2 Polls Suggest Grim View of Surge (This makes me angry)

The Boston Globe ^ | September 10, 2007 | By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff

[Alberta's Child]

Since nobody has a freaking clue what “victory” means, that question is meaningless.

[afortiori]

This is classic Boston Globe playbook:

Publish a poll one news cycle before a story will break in an attempt to shift perception and opinion.

In the past it’s been state sale taxes on service, gay marriage or some other pet liberal cause.

[Blue State Insurgent]

Bush couldn’t turn the Sunnis against Al Qaeda, only Al Qaeda itself could do that after wearing out their welcome. Sorry, but there was no way we could rush this, the Sunnis had to come to us first and now the have.

As for leaving Iraq forget about it. We will never abandon the Iraqis.

And please, don't use the words president and Hillary in the same sentence.

[Blue State Insurgent]

“Significant progress” is defined as “We’re kicking ass!”

[Blue State Insurgent]

Victory means what it has always meant: Peace.

[ZULU]

“Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, told CNN’s “Late Edition” that he has an open mind about the report.”

Arelen Spector has such an open mind that his brains have fallen out.

I would no sooner trust a poll commissioned by the Washington (Com)Post or the New York Slimes than I would a promise by the North Koreans or the Iranians.

The pro-Iraqi War forces should run an advertisement with two photos - one of General Petraeus and one of that fat, unshaved, unkempt maggot Michael Moore with the caption
“Who would YOU trust?”

[SuziQ]

Polls mean nothing since there have been almost nothing be negative stories about surge in the press for the last two weeks. What else are readers of newpapers and magazines or consumers of the electronic press supposed to say, since that’s all they’ve heard?

[Condor51]

That ^&%$%ing Lantos needs what we called my the old Chi hood ‘an attitude adjustment’. He pretty much called Petraeus a liar. What a disgusting pig.

(Can we bring back Dueling? Just for a year or so, that would do it.)

[bilhosty]

They may be turned against the Al quada. But, I just saw a poll that says the majority of the Iraqi people believe it is all right to attack coalition forces. There are limits to my wilingness to not abandon. Sorry!

[BlessedBeGod]

Now, this says the opposite:

Another Day, Another Poll, Another Disappointment for the Anti-War Left

[ricks_place]

CBS/New York Times "Independent/Unbiased" poll workers
find 45 percent of respondents believe the surge had no impact
while 12 percent believe it had made the situation worse.

Responses from expired respondents are considered invalid and are omitted from the statistics.