Posted on 01/15/2006 9:42:01 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
A new Zogby poll indicates a majority of Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval.
Respondents were asked if they agreed or disagreed with the following statement:
"If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
The poll found that 52 percent agreed, 43 percent disagreed and 6 percent said they didn't know or declined to answer.
"The American people are not buying Bush's outrageous claim that he has the power to wiretap American citizens without a warrant," said Bob Fertik, co-founder of the left-leaning group AfterDowningStreet.org which commissioned the survey. "Americans believe terrorism can be fought without turning our own government into Big Brother."
The poll interviewed 1,216 adults in the U.S. from Jan 9-12, and has a 2.9 percent margin of error.
As one might expect, the respondents' political affiliation played a role in their answer, as 66 percent of Democrats favored impeachment, as did 59 percent of Independents, but only 23 percent of Republicans.
One month ago, one-third of Americans polled by Rasmuseen Reports said they believe Bush should be impeached.
Who cares if it helped Bush? I don't take much stock in polls run by biased organizations, so I exact my own revenge.
Do you have a problem with this, and if so, what is it?
Not really, as long as you don't complain that polls are "inaccurate." I was just wondering if you had a specific goal.
My specific goal is to make sure that polls are inaccurate.
Votes matter, polls don't. I'm sure 2004 proved that as well as any election.
Misleading question... and I'd dearly love to see the internals!
This is a wildly stupid poll. Zogby "forgot" to add the fact that Bush was pursuing a national security intelligence investigation, and other Presidents have claimed the same authority.
The same Zogby who had Kerry in an electoral landslide?
Yeah right, keep trying to sway public opinion with this drivel.
just heard on O'reilly the poll was paid for by Afterdowningstreet.org
Well that explains the way the question was asked to get the poll results they wanted
Exactly.
Zogby lost all credibility years ago. The polls he puts out is so laughable in their inaccuracies and bias...
Zogby is an arab terrorist supporter and a liar.
Is that true?
That's what he said. He had a caller talk about the poll. After a commercial O'Reilly came back on the air and said what they didn't tell you is that Afterdowning commissioned the poll.
Zogby poll: Majority supports impeaching Bush for wiretapping
WASHINGTON, D.C. — By a margin of 52 to 43 percent, citizens want Congress to impeach President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of Pres. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
http://www.zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=12528
At least I haven't seen the results of this poll blasted on the headline news. Maybe even the MSM knows that this is silly. Many other polls have said that the President should have the right to protect us from terror.
That's how Americans feel. Period.
I doubt whether 52% of Americans even know about the "wiretapping" issue.
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