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Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report On The Transformation Of The American Dream (2014)

by John Zogby(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1299169503 (ISBN13: 9781299169500)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Random House

review 1: This book should serve as a warning to any pollster who likes to extrapolate big predictions from his data. Is was written before the financial crisis and the rise of the Tea Party. Still, I think Zogby has done some valuable work and I do agree with him that there are reasons for optimism about the future of the U.S. I do think though that he makes too many sweeping conclusions and time did not prove him right on everything. He does, however, say that Barack Obama was the ideal candidate to get elected in 2008. That much he was right on! I also wish that like so many pollsters he would quit grouping everyone into "generations" and make assumptions from there. People born in the early '60's are not "baby boomers" who are influenced by Vietnam War poli... moretics.
review 2: Should have been called "The Way We Were." Poll result after poll result of the way that we think. Some very interesting. Most all very dry. Good parts included the one that showed voter demographics coincided better with were we shopped (i.e. Walmart shoppers overwhelmingly conservative) than where we live (blue state, red state). Showed some interesting trends, nothing earth-shattering though. less

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