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the G-man said:
I hate to pull a "Ray Adler," but a google search of the phrase "republican chickenhawks" returned 10,800 hits. That's a lot of liberals advancing the "chickenhawk" argument.

A similar search shows that only about 500 of those hits involved "Michael Moore."

So if you want to know who these liberals are, it appears that there are literally thousands of them.



Your research methodology is sorely lacking. Many of those hits are in opposition to the idea and represent multiple postings by the same individuals. So, if you want to be anywhere near accurate, you'd need to weed out the multiple postings and eliminate those instances of Right Wing posters in opposition to the idea. Then you could say that X percent of liberals that post on the internet (how do we get the denominator for this fraction?) agree with Michael Moore's take on the subject. You'd really need to do more than that but this would put you in the ballpark. It would be improper to generalize the findings to the entire population anyway.

If you're a clever programmer and do nothing else you should be able to accomplish the task in a couple of weeks. Enjoy reading and quantifying all that open-end data!

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