Your response is typical of leftist methods of argument: latch on to a neutral part of my comment, imply that I misunderstand it and incorrectly criticized it,

Your response is typical of leftist methods of argument: latch on to a neutral part of my comment, imply that I misunderstand it and incorrectly criticized it, condescendingly correct me, and ignore the relevant parts of my comment, i.e. the fictional location and politically charged conclusion from which no reasonable inferences may be drawn. In fact, in principle, it's the same flaw in the survey we're discussing, a blatant red herring. It's almost as bad as an exchange like: "Did you stop beating your wife yet?" "I'm not married." "Aha, so you finally stopped!" And it's interesting to note that you created that account solely to make that comment, and it was upvoted 4 times long after the story was fresh on the front page.