As we gear up for the long march to November’s election, many of us are struggling with this choice about the Obama campaign, prompting us to launch our LA Progressive survey last Saturday.
Surveys
Obama and Leftists Survey — Question 5
January 18, 2012 By
After the November election, how will America look in the coming four years?
Obama and Leftists Survey — Question 4
January 18, 2012 By
Occupy and Democrats: dating, marriage, just friends?
Obama and Leftists Survey — Question 3
January 18, 2012 By
How best can the progressive community move the Democratic Party leftward?
Obama and Leftists Survey — Question 2
January 18, 2012 By
Q2 Given the antics of the cavalcade of clowns vying for the Republican presidential nomination, what do you this election cycle? I’m not sure things would get worse than they are under Obama. The same thing that will happen if Barack Bush wins. Economic inequality will continue to increase; wars will be never ending The [...]
Obama and Leftists Survey — Question 1
January 18, 2012 By
As a progressive (or liberal or lefty), will you support President Barack Obama’s re-election?
Saturday Survey: Legalize Marijuana?
January 8, 2012 By
As should come as no great surprise from a survey about legalizing marijuana from a progressive political magazine, an overwhelming majority in our latest LA Progressive survey support legalization of marijuana. Fully 80% of the 126 people who responded strongly support outright legalization of marijuana, with another 16% mildly supporting legalization. Just 2.4% oppose. Drawn [...]
Occupy LA 2.0: Hey, Bro!
December 2, 2011 By
Saturday Survey: Sports & Society
November 25, 2011 By
Survey Saturday: Voting Rights for the Formerly Incarcerated
November 11, 2011 By
Survey Saturday: Occupy Your Mama
November 4, 2011 By
Survey Saturday: With upwards of ten thousand Occupy protesters flooding through downtown Oakland yesterday to close shipping facilities there and organizers here in Los Angeles planning a full teach-in weekend with the likes of Robert Reich and Robert Scheer, the Occupy Movement has the world’s attention.
Saturday Survey: America’s Death Penalty Derby
October 28, 2011 By
Saturday Survey: Keeping its lead in the nation’s death penalty derby, Texas yesterday conducted its twelfth execution this year, putting a mentally impaired Frank Garcia to death for killing Hector Garcia, a police officer, ten years ago. In line with another execution yesterday in Texas, this week’s poll gathered your thoughts on the effectiveness and morality of the death penalty in America.
Survey Saturday: Lame Stream?
October 21, 2011 By
Saturday Survey: Much more common (51%) was the thought that mainstream media is corporate owned, so they are wise to downplay or belittle anything that might upset the economic apple cart. And 35% thought today’s journalists much too closely identify with wealthy elites, which slants their coverage of things like Occupy Wall Street.
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Lamestream Media Survey Comments
Journalism lost much of its edge when it became a profession, not a trade. And tightening budgets make it doubly hard on reporters who now must work online AND in print. But the accumulation of all media in just a few, huge corporate hands means journalism will never again protect democracy as it once did.