Political International Kitchen Sink LJ Poll....

[shadowkat]

Does anyone really read posts on the weekends, besides me? Since I can't read them during the week? And how often do you actually respond to the posts you read? Do you read or do a quick scan? How often do you regret the responses you've made and wish you could retract it like an errant email before it gets read as opposed to merely deleting? To what degree are you immersed in politics? Where do you get your information? What information do you trust as reliable, what don't you trust? And do your question your views or just hunt for information that reinforces it?

I ask too many questions. It's not that I want to know so much as I want to understand. It's why I've taken psychology classes at different points and read the books - the attempt to understand how others think and how I think. Seldom works. Except when I force myself to step outside my own perspective completely.

Anywho...here is a poll, that I'm doubtful will get many responses since I'm posting it at 9:45 pm on a Sat morning and not during the work week - when many people are surfing to deal with boredom/downtime at work. Then again, I may be wrong about that - perhaps there are few out there like myself who do? If so, please take a moment. Also if you can link to it that would be great...more responses the better.

[In hindsight, I should have probably put "All of the Above" as a category for one of those entries...oh well.]




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Comments

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I do try to get a lot of information, I love to listen to Keith Olberman, but I only believe him if I hear things confirmed elsewhere because I know he is giving opinion pieces. And I always believe the opposite of whatever Rush Limbaugh ever says, because I feel that he gets everything 100% wrong; I can't even imagine that I would ever agree with anything he says/thinks!

I do try to keep up with a lot of different sources and not be so attached to my POV that I don't listen, but I do know I can be very closed minded about some things. I can be very stubborn, opinionated, and annoying in expressing myself, but funnily enough I almost never regret it....
I guess if I ever hurt the feelings of someone I cared about I would really regret it, but normally I have a pretty good idea of what my friends think and I channel my rants to people w/similar ideas.

I have to say that I only read a very limited number of people on lj, that is to say that I read 100% of all of my flist's posts... but I don't add people onto my flist if I don't think I want to read them. If someone isn't interesting enough to read then I don't see any reason to have their posts come up on my 'friend's' page.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

good video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=undEkXtJjJU
of course those of us online are going heavily for Obama....

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

That's not completely true. Unfortunately.
There are quite a few conservatives online and more than a few anti-OBama youtube videos and pro-Palin ones. We've just managed to avoid them.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Oh I didn't mean that there weren't any...
but when they do most online polls, when you look at youtube, MySpace, and other online sites you find it is pretty consistantly
Obama 80%
McCain 20%
but I have to tell you that AOL is REALLY the place w/all the conservative/Republican types, check out THIS crazy poll:
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/11/aol-straw-poll-sept-11-18/
can you believe that?! LOL

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

That actually makes sense. AOL is more structured with all sorts of controls and rules, while YouTube, Google, and Livejournal are far looser.

I find AOL annoying, which is why I never got on it. It's also very "ad" and commerical driven.

ON LJ - there are quite a few conservatives, they just don't always answer polls.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I never used AOL because they never had any local connections to where I lived in Iowa (the 'local' dial up connection would have cost me .80/minute over and above what AOL charged!) otherwise I might have been tempted because when driving around the country it was usually easy to find a local AOL number. But you'll notice that Iowa is one of the few states going for Obama in AOL's poll...
I've actually noticed a lot more conservative/Republican/religious right at Facebook than at MySpace (although I'm sure there must be some at MySpace).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Interesting comment about Iowa.

There are quite a few conservatives on MySpace. But MySpace also tends to be fairly "media centric or driven" and has a huge 20-30 something demo. Lots of actors, celebrities, etc on MySpace. And it tends to do more bands and videos than actual posting.

FaceBook started as a college networking site and branched out, also got bought by corporate interests...and has a very structured air about it. In some ways it has a lot in common with AOL. Also it's gotten very "biz networking" - I have at least one friend on it that was a former boss (from the video game company). I think it's geared more towards locating folks and linking up again than culture. The cultural sites seem to be more liberal for some reason and the business networking more conservative, but that may be a generalization.