{"id":10156,"date":"2013-03-19T01:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10156"},"modified":"2013-03-19T01:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T08:28:24","slug":"poll-results3192013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/19\/poll-results3192013\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Results&ndash;3\/19\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here are the results of our Sequester Responsibility poll.&#160; They are not statistically valid, because readers at Politics Plus are not selected to match national demographics.&#160; Nevertheless, the results do express our readers\u2019 superior grasp of the issue.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"Poll0319\" alt=\"Poll0319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Poll0319.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And here are your comments.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: ; color: \"><font color=\"#5d5d5d\"><span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\">Posted by <\/font><\/span><span><font style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><strong>Elayne Myers<\/strong><\/font><\/span><span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\"> on <\/font><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\"><span><em>March 13, 2013 at 4:17 pm<\/em><\/span><\/font><span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\">.&#160; <\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: ; color: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\" color=\"#5d5d5d\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: ; color: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\" color=\"#5d5d5d\">Tell Congress NO. Obama needs to get his butt out of office. He hasn&#8217;t done a damn thing to bring our great country out of the mess he is currently destroying and the good old boys are sitting on fat a&#8212;s knowing they are set for life. 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They are the poorest example of american government to our young people in this history of this country! <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: ; color: \"><font color=\"#5d5d5d\"><span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\">Posted by <\/font><\/span><span><font style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><strong>Pamela<\/strong><\/font><\/span><span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\"> on <\/font><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\"><span><em>March 3, 2013 at 1:37 am<\/em><\/span><\/font><span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\">.&#160; <\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: ; color: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\" color=\"#5d5d5d\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: ; color: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\" color=\"#5d5d5d\">The GOP controlled congress is responsible for this. They are the poorest example of american government to our young people in this history of this country! <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: ; color: \"><font color=\"#5d5d5d\"><span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\">Posted by <\/font><\/span><span><font style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><strong>Yvonne White<\/strong><\/font><\/span><span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\"> on <\/font><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\"><span><em>March 2, 2013 at 5:29 pm<\/em><\/span><\/font><span><font style=\"font-size: 7.5pt\">.&#160; <\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: ; color: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\" color=\"#5d5d5d\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: ; color: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\" color=\"#5d5d5d\">CONgre$$ (both sides are dumba$$es for forcing this) and the President will catch blame &#8211; Americans have NOT seen improvement in the &quot;end of the Rece$$ion&quot; (only the rich Corporations)..so this sequester is only going to add insult to injury. 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I am assuming the 40%, which dwindles every year, are the 1% and the religious fanatics who think they have a right to make all Americans toe the line of their particular brand of nonsense. The people know at whose doorstep this mess belongs and I am hoping they have as long a memory as I do. 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A lot of Americans have very short memories.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"clip_image001[2]\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image001[2]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/clip_image0012.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I voted that Republicans are to blame, because they demanded a guarantee of cuts, and by Boehner&#8217;s own admission, it was 98% od what he wanted.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is an new poll up.&#160; Please vote.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the results of our Sequester Responsibility poll.&#160; They are not statistically valid, because readers at Politics Plus are not selected to match national demographics.&#160; Nevertheless, the results do express our readers\u2019 superior grasp of the issue. And here are your comments. 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