Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Fox analyst and pollster Douglas Schoen makes the argument that Democrats are making a costly mistake by embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement.
“Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn’t represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse,” Schoen writes. “Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence.”
After polling 200 protestors based in Zuccotti Park, Schoen concludes that it is “a deep commitment to left-wing policies: opposition to free-market capitalism and support for radical redistribution of wealth, intense regulation of the private sector, and protectionist policies to keep American jobs from going overseas” that binds the movement together.
