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Re:CEOs beware: Your astronomical salaries may soon cost you... by TeMPOraL on Saturday October 17, 2015 @05:19AM (#10403851)
RE value of polls, there's this quote I love:

"[A]s of 2010, only 34% of people polled strongly supported letting homosexuals serve in the military, but half again as many — a full 51% — expressed that level of support for letting ‘gays and lesbians’ serve in the military. Ever since reading that I’ve worried about how many important decisions are being made by the 17% of people who support gays and lesbians but not homosexuals."

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/15/trouble-walking-down-th...

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Re:CEOs beware: Your astronomical salaries may soon cost you... by crdoconnor on Saturday October 17, 2015 @05:31AM (#10403883)
There's a similar gulf between people who support "more government assistance for people on low incomes" (popular) and people who support "more welfare" (unpopular).

I think certain words are given negative/positive associations by the media and those overtones have a lot more impact if you're only spending 4 seconds per question than if you're really thinking about it.

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Re:CEOs beware: Your astronomical salaries may soon cost you... by tsotha on Saturday October 17, 2015 @06:28AM (#10403979)
>There's a similar gulf between people who support "more government assistance for people on low incomes" (popular) and people who support "more welfare" (unpopular).

Those are not the same thing, though. Someone with a low income has a job, presumably.

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Re:CEOs beware: Your astronomical salaries may soon cost you... by crdoconnor on Saturday October 17, 2015 @08:56AM (#10404254)
Actually it was "government assistance for the poor" - not low incomes - that rated highly on polls, which presumably includes people without jobs. My mistake.
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