One longtime Democratic researcher has a technique she leans on when nudging voters to share their deepest, darkest feelings about politics. She asks them to compare America’s two major parties to animals. After around 250 focus groups of swing voters, a few patterns have emerged, said the researcher, Anat Shenker-Osorio. Republicans are seen as “apex predators,” like lions, tigers and sharks — beasts that take what they want when they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths: slow, plodding, passive. So Ms. Shenker-Osorio perked up earlier this year when a Democratic man in Georgia suggested that a very different kind of animal symbolized her party. “A deer,” he said, “in headlights.”...
Somehow Republicans do way too much, so aggressively, but Democrats don't get anything done? And these were swing voters? Sorry. Not believed. Sounds too much like the opinion of someone with left-wing policy preferences. You want more from the Democrats and you want it faster. And those terrible Republicans!
Anyway, asking people what animal Democrats and Republicans reminded them of reminded me of the old Barbara Walters question "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" Yeah, be skeptical about that too because she didn't ask that question... other than that one time, after Katharine Hepburn started it by likening herself to a tree. Barbara Walters followed up with "What kind of tree are you, if you think you’re a tree?" Of course, Hepburn gave the answer nearly everyone would give if they were asked what kind of tree they are: Oak. And poor Barbara was forever after treated as if she asked everyone what kind of tree they were.
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Most GOP in D.C. make me think of a family of gerbils up some Democrat's ass.
And, yeah- I bet the number of focus groups actually conducted numbered between zero and two.
Lemmings. The GOP are lemmings headed for the cliff.
The dems are ostriches with their heads in the sand.
The Democrat Party has aptly named itself after a jackass.
Sounds like something USAID might sponsor.
Yancy.. #1.
GOP = whatever animal wears plaid golf pants and laughs like a hyena.
Democratics = That animal that lies all the time. The real boi.
Baba Wawa was the deserved butt of jokes that hardly compared to her real performances. Watch her encounters with Uri Geller and ask yourself, was she that childishly credulous or that manipulative of her audience?
I should have been a political consultant. What a racket! They just make s*** up and see what sticks.
As for Barbara Walters, my mind immediately goes to Gilda's Radners' Barbara Wawa character. GAWD she was funny. RIP Gilda.
Democrats = hyenas
Republicans = a cross between the clownish panda and a chicken.
250 focus groups? How many in each group? The BS is strong in this story, but I've come to learn that anything that mentions polling, focus groups, or other similar concepts needs to be re-read with the understanding that when Democrat experts conduct exercises like this, they are not 'receiving', they're 'transmitting'.
At five focus groups a day, that would only take 50 days. Seems reasonable. If I were a reporter at the NYT, that news would be FTP!
Hepburn more of a banyan than an oak
A black widow... whore h/t NAACP and wooly mammoth, respectively.
Democrats need to chill out. Republicans own nothing yet. That is to say that the federal budget they last voted on was essentially a continuation of Joe Biden's budget. Full of waste, fraud and abuse discovered by none other than the world's richest man, Elon Musk.
Now there's this Big Beautiful Bill.
And they've sent Elon Musk packing.
Because Republicans are about to own the federal budget and the federal deficit and the federal debt - because they're about to vote yes to all of it and expand the debt by $5 trillion dollars.
There will be BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of waste, fraud and abuse in those budgets that Democrats can then attack. And Democrats will be right on the facts.
It will be Republicans funding all this fraud. Not Democrats.
"It will be Republicans funding all this fraud. Not Democrats."
yup, seems the Republicans decided that Musk and Trump are temporary, and fraud, waste and corruption is forever.
Much, if not all, of the fraud Musk found, will be funded with this new 'budget'.
Musk spent a lot of his personal capital to do his job, and suffered a huge hit. The congress ignored everything he did. Pathetic
Democrats are chipmunks stuffing their mouths with all the goodies that will fit, even to the point of choking, for some. Republicans are the peanut plants, purposefully dropping all the peanuts for the chipmunks to devour, completely ignoring their voters.
What's your evidence for Democrats wanting to get things done?
