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To: jbe who wrote (46604)	7/23/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Thanks for the URL. I went directly to the survey questions, having some experience in polling and drafting questionnaires. This appears to be a fairly typical questionnaire put together by someone with enough knowledge about polling, inadvertent questionnaire bias, drafting questions, etc. to avoid the most elementary errors, but not enough to really know what they are doing. (It is excruciatingly difficult, if even possible, to design a truly fair and objective poll or questionnaire.) The main thing, though, is that the key questions are subjective, not objective. Based on self-reporting. Do you consider yourself . . . The advantage of examining who people actually vote for, or which parties or campaigns they give money to, is that (as long as the anwers are truthful) there is no subjectivity in it (unless a person is willing to spend money or vote against his real beliefs to change the outcome of the poll). Now to the only answer to my questions that you haven't said you're completely uninterested in pursuing: 1. Business interests are neither liberal nor conservative. Money has no ideology. >>You gotta be kidding. Not at all. A company will do business with a facist or a marxist without caring, as long as they can make money and it's not illegal to. (If the government would allow, McDonald's would be in Cuba tomorrow.) They will sell to Communist China and to Taiwan, to India and Pakistan. Even when South Africa was deep in apartheid, IBM, Ford, and many other companies were there; now that it is under black rule, they're still there. Not a single one of the dollars in my pocket says "this is a communist dollar" or "this is a facist dollar."