Gallup Poll of Iraq: Iraqis Consider Their Nation's Future

Gallup News Service ^ | April 29, 2004 | Richard Burkholder

[RWR8189]

Gallup, in partnership with CNN and USA Today, conducted 3,444 70-minute, in-home, in-person interviews with a nationally representative sample of Iraqis in 350 separate locations throughout the country in late March and early April 2004. The resulting data offer a wealth of insight on the current climate of opinion among Iraqis nationwide. Following is the second in a series of Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing articles discussing the findings. (See Related Items.)

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[RWR8189]

Gallup Ping

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[crusty codger]

Seems to me the moderates of both sects will prevail.

[Diddle E. Squat]

If I read it correctly, the media headlines for the next week will be 55% of Iraqi's have an unfavorable opinion of the US.

I am sure it is just a coincidence that Gallup/USA Today/CNN chose to release this negative poll on the same day that Bush and Cheney met with the 9/11 Commission...

[BCrago66]

I think the Kurds are about 1/3 of the country, and they love the US - yet Gallup didn't poll them. Nor did they post a disclaimer stating that poll results are scewed because they didn't poll Kurdish areas.

I guess Gallup thinks that because the Kurds are not Arabs, they are not real Iraqis. Saddam thought the same thing.

[Steve_Seattle]

I noticed they ommitted the Kurd areas, which in the USA Today poll were almost universally pro-USA - about 98% favorable versus 2% unfavorable. The Kurds seem to be living in a separate universe from the Sunnis and Shi'ites.

[gilliam]

Look how many want a democracy vs an Islamic state!!!

[bitt]

who, in your opinion, should lead the United States in the next four years to help Iraq become an independent and secure country?

Kurds/Shite/Educated Rabble/Sunni/ForeignTerrorists

BUSH 99% 1%

KERRY 3% 97%

* 2% of the Kurds/Shite/Educated responded that they admired JF'nK's outrageous ability to get away with grift, lies and videotape, and thus were compelled to go for "the tall one with the yellow flower on his snow suit".

[RWR8189]

I'm pretty sure they did poll Kurds.

This is an excerpt from the article:

Furthermore, America's nationwide favorability ratings are inflated by the uniquely positive assessments provided by residents of Kurdish Sulaymaniyah, a province that was effectively self-governing for more than a decade before last spring's invasion. Within Sulaymaniyah, fully 96% give America a very (74%) or somewhat (22%) favorable assessment; outside the Kurdish northeast, just one in every eight Iraqis rate the United States positively (9% somewhat favorable, 3% very favorable)..

And this is from what I posted yesterday here.

[Savage Rider]

I don't really care about these polls. It was taken among people who were too much like sheep to get rid of Saddam by themselves. This poll tells me there are a bunch of ungrateful bitchers and moaners in Iraq.

[cookcounty]

Only 10% said they are worse off!

If it was switched around, does anybody believe the headline wouldn't be full of doom and gloom and Blame-Bush shreiking?

But they can't say anything positive in the headline, because it violates the Pressititute Brotherhood's Semi-Secret Code of Conduct which states that, and I quote, "Thou shalt not speak positively of so-called President Bush."

[cookcounty]

"...a system based on the muslim consept of shura (mutual consultation)" Now that is a bad poll. It'sasking in the US "would you favor a system based on truth, justice, kindness, generosity and fairness" and then saying that those people didn't choose democracy.

[not2worry]

Baghdad Bob now working for Gallop/CNN/USA Today?

They had to have an Arab speaking pollster, perhaps they outsourced the work to a call center in Iran.

It would be interesting to know how they take these polls. How the questions are structured......"Hello, Uday speaking here, Dad wants to know if you are better off now then you were a year ago? By the way, I noticed your daughter is going to school now....how old is she?" One more question and I'll let you go."

I suspect these polls are very slanted and wonder if Jason Blair isn't heading up the efforts on behalf of the MSM.