Greg Hollingsworth

I don't normally read the Daily Kos, there's nothing particularly wrong with the DK, I just tend to prefer to get my media from less biased sources (and no, that doesn't mean Fox News.) Today, while adding Newsmakers to my follow list on social|median (which is a great social news site for those of you who haven't tried it out yet) I came across a link to a DK article written by an Obama supporter who had stumbled upon a McCain/Palin meetup in a Tampa Bay-area Starbucks. I don't really want to get into the article itself in this post, as to be honest, it had nothing to do with why I'm writing this. No, it was the poll at the bottom of the page that got my blood a boilin'. I've brought it here, in all it's glory (as well as it's dubiousness). [caption id="attachment_747" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Daily Kos Political Poll"][/caption] I'm honestly not sure if should be offended by the options I am presented with, or the fact that anyone would vote on such a ridiculous, useless survey that simply reinforces negative stereotypes. This poll is shameful, I don't know if I can put it any other way without devolving into obscenities that I try to keep out of my posts. As I have tried to make it clear in my recent posts, I do not support either McCain or Obama (nor Barr, McKinney or anyone else at this point for that matter). I am not writing this article because it amkes McCain/Palin supporters look bad (which the Dail Kos article certainly does), nor to make Obama supporters look elitist and condescending (which the poll does without any help from me). The poll bothered me because it validates in Daily Kos readers all the qualities that the articles purports to display negatively on McCain supporters. This poll shows simply that DK readers (or at least a vast majority of them) are judgemental, ignorant, and very easy to sway. I know many, many intelligent, confident, assured, accepting individuals who support McCain (my father for one) and to assume that this small group from Tampa is representative of the larger makeup of McCain/Palin supporters is narrow-minded and honestly, naive. I am not sure who comes up with th polls that run on the Daily Kos, but as someone who takes this election and the issues our country faces very seriously, I am appalled by the utter hypocrisy and lack of responsibility that a poll like this shows. The odds on me reading the Daily Kos in the future, have suddely become very, very small.