Poll: Most undecided voters say use of 9/11 images in Bush ads was inappropriate

SFGate.com ^ | 3/12/04 | Will Lester

[BlackRazor]

Undecided voters, by a 2-1 margin, feel it was inappropriate for President Bush's re-election campaign to use images from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in a television commercial, according to a poll released Friday.

Among those who have not yet decided who they will support in the November presidential election, or say they could change their minds, 52 percent thought the ad was inappropriate while 27 percent said it was appropriate, according to the results of the National Annenberg Election Survey.

[BlackRazor]

I wonder how many of those polled actually saw the ads in question, and how many were just parroting what they heard in the media.

[Paradox]

This was nothing other than a gigantic push poll. The democrats "pushed" the notion that it was inappropriate, then the media did the polls... what a crock.

[Semper Paratus]

If you sampled undecideds before all the BS and showed them the ad and asked the same question you would get 80-90% that would be fine with it.

[kevao]

Q: Was the inappropriate use of 9/11 images inappropriate?

[Williams]

Either way, the undecided voters are dips. Exactly the kinds of fools who give the democrats what they want. these geniuses would preclude the president from running for reelection based on the most significant event of his presidency, and give Kerry a free pass.

I think the solution is even stronger ads that feature Bush and 9-11. His hearing about it, the actions he took, his rally at the WTC, the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns. I can think of nothing that would evoke a stronger emotional response.

[JennysCool]

If they're undecided, how could they decide?

[clintonh8r]

If you're undecided at this point you don't own a brain cell.

[rintense]

What a shame. 9-11 has already been erased from the minds of some Americans. You'd think the events in Spain would have reminded them what the world is up against.

[cinFLA]

Annenberg Public Policy Center - Courtesy of that infamous right wing University of Penn.

[doug from upland]

Sorry, Will Lester, we are not buying it. The Bush team will not buy it. They don't put their finger up in the wind. They do what is right. You and your RAT pals are not going to scare them away from using the ads you fear most.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

My daughter worked in the WTC when they tried to blow it up in 1993.

Luckily she changed jobs a month later.

My next door neighbor was not so lucky on Sept. 11.

He worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.

I hope the President uses the images of 9-11 over and over and over and over..........

Anyone critical of the President's adds, especially family members of those murdered on that day, are nothing but "whores of death".

Thank God we now have a leader who takes his oath of office seriously!!!!!!!!!!!

[Caleb1411]

I wonder how many of those polled actually saw the ads in question, and how many were just parroting what they heard in the media.

You mean these media?

[goodnesswins]

I wish they would show what REALLY happened on 9-11....the pictures that can occasionally be FOUND here.....that's what I wish the Republican's would run. PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN, AND.....many NEVER SAW what really happened, because it all got sanitized in the major media!

[Owen]

This year, undecideds are not going to make the difference. There are too few of them. The election will be won on GOTV and turnout.

Volunteer in battleground states, even if you don't live there.

[John Lenin]

If it says so in San Francisco Gate it must be true. Not!

[cajungirl]

Interesting, those most offended were black, liberal and had incomes under 35k,,the arbiters of the nations taste it seems, those who know what should be offensive. Those who gave us gangsta rap, etc. Really, this must have been a push poll.

[ZULU]

AP Polls = BS

The only way Bush will win to go after Kerry - HARD. AP knows this so they'll continue to drag out bogus polls.

Bush should run another series of ads featuring people who lost relatives in 9-1-1 who SUPPORT Bush for re-lection.

That will REALLY stick in their craw.

I also like Hannity's idea of an add featuring Kerry debating Kerry on all the issues he's flip-flopped over.

[Publius6961]

In San Francisco? Pervert Paradise? The joke of California?

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[dirtboy]

This is actually a very interesting poll that speaks well for how Bush is holding on to his base. First of all, this is undecided voters. Now, what if almost all GOP voters are decided while a fair number of Dems are still undecided? The poll of course is going to skew well to the left. IMO this means that Bush is in much better shape than the national polls give him credit for.

[Moby Grape]

If someone is "undecided" in today's political climate, they are being labeled by the WRONG name....DUMBA** is a more appropriate title.