Poll shows Americans prefer Obama’s new brand of patriotism over McCain’s more traditional style
August 20th, 2008 at 03:07pm Pat Cunningham
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A scientific survey released today shows that most Americans are fed up with politicians exploiting patriotism “in a cheap and empty way” and prefer Barack Obama’s framing of patriotism as activism over John McCain’s more traditional approach of honoring the nation’s past.
Yet, while majorities consider both presidential candidates to be patriotic, McCain leads Obama on that score by 18 percentage points.
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1. Bukowski | August 20th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Doesn’t surprise me. In 2000 and 2004 polls indicated that most Americans when asked about specific issues supported positions more closely associated with the Democrats than Republicans but when asked who they supported they went for the Repubs. We don’t vote on issues anymore it seems, we vote on personalities and emotions. It’s those old effective associative propaganda techniques again, they’ll do it everytime!
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