# Political Persuasion Poll for GD posters only **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 3, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567 "2010-02-03T19:15:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ruminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Ruminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruminator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/21 "2010-02-04T00:18:09Z")
> [@L. G. Butts](#): > > My thesis: The complaint from conservatives on this board that they are oppressed, harassed and greatly outnumbered by the liberals is greatly overstated, especially if you only focus on Great Debates where it counts. Well, I don’t think conservatives are oppressed or harassed (that’s a little too much drama) but it seems pretty clear by without even doing a poll that liberals outnumber conservatives. You could just look at the typical thread participation in GD debates and come to that conclusion… unless… you’re also trying to count the “lurkers” who don’t post at all. But then again, why would we assume the lurkers would also participate in the poll? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/22 "2010-02-04T00:52:07Z")
Whoops, didn’t see the bit about how you have to be a GD resident. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/23 "2010-02-04T02:47:44Z")
I think you also missed what would be a relatively common option here: () Democrats and Republicans are basically the same. I’m a (insert third party). ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/24 "2010-02-04T21:28:47Z")
So far it’s 61% lib vs 22% conservative, almost a 3 to 1 ratio. Not unexpected. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/25 "2010-02-04T22:11:37Z")
I’m 75% libertarian and 25% conservative. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/26 "2010-02-05T00:07:12Z")
I’m a staunch follower of the Unique Snowflake Party. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/27 "2010-02-05T00:37:08Z")
This past year with Obama in charge and Republicans doing everything they can to harm him has convinced me that conservatives are evil. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/28 "2010-02-05T03:23:15Z")
Yeah, I can’t in good conscience vote on this one due to the way the categories are phrased. I generally but not exclusively vote Democrat, but that’s my own brand of pragmatism - I think poorly of the party and political parties generally. I’m not a joiner. I’d say I’m a little to the left of the mainline Democratic party establishment in a number of respects, yet I don’t believe Republicans as a group are theocratic fascists. In fact I tend to loathe extreme partisan rhetoric no matter which side it is issuing from. Then again, I’m not a _heavy_ poster to GD political threads, largely for that reason. So while for purposes of GD demographics I’m definitely on the left, for the most part anyone who claims that mean old lefty **Tamerlane** is bullying them ( and I know all of you do 😉 ) is probably exaggerating a tad. I might fit a little loosely into **Sam** ’s “Liberal Democrat” description, with bleed over into the categories both above and below. But I’d never check it in a real poll because identifying myself as a capital D Democrat would be anathema to me. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/29 "2010-02-05T04:20:17Z")
[quote=“L. G. Butts, Ph.D., post:13, topic:527567”] Well, hell. Should I restart this poll? How about: In the great SDMB left/right split that gets complained about in Great Debates so often (see [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550594) for instance), where do you fall in the spectrum? [ul] [li]Clothahump[/li][li]Hard Right[/li][li]I can play both sides, but mostly right[/li][li]I don’t really play at all[/li][li]I can play both sides, but mostly left[/li][li]Hard Left[/li][li]Der Trihs[/ul][/li][/QUOTE] How about not mentioning other posters by name if you decide to restart this poll? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/30 "2010-02-05T05:47:56Z")
I’m a diehard Liberal, but I wouldn’t say that the other side of the aisle is evil. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/31 "2010-02-05T15:44:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > How about not mentioning other posters by name if you decide to restart this poll? Sorry, I was trying to be funny and cute, but I can see it could be offensive. Won’t do it again. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/32 "2010-02-05T16:12:02Z")
I’m an “Anarchist”, all politicians suck, Republicrat, Democan, they’re all the same Or to use the Futuramaverse, I’d be in the “Voter Apathy Party”, or the “National Ray-Gun Association” party ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/33 "2010-02-05T23:13:38Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > This past year with Obama in charge and Republicans doing everything they can to harm him has convinced me that conservatives are evil. And the previous 8 years? Whenthe Democrats were trying to stop everything the Repulicans were doing? Did that also confirm your bias that conservatives are evil? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/34 "2010-02-05T23:32:16Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > And the previous 8 years? Whenthe Democrats were trying to stop everything the Repulicans were doing? Did that also confirm your bias that conservatives are evil? Holy Revisionist History, Batman! Do you mean like when 1/3 of House Democrats and more than half of the Senate Democrats voted with Bush on the Iraq Resolution to use military force in Iraq after being snowed by the administration? Or when they used “reconciliation” in 2001 to prevent a filibuster of the Bush tax cuts? How about that time they blocked the Patriot Act? Wait, that never happened. Please provide some cites for major legislation blocked in Bush’s tenure, particularly in his first two years. Then cite for stonewalling without offering any alternatives. I’m dying to hear about this. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/35 "2010-02-06T00:10:02Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > And the previous 8 years? Whenthe Democrats were trying to stop everything the Repulicans were doing? Did that also confirm your bias that conservatives are evil? Yeah, I would like a cite as well. But we should probably do this in Great Debates. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567/36 "2010-02-06T14:48:54Z")
Sorry. I shouldn’t have tried to pick a “debate” in IMHO. In spite of my opinion of **Yoggie’s** opinion, it’s still his opinion, however obnoxiously expressed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-persuasion-poll-for-gd-posters-only/527567.md?page=1)