THE NATION MOVES TO THE LEFT
Harrissy, Louis J.
T h e N a t i o n M o v e s t o t k e L e f t Ly Louis J. Harrissy Polls have existed in the United States for many years. As a matter of fact several served with distinction in the...
...And one might prudently wonder exactly how responsible America's Polls are...
...8. D o you favor continuation of modem math in public schools...
...In fact it is doubtful that any man of affairs anywhere in the Great Republic takes any position whatsoever without first consulting a Poll...
...7. Are you opposed to giving food stamps to starving children...
...But only in the postwar period have they become really popular — perhaps as a concomitance with the civil rights movement...
...Take for instance this Louis J. Harrissy Poll which our distinguished editor, R. Emmett Tyrrell, and our New York bureau chief...
...Followers of Dr...
...In fact our researchers have found that the Polls' questions are often worded so as to evoke predetermined answers...
...Nervous politicians now spend enormous proportions of their time watching Polls...
...At any rate they are now so terribly popular that they threaten to drastically revise democracy in America...
...6. In the New York mayoral contest do you favor John Lindsay over the Forces of Hate...
...As a matter of fact several served with distinction in the Revolutionary War, and there is a street in Milwaukee named for one...
...T h e N a t i o n M o v e s t o t k e L e f t Ly Louis J. Harrissy Polls have existed in the United States for many years...
...5. D o you dislike Nixon...
...No 67% Yes 2 0 % Object 13% (claiming food stamps are too low in protein to provide starving children with ample diets...
...George Wallace watch flag Polls...
...In Chicago Negro congressmen watch whole neighborhoods of Polls...
...answer yes or no...
...William Kristol recently lifted from a New York newspaper...
...Yes 4 2 % No 4 2 % Do not recognize the name 16% Conclusion: 4 2 % of the nation wish Hubert Humphrey were President...
...Naturally we at the Saturday Evening Club suspect that the Polls are not as objective as the more naive pundits would have us believe...
...Yes 75% No 30.2% Uncertain .8% Conclusion: W e are still working on this one...
...8 No 67% Yes 1% Unreported 32% Conclusion: Only about 1 % of a nation ever has anything intelligent to say...
...2. What do you think of Nixon's Vietnam policy...
...Its conclusion is that: The Nation Is Moving to the Left 1. Do you consider Nixon's skimpy welfare program inadequate...
...Yes 72% No 12% Undecided 16% Conclusion: 847r> of the nation is confused by President Nixon's Vietnam policy...
...Of course not 85% Yes 10% Undecided 5% Conclusion: 1 0 % of the country is sick and needs a crack in the head...
...4. You don't oppose student control of the world, do you...
...Yes 100% Conclusion: Sometimes ifs best to do your research in Manhattan...
...3. D o you approve of brutish, savage, vicious, porcine cops busting the skulls of peaceful, idealistic, young lovers in Chicago...
...This situation is giving the Polls tremendous leverage on our society...
...Conclusion: 1 3 % of the nation feels food stamps should be fortified with massive protein enforcement...
...Yes 70% No 20% Undecided 10% Conclusion: 707o of the nation supports Senator George McGovern...
...Further, their conclusions often bear no relation whatever to their biased questions...
Vol. 3 • November 1969 • No. 3
