[TomB]

Another example of how hard it is for the left wing media to get away with anything anymore now that websites such as Free Republic and bloggers are around doing their fact-checking for them.

Actually, the interesting point to this story isn't that the USAToday left out important numbers to the poll to skew it in their favor, it is that this study puts the lie to the charge that Bush has "squandered the good feeling from 9-11 in the international community".

These numbers prove that allegation to be, quite simply, wrong.

[Mister Baredog]

The most important pattern that I see is this: In every single nation for which we have March and May data, the image of the United States improved in that period. In other words, the trend is in our favor. Would you have guessed that from reading the lead paragraph I quoted?

Someone should tell those Pew folks that we don't govern by poll anymore, that was the Clintoon gang.

[LS]

The author probably should know that Nigeria is only about HALF Muslim, and that it is witnessing the most rapid surge in Christianity in the WORLD.

In 1999 or 2000, Reinhard Boennke held an evangelical meeting there attended by six million people in one week! (this is the largest "revival" in human history, eclipsing Pope John Paul's largest meetings) and 1.6 MILLION made professions of faith in writing---not just an "altar call." He had more than one million present on one night alone.

[TomB]

"while-I'm-here-I-might-as-well-bump" bump

[TomB]

I've seen this poll mentioned in a few news stories and also quoted by the anti-war paleo wing of FR in the past few days. Here is a good discussion of the numbers.