Found via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit - Jonathan Chait (link below to Yahoo News, originally in The Atlantic) discusses the Democrat civil war which he views as being between the 'abundance Democrats' who are trying to revive the old New Deal image versus the current party leadership drawn from the Boomer activist class that excels in blocking government and private action.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coming-democratic-civil-war-130000832.html
Barbara Walters followed up with "What kind of tree are you, if you think you’re a tree?" Of course, Hepburn gave the answer nearly everyone would give if they were asked what kind of tree they are: Oak.
"You an oak man?"
"Oak's nice."
So, political consultants have branched out from profit-centered polling to focus groups. I don't know if they are technically animals, but if I had to name a life-form that political consultants represent, I would have to say gut bacteria of the male bovid.
We’re elephants — amiable and peace-loving, but screw with us and we’ll trample you. Democrats have, rightly, been symbolized associated with jackasses since 1870 — more than a century and a half.
Classy Dolly Parton, nasty Baba Wawa
https://youtu.be/If-oWqUYzlQ?feature=shared
When I was a high school physics teacher, I would often include a one point extra credit question at the end, "If Mr Sweeny were a tree/flower/song/whatever, what would he be? The students enjoyed it and reading the answers often made the grading go easier.
The 250 focus groups Anat Shenker-Osorio allegedly has been involved with, using panels of swing voters, would almost have to have been virtual/Zoom meetings. Focus groups are expensive -- about $5,000 at the lower end -- and that would put the total bill for 250 of them at around $1.25 million. Did anyone really pay her firm that much? Historical trivia: She grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.
Democrats come off to me like a pack of spider monkeys and when angry, you know hat they do.
“One longtime Democratic researcher has a technique she leans on when nudging voters to share their deepest, darkest feelings about politics.“
I think I found the problem here.
Ophiocordyceps sinensis.
This is a fungus that infests a particular species of moth caterpillar and causes it to climb out and get to a high point to release spores.
She probably did do 250 focus groups, using USAID money.
"Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason." – Al Gore, The Politics of Fear
Hence, if you want people to go along with policies that don't benefit them, but benefit us, we need to create a lot of fear... let me think... I got it —Orang Man Bad!
Based on what we saw during the campaign, democrats define "swing voter" as someone working for a state-level DNC office.
Republicans are ants. Democrats are grasshoppers.
Except Republicans in congress. They're more like Buridan's Ass.
More likely she used focus groups to canvas 250 people.
Focus groups are expensive -- about $5,000 at the lower end -- and that would put the total bill for 250 of them at around $1.25 million. Did anyone really pay her firm that much?
No, of course not. Someone paid Anat Shenker-Osorio well over $1.25 million, taken from an NGO or the DNC or the like, and personally received a 10-15% "gratuity" from Shenker-Osorio's firm, and Shenker-Osorio skimmed more off of the top, and the DNC refilled the coffers by having Kamala beg for $30 from anyone who has ever leaned democrat.
Man is an oak. Nature contains nothing sturdier. The universe need not arm itself to defend him. A drop of water is not enough to preserve him. Even if the universe were to defend him, he would no more be dishonoured than whatever does not protect him. Man knows that his reign has no death, that the universe boasts a beginning. The universe knows nothing: it is a best a thinking reed.
Lautreamont, poesies
The party that doesn't allow voters to choose a candidate and instead, selects one for them is interested in what those voters think? Really?
Don't worry if your life is hard
and your rewards are few
remember that the mighty oak
was once a nut like you.
Ah, childhood memories.
I'm surprised that dung beetle wasn't a majority choice for both parties.
Disparity of Cult said...
Classy Dolly Parton, nasty Baba Wawa
Worth watching.
Barbara Walters seriously asks Dolly if her tits are real.
Democrats are:
1) Carpenter ant. At least the ones infected by the fungus O. unilateralis that turns them into “zombie ants” that does crazy things before the fungus spores burst out of the ant, killing it.
2) People on this board have called the democrats rats before. Rats can be infected by Toxoplasma gondii, which then causes the rats to be eaten by cats. The protozoan can be spread through(*) cat feces and are known to cause neuroses in humans. It has been speculated that they are partially the cause of the crazy cat lady stereotype.
