The poll (PDF) from Democracy Corps finds that 55 percent of likely voters believe that the word "socialist" describes the president either "well" or "very well."Personally, I'm convinced of two things:
Peyton Craighill, a senior associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a firm that does polling for Democracy Corps, attributed the surprising number to voters' impatience with the lagging economy.
"It probably has to do with the fact that people are very unhappy with the dire economy and the fact that the budget deficit is quite large," Craighill said. "People who don't like the man are going to use any label they can to ding him, even if they don't think he's a socialist in the vein of the Soviet Union or China."
June's poll was the first Democracy Corps survey to ask respondents if they consider the President to be a socialist, but Craighill said the monthly poll will continue to ask the question in the future. "It's something we want to track on future reporting for how this might relate to the Tea Party movement," he said. Craighill expects Democracy Corps to publish a report specific to the Tea Party movement in a few weeks.
One, Americans wouldn't know an actual socialist from one of those styrofoam pool floats, they are calling him "socialist" because the word a lot of the people want to use to describe him is not polite to use in public. It's a code phrase, like "young buck", "welfare queen", and John McCain's famous debate phrase "that one." They know it. You know it. I know it. Let's be honest here.
Two, I'm calling the over/under on that "report specific to the Tea Party movement" on what percentage of them say the word socialist describes Obama well or very well as 90%, proving point one as well as just how ignorant people are about political systems in general.
Obama Derangement Syndrome. It's working all too well. Perhaps the President should consider, you know, doing something about this 9.5% unemployment rate. Like, now.
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