Doug Schoen out and out lied in his commentary in the WSJ. This is a clear case where the source material does not support what is said by the pollster.
[quote]At Capital New York, Azi Paybarah has obtained the full poll results, and Schoen appears to have grossly misrepresented the results of his poll. He writes that a large majority are bound together by support for a radical redistribution of wealth. But when he asked the protesters what they’d like the Occupy Wall Street movement to achieve, just 4 percent said radical redistribution of wealth, which tied for last on the list of answers given. There is no mention of radical redistribution of wealth anywhere else in the poll.
Meanwhile, 35 percent said they would like to influence the Democratic Party, Here are the full results of that question:
Similarly, while Schoen writes that a large majority express opposition to free-market capitalism, when asked what frustrates them most about the U.S. political process, only 3 percent named our democratic/capitalist system. Out of 198 respondents, that amounts to five or six people, which is quite the opposite of a large majority. Here are the full results for that question:
Schoen also writes that [s]ixty-five percent say that government has a moral responsibility to guarantee all citizens access to affordable health care, a college education, and a secure retirementno matter the cost. But the actual question makes no mention of costs. [/quote]
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What does this show? Schoen is a lying piece of shit.
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