Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Daily Kos: State of the Nation:

Just got this note from Del Ali, president of polling firm Research 2000:

We have received two threatening phone calls in the past hour. Interestingly enough, both calls conclude that both you and I are terrorists promoting a gay and of course ant-American agenda.

Got it? Polling Republicans and asking them what they think, then jotting down their answers, promotes terrorism, gays, and an anti-American agenda. It's fun being a wingnut!

Earlier post: What the GOP Believes When It's At Home

Consider The 2010 Comprehensive Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll of Self-Identified Republicans paid for by Daily Kos and conducted by Research 2000.

In reading these quite horrifying numbers, I think it's important to note that recent polls suggest that the ratio of self-identified Republicans is at a low ebb: maybe as low as 20%

So when you read that 63% of respondents think President Obama — who often looks like a Rockefeller Republican to me — is a socialist, that could be as low as 14% of the voting population as a whole.

But as Kos notes, these numbers matter because they set the tone for the obstructionism of the elected officials in the GOP — they have to survive primaries in which these folks are the ones most likely to vote.

So, a majority of the resondents either agreed with or were not sure about each of the following statetments:

• Obama was born abroad
• Obama 'wants the terrorists to win'
• Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama
• ACORN stole the 2008 election
• Barack Obama is a racist who hates White people

Only a large minority, though, would go along with this:

Do you believe your state should secede from the United States

Yes 23
No 58
Not Sure 19

Some patriots.