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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Social Security is #1

I got an email today from Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee Chairman (don't ask me how I got on their mailing list...let's just say that the RNC is clearly better at spam than the DNC) that contained the following nugget of information:
"The latest Gallup poll shows that Americans think Social Security is now the most important domestic issue. At 12%, Social Security has increased by 8% since January and is a greater concern than the economy (10%), health care (9%), or terrorism(9%). "
Seriously? Changing Social Security which is widely expected to be solvent until at least 2042-2052 is our most important domestic issue? WTF? What happened to our fear of a terrorist attack (and our fancy color coded alert scale that went with it)? What about feeding the poor and housing the homeless? What about education and health care? Sigh.

posted by Jamie at 12:15 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger Jamie said...

Thanks for pointing out the other poll. I totally buy that they're using stats that are specifically cooked to support their position. Note that in their numbers 12% Social Security + 10% Economy + 9% Health Care + 9% Terrorism only represents 40% of the total vote. What did the other 60% of the people vote for? How were the categories broken down? Of course the fact that they're using screwy numbers only makes it all the more enraging.

2:06 PM

 

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