http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/Carville-Outlook-Bleak-Democrats/2010/04/02/id/354625

Here is an interesting article that is somewhat interesting for the content…but even more interesting is the end result.

First off, I can’t figure out why it takes three major firms to conduct a simple, unscientific, survey of a mere 1,000 people. My kid could probably text 1,000 people during his lunch break, and probably find more valuable information. Involved in this survey was James Carville’s Democracy Corps, Tulane University, and Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner “Research”. Just so we know who these groups are, I offer the following:

** James Carville – From Wikipedia: “(born October 25, 1944) is an American political consultant, commentator, actor, attorney, media personality, and prominent liberal pundit”.

** Tulane University – Located in New Orleans and bill itself as a “Research Institution”.

** Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner Research – Located in Washington DC, and from their website, under “Philosophy”: Committed to progressive goals, ideas, and leaders.

What we have is three major companies involved in a tiny sampling of 1,000 voters. We don’t know from where the respondents were selected, or anything about the sampling method, or questions asked, using what terminology. Reading and understanding polls is a whole separate blog, that I may do someday, when I am really bored, and feel like really boring my readers. Let’s just leave it at this: Three highly liberal organizations conducted the survey.

What they found absolutely astonished them:

“When asked as a forced choice,” Carville’s poll says, “voters overwhelmingly pick spending cuts over tax increases as the most effective way to reduce the deficit (71 to 18 percent).”

and this nugget of amazement:

“It also discovered that “voters are wary of raising taxes, even if the revenue raised goes to something they deem important, like paying down the deficit.” “Important” is an understatement: a momentous majority – more than nine in 10 voters – considered the budget deficit “either a crisis or a major problem.”

The shock and awe continued:

“Carville and Greenberg believe the message of the President and congressional candidates can be adjusted to improve Democrats’ electoral chances; their own poll suggests the problem is policies – specifically unprecedented spending and taxes.”

So my question is how much did this poll cost? Who paid for it? Were they, the customer, satisfied with the results?

Mr. Customer: I bet you paid a couple of million dollars to conduct this survey…I will do it myself next weekend for, say, ohhhhh….1/2 that.

When you pay a left-leaning “progressive” firm to find out results, and they come back with the Tea Party’s platform…does that make you wonder?