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Originally Posted by downquark1
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The key weakness in that speech was the wildly different assessments used to define 'Liberal'. In arriving at a 'Liberal rating'
for Edwards and Kerry, an undisclosed scale by which their Senate voting records could be judged was used. This resulted in apparently high overall scores, in the 80s and 90s percentage wise. But, in assessing whether the American public considers itself Liberal, the simple question 'do you consder yourself to be a Liberal' was used. This is totally unscientific, because you have no 'control' questions to establish what the person asked understands by the word 'Liberal'. This makes any attempt to use this data to show the Democrat candidates as out of step with public opinon completely meaningless.