Do I have positive feelings about socialism?

So I got this in the mail today...

So many questions popped into my head. The first one being "what is socialism?". I'm pretty confident that I'm a well-rounded, well-educated person and I literally cannot give you a good definition of socialism. It's been a minute since I took any kind of history class and I'm pretty sure I never took any sort of political science class. 

I Googled the details of the Gallup Poll used to create this statistic to see what the actual questions were and found this article from Gallup. Scrolling to the bottom (where they hide the good stuff) I found that this was a phone survey. I don't know about any of you, but I do NOT answer unknown numbers and I absolutely do NOT answer survey questions over the phone, but they managed to find 1,500 people who do such things. 

If you click the link "View survey methodology, complete question..."in the box at the bottom of the article you'll get to a pdf that gives a few more details about the survey.

I'll save you the time and energy...take a look at the one question they're basing this "fact" on...

I wasn't able to find any documentation in the survey methodology of how they determined which respondent identified with the different political parties. So, after reading the article and methodology, I'm struggling to figure out how exactly they came up with the statistic they plastered on a high gloss flyer and sent to goodness knows how many households in Georgia. (Surely, they simply asked people which political party they identify with, but I'd feel better to see it spelled out in the methodology.)

Back to defining socialism - I read the definition on Encyclopedia Britannica's website. In this case I agree with the portion of the Gallup article that states:

Instead, socialism today seems to embody sets of programs by which the government helps regulate and in some instances run and pay for social programs focused on basic population needs in health, education, housing, and employment.

I think this is NOT the definition that this particular ad is basing its alarm on. Based on the above definition from the article, I'm all for socialism. Based on the historical definition of socialism, I'm not so sure. I am certain, however, that asking people "off the tops of their heads" to say whether they thought positively of things like capitalism and socialism is a bad idea. Furthermore, plastering this vague statistic on a flyer and sending out all over the state is simply saying to Georgia citizens..."We don't think you're smart enough to think through this. You'll buy any statistic we throw out there."