence of that year's weather patterns. Achen and Bartels think that these voters cost Gore seven states, any one of which would have given him the election …
now thats scary
Romaniaa
09-09-2004, 00:49
This is very very VERY funny!!! :)
Superpower07
09-09-2004, 00:56
Roflmfao
Kleptonis
09-09-2004, 01:18
Thats hilarious!

Something else thats kind of weird: Someone once told me they voted for Bush Sr. to be reelected because she thought it was funny that Barbara Bush kicked their dog on national TV.
Alinania
09-09-2004, 21:26
40 percent of parents who dislike 30 percent of their children prefer George W. Bush.
...so that's... exactly how many parents are there who have 3 (/6/9) children and dislike exactly 1 (/2/3) of them.
and of that impressive crowd only 40% prefer bush?
he better start making more parents hate 1/3 of their kids or he's going to lose that election ;)
Katganistan
09-09-2004, 22:04
"There are lies, there are DAMNED lies, and then there are statistics."

:D
Partiavania
09-09-2004, 22:12
76 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot...
lol
Peaonusahl
09-09-2004, 22:12
This doesn't make me laugh. It makes me want to cry.
Of the council of clan
09-09-2004, 22:17
76 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot...
lol


and 120% of those are TRUE
Ellbownia
09-09-2004, 23:30
100 % of politicians lie 100% of the time, except when it can be proven within a reasonable doubt by:

a. Your own eyes
b. An extremely reliable source's eyes
Fmjphoenix
09-09-2004, 23:40
100 % of politicians lie 100% of the time, except when it can be proven within a reasonable doubt by:

a. Your own eyes
b. An extremely reliable source's eyes

That is all too true. You can't really believe a word a politicion is saying because even if he is telling you true stuff, he isnt telling you the whole truth.
Copiosa Scotia
09-09-2004, 23:50
Wow. These may actually be more reputable than the statistics MKULTRA makes up.
Reltaran
10-09-2004, 00:45
"50 percent of the electorate think that polls are misleading, inaccurate and inconclusive. The other 50 percent agree 30 percent of the time with 40 percent of the results."

Saved the best for last, eh? :D