Archive for the ‘Poll Results’ Category
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
A just-released survey by the Pew Center shows that although Americans are paying "a great deal of attention" to the London bomb plot and other Middle East developments, most remain unchanged in their support for Israel and their assessment of George Bush's performance. Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said they ...
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
It turns out that in at least one respect, George Bush has followed through on his promise to be a uniter and not a divider.
The New York Times is reporting that 51 governers have united to protest planned legislation that would allow the President to call out the National Guard ...
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Sunday, August 6th, 2006
"There is something very sinister to my mind in this Messopotamian entanglement. Week after week and month after month for a long time we shall have a continuance of this miserable, wasteful, sporadic warfare marked from time to time certainly by minor disasters and cuttings off of troops and agents, ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
65% of Americans think that their children will NOT be better off than themselves.
58% don't think the Iraq War will come to a successful conclusion for the US.
27% think the US is headed in the right direction.
81% do not think that things will get better for a long time.
53% think ...
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Not surprising, but 31% of Dems think the Iraq War is our Nations top problem with 22% of the general population saying the same. The Economy came in at 2nd with 14% saying it is their biggest concern. Some stragglers put the following as their top concern; morality, ...
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
In reading the recent AP-poll I came across the term persuadable voters.
The term struck me as being a truth, yet not a desirable truth. I began to think that we should all be persuadable voters, and it is a sad day when we monitor such a statistic. In an ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
A recent study by the Pew Research Center posts an interesting question - do democrats have a God problem?
The role of conservative evangelicals in the last presidential election is no secret. In a generally close contest, they turned out in droves and voted on their bread & butter issues - ...
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
From the Cox News Service, 6/29/06:
"WASHINGTON - The United States is losing its fight against terrorism and the Iraq war is the biggest reason why, a majority of American terrorism and national security experts has concluded.
One participant in the survey, a former CIA official who described himself as a conservative ...
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
According to a Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Poll, most countries think we are more of a destablizing force in the Mid-East than Iran pursuing nuclear weapons. Ouch!
_Favorable opinions of the United States continue to fall, with sharp declines in Spain, Turkey and ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
The Council on Foreign Relations just published results of a poll showing, among other things, that 55% of Americans now say they worry a lot about our dependence on foreign countries for oil, and 90% said they see it as important to national security for us to become less dependent ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Environment, Gonzo's Grab Bag, Homeland Security, Middle East, Poll Results, Science | 10 Comments »
