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Title: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: Dan B on April 03, 2008, 12:13:32 AM

This is the dumbest statistic ever.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080403/pl_nm/usa_politics_rockers_dc

Title: Re: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: todd on April 03, 2008, 12:27:29 AM

old white guys vote republican? this is shocking news indeed

Title: Re: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: Beth on April 03, 2008, 11:49:38 AM

"People are clearly engaged by this election, even rockers."

 ???

Title: Re: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: yesno on April 03, 2008, 11:50:13 AM

What are the mods thinking these days?

Title: Re: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: Stupornaut on April 03, 2008, 12:42:38 PM

Quote from: yesno on April 03, 2008, 11:50:13 AM

What are the mods thinking these days?

They think both parties have drifted too far to the fringes.

Wait, is "mods" short for moderates?

Title: Re: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: Chris L on April 03, 2008, 12:45:07 PM

Thankfully this board is full of "mockers."

Title: Re: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: yesno on April 03, 2008, 12:47:17 PM

This rocker looks like the Gorch:

(http://www.stthomasu.ca/~pmccorm/research/rockershangout.jpg)

I imagine Linus would have been a mod.

Title: Re: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: Julie on April 03, 2008, 12:51:02 PM

I don't think it was a good study design, so the results don't mean anything. Thank God about that, too, because what if all of the Zepplin fans rocked the vote?!!

Title: Re: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: Julie on April 03, 2008, 12:55:36 PM

http://www.jacobsmedia.com/articles/tech4politics.asp

Title: Re: Male Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: Julie on April 03, 2008, 01:03:24 PM

"This is a web poll, and cannot replicate all radio listeners or even all Rock radio listeners. As with all Internet-based research studies, the results reflect only those who chose to participate."

They forgot to put this in the article. And also they seem to imply that the classic rock listeners are male, which is not what their study looked at. The article bends the truth even further, saying male fans of led zepplin. Journalists who write this kind of bullshit should go shop for a coffin, and so should the people who publish it.

Title: Re: Math Rock fans likely to vote in Republican
Post by: Laurie on April 03, 2008, 02:05:26 PM

^^That's what I thought the subject said.