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Crucial distinction in the censure question (none / 0)

Note that the Newsweek censure question mentions "warrantless wiretapping" but doesn't specify that American citizens were wiretapped. The ARG poll said this:

Do you favor or oppose the United States Senate passing a resolution censuring President George W. Bush for authorizing wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining court orders?
3/15/06     Favor     Oppose     Undecided
All Adults     46%     44%     10%
Voters     48%     43%       9%
Republicans (33%)     29%     57%     14%
Democrats (37%)     70%     26%       4%
Independents (30%)     42%     47%     11%
Based on 1,100 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of adults nationwide March 13-15, 2006. The theoretical margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points, 95% of the time.

People need to pound on this until someone gets around to doing a new poll with questions specifying that citizens have been wiretapped without a warrant or court supervision of any kind.  A lot of respondents don't know that small detail. Being so informed makes respondents more likely to support censure, I'm sure.


by sean in iowa on Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 07:22:06 PM EST