<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"> Do those count? Should they? Or can we come up with some kind of three-fifths compromise for those who cannot name their representative in congress? Can you? (I’m not meaning that as a criticism BillW, for I can name my senators but cannot name my representative either.) <span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">spike</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">It appears that you know polls, so let me ask and tell: do the polls you know of ask specific questions or go for an overall rating? In the polls of my classes using an instrument made by me rather than the administration, I scored highly on doing my job according to specific questions (which I can furnish). But the overall rating was below the specific rating according to a general question.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">So it appears that they could not disapprove of my actual inclass behavior or requirements or tests, etc. but wanted a way to express some displeasure with the class, possibly because I was harder than the other two teaching 101.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">So it matters a great deal whether the poll just asks for a general opinion, or a rating on specific behaviors of Congress.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">I can see where a person might not know his Congressmen but is expressing displeasure with Congress as a whole. He might even know what they are doing without knowing his own people. Or he might be just expressing a dissatisfaction with his own life and blames it on Congress, the President, the phases of the moon and so on. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Suppose we do a poll. Ask if they are satisfied with their life in various categories, and then ask for ratings of various gov. depts. Now reverse that order with the other half of the Ss. I would bet it'll make a big difference. (order effects were part of my dissertation) <span style="font-size:12pt">Good polling is hard to do. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">I have to say that I don't follow the logic of your reversal of who is ahead Pres or Congress. If you follow the polls, can you tell me if they supply you with the actual questions asked?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Cal. has 53 reps, so you can be forgiven for not knowing yours. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">bill w</p></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 5:17 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:42 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">> one candidate expressed the opinion that those who think the government has let them down are to be tossed into a “basket of deplorables” along with Trump supporters.</blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">That's not what she said, she said half of Trump supporters should be tossed into a basket of </font>deplorables,and if anything I think she was being too kind when she said only half. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">Among Trump supporters 50% think Bill Clinton murdered Vince Foster and 37% aren't sure, 65% think Obama is Muslim and 22% aren't sure, 59% think Obama wan't born in the USA and so is not the legitimate president and 18% aren't sure, 31% think the USA should ban gay people from entering the country and 14% aren't sure, 48% think it was a great idea to put American citizens born in the USA in concentration camps during WW2 because they were of Japanese decent<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">while</div> 31% weren't sure if it was a good idea or not, 24% think Antonin Scalia was murdered by liberals and 34% aren't sure if he was or not. And a whopping 67% think free trade is a bad thing!</font></div><span class=""><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div> Well I don’t feel deplorable.<span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:18.6667px"> </span></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">She wan't talking about you because you're not a Trump supporter.</div> </font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><br></p></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>
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