Public Pulse: how the American public views its government

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How do we tell Washington how we feel? We show them. We sifted through the top public opinion polls, compiled the results most representative of the nation, prettied them up, and set them to compelling music. Lawmakers must be shown what the nation thinks of them and their many years of policies that are bankrupting America.
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Polls in video:

"6 out of 10 Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction -- Reuters, July 2010"

"43% have a favorable view of the Democratic Party. 36% for the Republican Party. -- Gallup, May 2010"

"Congress's approval rating has been under 29% consistently for since 2005. Gallup, 2005-2010"

"The same as OJ Simpson's approval rating a year after his trial. -- Gallup, 1995"

"Congress's approval rating today - 19%. Gallup, Aug 2010"

"Nearly half of likely voters think a random selection of people from the phone book would do better than Congress. -- Rasmussen, January 2010"

"86% of Americans say the system of government is broken. -- CNN/Opinion Research Corp, February 2010"

"The two most important issues to Americans are: jobs [and] the budget deficit - Pew and the National Journal, July 2010"

"Unemployment has nearly doubled since the end of 2007. - Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2010"

"53% think we'd be better off without the stimulus. - Time, July 2010"

"67% oppose a new stimulus. - Time, July 2010"

"66% believe government wastes "a lot" of our tax dollars. - Center for American Progress, August 2010"

"A majority believes we should [cut spending to stimulate the economy]. - Democracy Corps, June 2010"

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[topdog53k]

I will be able to make a change one day. If i make it out of the army alive. America Help is on the way.

[BlueTeamTV]

Very nice video, it made you think hard and it made you tear up a little bit. Very well done!

[JoeWCMorone]

have we forgotten that we the people ... black, white, or whatever, should work together!! thats our problem. we are just to stuck up to beleive in a solutiion

[MissMaxximum]

what is this song?

[tattat44]

Most of the public thinks congress knows jack shit and that may be true, but then the public doesn't know jack shit either, and they don't have a rudimentary understanding of economics.

Cut spending to stimulate growth? That's at once moronic and oxymoronic. Real solutions don't happen in days, they happen in decades, and they certainly aren't simple, or black and white enough to put into a minute and a half video.

[ancientmathmatics]

The campaign launched against our United States President is atrocious, disrespectful, and disgusting. Those who have the power and resources to do so, deceive, brainwash and prey on the lack of legal, political, and economic knowledge of American citizens.

[ancientmathmatics]

So what's the truth about polls? Few in the public have the time or resources to do an in-depth study in an attempt to answer that question, while those who butter their bread on the back of polls have no incentive to do so.

[ancientmathmatics]

The answer probably is because we're told that polls are "scientific" since they use statistical-type analysis, and most of us tend to equate science with a search for objective truth. Despite the scientific patina of a Margin of Error, how does one incontrovertibly prove a poll to be accurate? For nearly all polls, the answer is that it can't be done.

[ancientmathmatics]

Ah, the omnipresent poll. The media punditocracy is addicted to using polls to tell us what "the American people feel" (never think) about everything from a president's so-called approval rating, to how a candidate's chances stack up against others in a race, to our "feelings" about various policy and social issues. Although the public has absolutely no way to evaluate the vast majority of polls for accuracy, most of us simply accept them as incontrovertible indicators of truth. Why?

[ancientmathmatics]

Polls often drastically misinform the public, because there ares no objective ways to verify the accuracy of most polls.

[Linguiphile]

@ELECTRICheartzz Unfortunately, it's not a matter of understanding, but one of ideology. 86% of Americans may want fiscal responsibility in government, but 100% of his fellow Marxists and Keynesians want Obama to continue spending like there's no tomorrow. It's obvious that he's basing his policies on oft-failed Socialistic theory, and that because of this, there may well be NO TOMORROW.

[alphadeathfang15]

dont cut off your nose to spite your face