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So, people who once defined themselves as "liberal" or "socialist" now define themselves as "progressive"?
Give it a couple of years, the polls will catch up, and someone will come up with a new name.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...el-in-america/
A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press out yesterday shows that “progressive” is the most positively viewed political label in America, with 67 percent holding a positive view compared to just 22 percent who view the term negatively:
~~Progressive I am.
So, people who once defined themselves as "liberal" or "socialist" now define themselves as "progressive"?
Give it a couple of years, the polls will catch up, and someone will come up with a new name.
Only a fool stands in the way of progress.
whoa...I heard progressives are destroying capitalism and turning kids gay and making everybody get abortions
Their form of progress ends with authoritarian rule.
The thoughts I left with after reading the links is that this is about the labels only. Not the actions of those who practice under one particular label. After all, Progressive is just a cleaned of renaming of Socialism anyway.
No, it's more subtle than that. They convince everyone it's OK, and call people who disagree hatemongers. They take the stigmas away, which naturally leads to more of such activities.
it' amazing that the entire progrsseive population is all on the down low..
where's the progress on fixing the debt?
Only because of Flo...
http://www.people-press.org/2011/12/...m-socialism/2/The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted December 7-11, 2011 among a national sample of 1,521 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (914 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 607 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 284 who had no landline telephone). The survey was conducted by interviewers at Princeton Data Source under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. A combination of landline and cell phone random digit dial samples were used; both samples were provided by Survey Sampling International. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish. Respondents in the landline sample were selected by randomly asking for the youngest adult male or female who is now at home. Interviews in the cell sample were conducted with the person who answered the phone, if that person was an adult 18 years of age or older. For detailed information about our survey methodology, see http://people-press.org/methodology/
The combined landline and cell phone sample are weighted using an iterative technique that matches gender, age, education, race, Hispanic origin, region, and population density to parameters from the March 2010 Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. The sample also is weighted to match current patterns of telephone status and relative usage of landline and cell phones (for those with both), based on extrapolations from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey. The weighting procedure also accounts for the fact that respondents with both landline and cell phones have a greater probability of being included in the combined sample and adjusts for household size within the landline sample. Sampling errors and statistical tests of significance take into account the effect of weighting. The following table shows the sample sizes and the error attributable to sampling that would be expected at the 95% level of confidence for different groups in the survey:
Sample sizes and sampling errors for other subgroups are available upon request.
In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.
So the youngest person in the household have a positive view of progressive and conservative...Sounds like more ignorance than anything else.
Obama: I want to let tax cuts roll off.
GOP: No.
Obama: Fine, we'll keep them
GOP: No.
Yep, goes along with how a term sounds rather than how people really are.
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