(*) cc: Iowa for the spelling.
I dunno. For me skunks, weasels and rabid dogs come to mind when thinking about various parts of the Democrat ruling clique.
@Disparity of Cult: Wow. Barbara Walters was awful.
I'm a cherry tree. Loveliest of trees :)
Antigens and antibodies. They inhabit both parties.
Barbara Walters was no oak
Or even just plain folks
But was really just a joke.
Honestly, the people we got inflicted on us when there was just 3 networks and PBS. And no internet.
It occurs to me that MAGAs stopped responding to polls several years ago but now that seems to be the default American response. I've heard it to used to take a hour to get someone who would respond but now it takes much, much more. You think about it and it seems that maybe MAGA should start responding. For example, "We have not yet begun to tax or people wouldn't be jamming the highways. We need a mileage tax." "I think Kamala Harris is underrated, I thought she was a great candidate." "I don't think homelessness is a problem in California; I think the people who live in million-dollar houses are the problem through selfishness and confiscation as in South Africa might be the way to go." "I think California (New York, Minneapolis, whatever) is better off without the fascist red-staters who are leaving."
PS. I think Democrats are like silverfish because they are living on books which no one disturbs and which disturb no one. Staying in the insect kingdom for purposes of comparison, Republicans are like monarch butterflies fighting their way out of the cocoon of government overreach.
Similar to the idea in pop-culture studies that when a Republican is President you get movies about vampires and when a Democrat is President you get movies about zombies.
As my students would say "that tracks": when the Reps are in power, you fear a few wealthy, aristocratic monsters draining you of blood, and when the Dems are in power its hordes of mindless creatures eating your brain.
But Trump doesn't really fit either of those patterns, so maybe there will good Werewolf movies in the next couple of years . . .
Democrats definitely would be raccoons, stealing stuff out of the trash and occasionally getting rabies and biting people.
Interviewers ask these dumb questions. I think you're supposed to say "I'm a busy bee, ha ha" and not "I'm a crazy lone wolf."
People always think that the other party's leaders are malevolent and cunning, while their own party's leaders are naïve babes in the woods. It's pretty clear that Boehner, Hastert, McCarthy, Cantor and Thune were no match for Pelosi and Schumer when it came to cunning and hunger for power. The Republicans wanted to be respected, or even loved, or just to pass the time without a catastrophe happened, while the Democrats were focused on getting and using power. That goes back at least as far as Tip O'Neill versus Bob Michel. When a Republican did show some cunning and drive -- maybe McConnell and Ryan -- he exercised it more against their own party than against the Democrats. Hakeem Jeffries isn't in the same class as Pelosi and Schumer, but then, indications are that he may not actually be the one running things
The Democrat Party is a Dung Beetle ...
Just rolling poop around... all day all night.
Drout: "Trump doesn't really fit either of those patterns, so maybe there will good Werewolf movies in the next couple of years . . ."
His hair was perfect.
JSM
Rocco said...
"...Rats can be infected by Toxoplasma gondii, which then causes the rats to be eaten by cats. The protozoan can be spread through(*) cat feces and are known to cause neuroses in humans. It has been speculated that they are partially the cause of the crazy cat lady stereotype."
In Vitro Effects of Ivermectin and Sulphadiazine on Toxoplasma gondii
"Conclusion: These results indicate that ivermectin significantly inhibited replication of the tachyzoites of T. gondii RH strain."
Is there anything that ivermectin can't do?
MadTownGuy,
> Is there anything that ivermectin can't do?
No worries if there is; doxycycline will have it covered.
When I think of an animal to represent modern Democrats, something like a tapeworm comes to mind. They’re little more than a bunch of parasites.
Weasels when they are sneaky. Rabid wolverines on attack.
Animal and tree totems are fun, but give me a question like, what if clouds were solid as rock but could still float around? And let the fun times begin.
I seem to recall that Lauren Bacall, during an interview, was once asked what kind of tree she would describe for Hepburn. She paused a moment, then replied with a smile: Horse Chestnut. I think she caught Kate better than Kate did.
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