Lou Dobbs polls
Jodi and I have taken to watching “Lou Dobbs Tonight” over the last few months. It’s an interesting show, if for no other reason than because he and his staff cover lots of stories that never get picked up by the other outlets.
One thing that’s been a bit droning to me in watching the program is the relentless focus on the “broken borders” (ie – illegal immigration). It’s an interesting topic, and certainly the appalling handling of it currently is something to be quite concerned about. They spend a significant part of each show talking about this one issue.
Clearly this is because it resonates with a large part of the shows regular viewers. This is regularly borne out by the poll results at the end of the show, but this one from last Wednesday was so funny (scary?) that I had to snap a screenshot of it:
I mean, come on… no surprise that the average Lou Dobbs viewer is against additional spending for the war in Iraq. But a 5:1 result against both “Medical Research” and “Rebuilding the Gulf Coast”??
Fixing the “broken borders” is very important, but it’s clear that the (admittedly small sampling of) 3040 voters at the time I snapped this view are living in a fantasy world!
