Noting that there were NO comments on today’s posts, I was wondering why I was so unpopular all of a sudden. Halitosis, perhaps? Then I looked and saw there were some comments “awaiting moderation,” and one of them was from Greg, saying:
Why have you gone to moderating comments? That certainly slows the flow of conversation.
I agree totally, Greg. And I certainly didn’t do it intentionally. Someone was helping me fix some other settings yesterday, and maybe the wrong thing got accidentally clicked. Clumsy me.
Anyway, I think I’ve got it fixed now. Sorry about the inconvenience.
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Hey Brad, random comment–have you seen any polls on the SC public’s opinion of the stimulus debate? All I can find is this
http://thestatecom.typepad.com/ygatoday/2009/03/poll-stimulus-puts-sanford-approval-rating-at-40.html
Which is OK I guess–do you feel like that’s an authoritative source?
I have only one question ken. This poll was commissioned by the SC Senate Democrat Caucus. Carey Crantford owns the polling company, Crantford & Associates, a company located in Columbia, South Carolina. What is his political affiliation? What were the demographics used for polling? What were the percentages of Democrats vs Republicans vs Independents? What were the questions and how were they presented?
Polls are fine as long as we recognize who is conducting them and understand that polls can be manipulated to produce whatever results we desire. Pollsters are in the same category as economists and weather forecasters.
Remember the old adage? Why were economists created? So someone could make weather forecasters look good.
I may not agree with Mark Sanford on all issues, in fact I don’t, but the comment has been made several times and I believe it to be true that if Sanford could run for another term, he would be re-elected.
37% support Sanford? Hardly a dwindling cadre, eh?
Ken
Here’s a poll conducted by SurvayUSA on the subject:
Poll Results
Sorry about the misspellling of SurveyUSA.
Interesting numbers, Norm. 28% say Sanford shouldn’t accept the money but it’s a 50-46 split on whether the legislature should try to get it if Sanford says no. Makes me think the people are just as concerned about the legislature’s fiscal instability as they are over Sanford’s adherence to his ideology.
Too bad they didn’t ask whether the legislature should exhaust all efforts to make cuts in overhead before targeting teachers and cops.
There is also the issue of separation of powers. If the legislature, in this traditionally legislative state, is allowed by the judiciary to override a discretionary act of the executive, what would that do to the balance of powers for years to co
shou8ld read “years to come.”
What’s this mess with a password?? I can’t even pick one I remember.
Well, on this point I am torn.
I sort of like the registration thing, so that I can keep track of who is participating. Also, someone has promised to show me how to send out alerts to regulars, so I like the idea of collecting y’all’s data so that I’ll be ready to do that when the time comes.
On the other hand, participants may find the process onerous. Do you?
Is there anyway that we can choose our own password? VXKLh2yaHAso is not easily retained in my rather decrepit memory and I’m not sure what I’m protecting by its use.
Registration does keep the troll population down somewhat. Also, if you don’t want to type in your password each time, click the “remember me” prompt when you do log in and then the only thing you have to type in is your user or screen name.
Anyway, when are you going to post a new topic Brad? And if possible, something other than Sanford. Maybe the Somali pirates and the way it was handled; maybe the Final Four; maybe the fact that Laurin Manning has resurfaced (fantastic!)……………..ANYTHING but Sanford!!!!! (for a while at least 🙂 )
When I’m sometimes on another computer, it makes it challenging since I can’t make up a password that I can remember.