I don't even know. So: "Forty percent of people questioned in the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll say they are satisfied with the way democracy is working in this country, with 59 percent saying they are dissatisfied."
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Do they at least explain in what ways it is allegedly "working?"
CNN IS A SOCIALIST
59%? Not quite a supermajority.
BRING ON THE GERONTOCRACY!
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
"Eight in 10 think that government officials are out of touch, influenced by special interests, and mainly concerned with getting re-elected."
Hard to reconcile this view with McCain's stellar, selfless performance at the Summit today.
I've worked in and like policy/politics, and I count several elected politicians as friends. And still I'm curious about who those other 2 out of the 10 are (although, for what it's worth, I'd put less stock in the "out of touch" thing, and my definition of special interests is the groups who support the party I don't like).
Just wait 'til you see the results of the satisfaction poll for our plutocracy.
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Forty percent of American journalists still use conjunctions to distinguish causal, temporal, adversative and concessive relations, with 59% adopting the UK newspaper "with+participial phrase" construction.
Winston Churchill could not be reached for comment.
Please get out of my brain.
I'm dissatisfied with evolution, particularly in terms of our species.
I knew we should have taken that left turn at the Pliocene.
George III vindicated at last.
"the way democracy is working in this country" does not necessarily mean "democracy." THUS THE DISSATISFACTION, duh.
It's unfortunate this poll was most likely conducted over the phone, as I've been waiting to try out the KGB knock-knock joke.
Thank God we live in a nation in which people are free to be told what to do.
I still think we should have monarchies.
(half serious!)
OH OH, vote for me!
They Soviets finally won.