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Interesting poll finding o' the day

Monday, January 18, 2010
From Zogby.  Speaks for itself:

"Opinions run strongly regarding affirmative action, with 64% agreeing it rewards some groups at the expense of others. Twenty-one percent agree affirmative action levels the playing field, and 9% said it does neither.  Fewer than half of African-Americans (47%) said it levels the playing field, 28% said it rewards some groups over others and 22% said it does neither".

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Survey finding o' the afternoon

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
From Pew Global, asking the all important question: "Would you prefer to live in a place with more McDonald's or more Starbucks?"

Admittedly it was our American friends that were asked this rather than us, but the results are in, and MickeyDs wins 43/35, with 22% preferring neither or not caring. Men go strongly for McDonalds (46/30), and the ladies margninally so (41/40). Hispanics prefer Starbucks (39/38) and black and white Americans for the Golden Arches.

Conservatives opt for McDonalds by the broadest margin (50/28) and Liberals flip the other way (46/33).

More here, presuming it is legible.

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Being a Democrat makes you miserable

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Or at least more so than being a Republican, and this has held true since at least 1972, according to some findings by Pew Global. Alternatively, the miserable flock to the donkey party.

And here are the figures:

And the 'very happy' from '72:


Note that Dems do not even perk up when one of their lot is in power, with the Clinton years driving them to valium, the bottle or whatever.

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