[Grovenet] Interesting poll --

Thu May 11 09:08:13 PDT 2006

I've learned not to count my chickens before
they've hatched, especially after the last two
presidential elections, but it appears that we
may be in for a change this November, and if we
do make a change, there will be investigations
into the excesses of what has become the
Republican approach to government: the top down
team approach. 

Every day brings new evidence of how this works.
Today it's the refusal to give clearance to
investigators from the justice dept to look at
the files in the NSA on domestic spying:

http://tinyurl.com/qr5p7

And today we have another one, as the phone
companies cooperate with NSA to harvest data
about ordinary Americans phone calls:

http://tinyurl.com/nzxb6

Arlen Spector, (R-Pa)represents the guy who just
won't tow the line. People like him always seem
to appear when things get really outrageous.

It's nice that people who voted for Bush and are
unable to see what's going on have a place to go.
Everyone needs a place to go, even if it's FOX.

--- Geri <ggsteele at gte.net> wrote:

> [ from http://tinyurl.com/fht3q :]
> 
> May 11, 2006
> 
> 2nd OpEdNews/Zogby People's Poll; Censure, Bush
> Lies, Stolen Election .....
> 
> by Rob Kall,  http://www.opednews.com
> 
> . . . . . . . .
> 
> "The 2004 Election Was Stolen. That's the
> opinion of a majority of viewers of every news
> network except Fox News viewers.  (See article
> excerpt** at the end of this --  Geri)  We've
> devoted a whole article to this, exploring who
> the Fox viewers are. 
> 
> "Electronic voting: 10% support electronic
> only. 87% want paper or electronic with paper. 
> 
> "63% disagree that the president has the right
> to use military force against Iran without the
> support of congress. 32% agree. 
> 
> "66% agree that a woman should have the right
> to chose an abortion. 28% oppose. 
> 
> "72% agree that health insurance should cover
> birth control pills (it's usually easier to get
> health insurance to pay for an abortion than
> birth control pills.) 22% disagree, and don't
> want health insurance to pay for birth control
> pills. (This is the real agenda of many
> anti-abortion pro-lifers. They want to end
> women's control of their bodies at all levels.)
> If you take the 28% opposing abortion and
> calculate the 22% who oppose coverage of birth
> control pills, that works out to 79% of
> anti-abortion activists also oppose birth
> control pill coverage by insurers. 
> 
> "53% want oil companies to be subjected to a
> windfall profits tax. 38% oppose the tax.
> 
> "65% support embryonic stem cell research. 26%
> oppose the research.
> 
> "56% say congress should bring back taxes to
> the top two percent of income earners. 
> 
> "72% support election financing requiring that
> all eligible candidates should get a fixed
> amount of money to spend on their campaigns to
> prevent influence buying. 22% support allowing
> candidates to raise asmuch money as they want
> from individuals, industry and corporations.
> 
> "52% say Bush LIED to so that we would go to
> war with Iraq. 45% say he was given faulty
> intelligence and did not intentionally mislead.
> 
> 
> "50% are satisfied with the investigation of
> the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. 50%
> are not satisfied or unsure, and believe there
> were other possible questions and explanations
> of the attack and collapse of the world trade
> center and that further investigation is
> needed. 
> 
> "47% support Censure of George W. Bush-- 19%
> for misleading us into war and 28% for illegal
> use of NSA spying. 46% oppose censure.
> 
> "49% support congress starting an investigation
> into vice president Dick Cheney that could lead
> to impeachment procedings. 46% Oppose it. 
> 
> "We are waiting on further crosstab analysis of
> the data. We believe that we will find that if
> you pull out Fox viewers, the rest of America
> has a far different view of America and the
> Bush Administration
> 
> "More to come. This poll was run May 9th
> through 10th, in Pennsylvania, by the Zogby
> organization. 
> 
> "Methodology statement from Zogby:
> Zogby International conducted interviews of 707
> likely voters online. Panelists who have agreed
> to participate in Zogby polls online were
> invited to participate in the survey. The
> online poll ran from 5/9/06 through 5/10/06.
> The margin of error is +/- 3.8 percentage
> points. Margins of error are higher in
> sub-groups. Slight weights were added to party,
> age, race, religion, and gender to more
> accurately reflect the population. 
> 
> "More detailed Statistics from the poll will be
> posted later today.
> 
>  Copyright © OpEdNews, 2002-2006
> 
> ----------------------------------
> 
> 
> **Article excerpt:  [This whole article can be
> found at --
>                              
> http://tinyurl.com/hgkgl ]
> 
>      "But let's look at the demographics on
> this question. Of the people who watch Fox news
> as their primary source of TV news, one half of
> one percent believe it was stolen and 99%
> believe it was legitimate. Among people who
> watched ANY other news source but FOX, more
> felt the election was stolen than legitimate.
> The numbers varied dramatically:
> 
>      "Here are the stats by network listed as
> first choice by respondent and whether the
> respondent thought the election was stolen or
> legitimate.
> 
>            Network   Stolen   Legitimate
>               ABC        56 %      32 %
>               CBS        64 %      31 %
>               CNN        70 %      24 %
>               FOX         0.5 %    99 %
>               MSNBC    65  %     24 %
>               NBC        49  %     43 %
>               Other      56  %     28 %
> 
> ----------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> GroveNet mailing list
> GroveNet at rdrop.com
> http://www.rdrop.com/mailman/listinfo/grovenet
> 