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[quote=Anonymous]While I don't think that Arlingtonians are necessarily politically open-minded (myself being an Arlingtonian) one comment on the article really keys in on the bunk from this survey:

This is an...interesting...methodology.

To do this assessment, PredictWise first partnered with Pollfish to run a nationwide poll of 2,000 adults to capture people’s feelings about the other party. The survey asked how people would feel if a close family member married a Republican or a Democrat; how well they think the terms selfish, compassionate, or patriotic describe Democrats versus Republicans; and other questions designed to capture sentiments about political differences.

Based on the survey results, Tobias Konitzer, the co-founder of PredictWise, investigated which demographic characteristics seemed to correlate with partisan prejudice. He found, for example, that age, race, urbanicity, partisan loyalty, and education did coincide with more prejudice (but gender did not). In this way, he created a kind of profile of contemporary partisan prejudice.

So really, Arlington shares a similar demographic profile to people who are "prejudiced" against people of the other political party. It's reasonably possible that not a single Arlington resident was actually surveyed. [/quote]

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