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12/29/2003 Archived Entry: "At least a few Americans are waking up."
At least a few Americans are waking up.
I just got this in my email from and organization called RetroPoll. Interesting - seems people are clearing their heads of the ThugCo propaganda line.
At least one in three Americans believe that George W. Bush should face impeachment for misleading the public and Congress about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction to create support for war on Iraq. This is a new finding from a national survey conducted by the Retro Poll organization between October 29 and November 12. The actual proportion supporting impeachment was 40% but with a margin of error of plus or minus 8%, 1 in 3 remains a conservative population estimate. "We are seeing a rising tide of public anger that no one is paying attention to", said Dr. Marc Sapir, Retro Poll's Director.Currently 47% of those polled know that Saddam's Iraq had no connection to the 9/11 attacks, up from 36% in a Retro Poll last April. Of that 47% who are now clear on this fact, 52% favored impeachment. Even more dramatic was the strength of support for impeachment among those who know that the Al Qaeda-Saddam connection was also a media-government fabrication, based on little evidence. Of the still small 32% who know that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were never partners a whopping 73% favor impeachment and 78% think the U.S. should not have invaded Iraq. (54% of the total sample said the U.S. should not have invaded Iraq which is consistent with recent findings of major polling organizations).
Replies: 8 people speak up
Dude,
Post that to the Bartcop forum, they'd LOVE to hear that news!
Tony B.
Posted by monkeyfister @ 12/29/2003 08:13 PM NY
So how do you impeach the media; they are as least as guilty. But to the point, bush should be impeched, and maybe a national poll would bring this idea to the starting gate. It would at least show the politians that there is public support and give them the balls to act on sponsering a Bill to Impeach.
Posted by Bb @ 12/29/2003 09:15 PM NY
All I gotta say is, the questioning of that poll is horrendously biased. Also, although they did manage to get a good statistical sampling, they only had 158 responses so the margin of error will be enormous. Furthermore, the answer they want is almost always the second one, which tends to give that response an upward boost in the results.
Finally, take a look at this question:
20. Do you support or reject the USA Patriot Act authorizing government agents to enter your home and otherwise investigate you without cause, recording and copying any materials they wish to, and never telling you?
How many people do you think are honestly going to say Yes to that question?
Anyway, I agree with the vast majority of the positions aimed at in the poll, and am probably far more leftist than the authors, but shoddy polling just lowers our ability to complain about biased polls in the mass media.
Posted by gleam @ 12/29/2003 09:17 PM NY
bu...bu...but Gleam.... that's the law now... so should they have changed the wording so they would get so,e yes votes?
Posted by bayard @ 12/29/2003 09:31 PM NY
but how can you say such things against our popular war time president?
Posted by derek g @ 12/29/2003 11:23 PM NY
Actually, it doesn't impact our ability to complain at all. "Lou Dobbs' polls have a consistent, implicit pro-Bush bias." See? Still works.
Posted by exorcise the executive @ 12/29/2003 11:41 PM NY
Gleam,
Actually, I think that's RetroPoll's point. They take polls which have been taken already and re-ask the questions.
They want to prove that depending upon how questions are asked, you can get very different results from the 'straight' polling organizations.
Posted by editor @ 12/30/2003 12:04 AM NY
Much as some of us would love to see Preznit Chickenhawk impeached, it won't happen as long as the the Repugs control Congress -- and they will apparently control Congress for a good long time to come, thanks to gerrymandering and Diebold.
Posted by Generik @ 12/30/2003 03:47 AM NY
