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In reply to the discussion: Bill Moyers: Democrats Can't Unite Until DWS Goes [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)a bogus figure. There is a blizzard of trash polls going on, and too many grab whatever sounds good to them to "prove" a point.
The 3%, very differently, is from Pew research. My "41.5%" neither know or care about "DWS" was pulled out of the air, but I may have understated to try to be fair; it may be more like 43.9%. The reality is that most Americans are so ignorant that by far most adults can't name the three branches of government, explain in brief what they do, and name their own senators. It's appallingly, disastrously real.
Most also cannot explain coherently or at all knowledgeably the differences between conservative-liberal and Republican-Democrat ideologies and histories. They know their own label but cannot explain their own ideology. Conservatism, especially, has degraded for large numbers of people, with the assistance of political manipulators, to being "against the Democrats." That's literally the limit of their understanding. All this has been measured by many studies.
(Many DUers are just as ignorant, knowing what Bernie says he wants to accomplish and nothing about the ideology, history, or achievements of the party he joined for expedience.)
The typical voter blames the CURRENT PRESIDENT, no one else, for all he's unhappy with. That's because it's the one name almost all of them know. Kind of like "DWS," amaf.
And these people "on average," in either party or in none, are going to know or care who "DWS" is, by any name or title, or what her mile-long list of supposedly crimes is? Not hardly.