As poll numbers tumble, Democrats shooting the messenger in record numbers (McCain, Congressmen)

[Little-Acorn]

An excellent summary of recent Democrat tactics.

Republicans have taken a drubbing in recent national elections, and their response has been to re-evaluate their policies and attitudes. Whether they will actually change any of those policies, such as becoming more conservative and/or fiscally responsible, remains to be seen.

But Democrats, faced with poll number falling like flies and a few local elections with ominous results, have chosen a different response: The people taking the polls are at fault, and must be destroyed.

It's similar to their response to actual critics: People asking awkward questions during campaign stops (see Joe the Plumber, etc.) must be vilified and destroyed. People attending Tea Parties who refuse to shut up must be vilified and destroyed. People who dare to run against their chosen idols (see McCain, Palin, most Republican congressmen up for election etc.) must be vilified and destroyed. People who trick Democrat organizations into revealing their criminal activities and mindset (see ACORN videotapers), must be vilified and destroyed.

Now, when a pollster asks people questions and the people return a response Democrats don't like, the response is apparently the same: The people taking the poll are at fault, and must be vilified and destroyed.

It's an interesting way to produce a unanimous vote: destroy anyone who disagrees. Attila the Hun used this technique to great effect, as did the KGB in more recent days. And in the U.S., the Democrat party seems to be adopting it as their solution du jour.

Is this the "Change" they promised us?

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from Opinion & Commentary - Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com

It's All Rasmussen's Fault

Look, a messenger! Somebody shoot him!

by John Fund

Confronted with their gloomy poll numbers, Democrats have decided the solution is to discredit the pollsters they blame for dragging down their standing with the public. Politico.com reports that the No. 1 target is the proprietor of Rasmussen Reports, source of widely reported polls tracking the declining popularity of President Obama and his legislative initiatives.


(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)

[ovcatto]

Just a little reminder. In 2004 Bush's approval rating hovered between 50 and 45 percent. The Democrats won't be running against polls.

[Little-Acorn]

Third-world countries are also big on these tactics of destruction of their opponents. That is ewhat the Democrats are pushing us closer too, the more they employ those methods themselves.

[Smash255]

Originally Posted by Little-Acorn

Third-world countries are also big on these tactics of destruction of their opponents. That is ewhat the Democrats are pushing us closer too, the more they employ those methods themselves.

They are targeting one pollster. A pollster whose results match NO ONE else.......

[Roboteer]

....and the Democrats persist in these tactics even today.

[JimRom]

Originally Posted by Smash255

They are targeting one pollster. A pollster whose results match NO ONE else.......

The pollster who came closest to being accurate in 2016, when their results didn’t line up with anyone else, either. This is why Democrats should stop destroying history and start studying it; so that they won’t repeat it.