MoveOn ad backfired big time
I think MoveOn's favorables can and will go lower as the race for the White House heats up. Republicans will be running against the organization and Democrats will be squirming instead of openly defending them as Hillary Clinton has shown since the ad hit. She will continue to get hammered on the ad and the group.Twenty-three percent (23%) of Americans approve of an ad run in the New York Times “that referred to General Petraeus as General Betray Us.” A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 58% disapproved. Those figures include 12% who Strongly Approve and 42% who Strongly Disapprove.
Self-identified liberals were evenly divided—45% approve and 39% disapprove. However, only 19% of moderate voters approve while 62% disapprove.
Forty-seven percent (47%) of all adults say that “stunts like the MoveOn.org ad” hurt the cause they believe in. Only 12% believe they help the cause while 17% say there is no impact. Twenty-four percent (24%) are not sure. Again, political liberals are divided with 27% saying they help and 32% taking the opposite view. Fifty percent (50%) of moderates and 57% of conservatives say that these sorts of events hurt the cause the group is trying to promote.
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Twenty-three percent (23%) of American adults have a favorable opinion of MoveOn.org while 39% have an unfavorable opinion. Thirty-eight percent (38%) don’t know enough to have an opinion one way or the other. Survey respondents were asked their opinion of MoveOn.org before the New York Times ad was described.
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Don Surber notes that MoveOn claims that the ad was a fund raising success but adds:
...Right now running against Soros and MoveOn is good politics for Republicans.
One defender of MoveOn commented that well, it raised $1.5 million in the week after the ad. Big deal. MoveOn was founded by liberal billionaires and continues to be funded by billionaires such as convicted insider trader George Soros. What is with liberals and crooked rich guys anyway?
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