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Plus, its Zogby.

Confused… huh?  Zogby is a liberal who was pulling for Kerry last election, wouldn’t liberals put more faith in his firm than others?

Zogby is a liberal who was pulling for Kerry last election

I’m not talking about political bias, just flat-out inaccurate polling.  Dude is always way off the mark, at least according to my casual observation anyway.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Given the media’s coverage of similar polls that have gone the other way you’d think they’d cover this one as well, but they haven’t.  Still, though, these polls are all over the place.  I don’t put a lot of stock in any of them.  Heck, next week the Dems will probably have a poll out claiming that the majority of Americans wouldn’t mind paying more into Social Security and getting less back in benefits.

Plus, its Zogby.

Regardless, if the President can get past the spin and nay-saying from the left most Americans will go with his plan.  Not because his arguments will be convincing, but because privatization would be the best thing for Social Security (outside of aborting the program altogether).

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Aaron,

This is an ill-advised and blatant attempt at distortion! And, your exaggerations are not fooling anyone.

Many of the questions begin from the sole premise of whether those survey support giving someone the right to choose some aspect of personal accounts.

And, don’t assume this poll comes with Zogby’s stamp of credibility, because it appears nowhere on the Zogby site, nor is there a link to the Cato Inst. pdf file. It’s obvious that Zogby simply conducted a survey with Cato’s carefully manipulated questions - more blatant (and amateur) than what the Right accuses the other pollsters of!