FULL ZOGBY POLL re. Terri Schiavo Just Released.

ZOGBY ^ | April 6, 2005 | ZOGBY

[FairOpinion]

Released: April 06, 2005

80%: Non-Terminal Patients Should Not be Denied Food, Water; Three-to-One: Feeding Tube Should Stay in Place When Wishes Unknown; Americans Divided on Intervention by Elected Officials, Christian Defense Coalition / Zogby Poll of Likely Voters Reveals

A poll completed after the controversial death of Terri Schiavo finds that eight-in-ten (80%) likely voters say that a disabled person who is not terminally ill or in a coma, and not being kept alive by life support should not, in the absence of a written directive to the contrary, be denied food and water.  By a three-to-one (44% to 14%) margin, likely voters say that, when there is conflicting evidence on the wishes of a patient, elected officials should order that a feeding tube remain in place.  The survey, conducted by Zogby International on behalf of the Christian Defense Coalition, was conducted March 30 to April 2, 2005 and has a margin of error of +/-3.2 percentage points.

The same poll also finds a majority (56%) agree that Schiavo’s husband Michael should have turned guardianship for the severely-disabled woman over to her parents based on his decision to have a long-term serious relationship with another woman.  By a two-to-one (44% to 24%) margin, with one-in-three (32%) undecided, the survey finds that an incapacitated person should be presumed to want to live in the absence of written instructions such as a “living will.” 

Do you agree or disagree…?	Agree	Disagree	Not sure
It is proper for the federal government to intervene when basic civil rights are being denied?	74	19	8
The representative branch of governments should intervene when the judicial branch appears to deny basic rights to minorities?	57	33	10
Michael Schiavo should turn guardianship of Terri over to her parents, considering he has had a girlfriend for 10 years and has two children with her?	56	35	9
The law should provide exceptions to the right of a spouse to act as the guardian for his or her incapacitated spouse?	46	39	15
It is proper for the federal government to intervene when disabled people are denied food and water by a state court judge’s order?	44	43	13
The representative branch of governments should intervene when the judicial branch appears to deny basic rights to the disabled?	42	48	10
Elected officials should intervene to protect a disabled person’s right to live if there is conflicting testimony concerning removing a feeding tube?	38	54	8
Hearsay be allowed as evidence in the case of determining if a feeding tube should be removed?	31	57	12

Likely voters in the survey are closely divided on a number of other issues, including whether it is proper for the federal government to intervene in a case similar to Schiavo’s.  When asked if it is proper for federal officials to intervene when disabled people are denied food and water by a state court judge, respondents were deadlocked, with 44% favoring such intervention, and 43% opposed.

The survey did find overwhelming consensus, however, when the question turned to government intervention in cases where basic civil rights were being denied.  Three-quarters (74%) of likely voters say that it is proper for the federal government to intervene in such a case; just one-in-five (19%) disagree.

Zogby International conducted interviews of 1019 likely voters nationwide on behalf of the Christian Defense Coalition.  All calls were made from Zogby International headquarters in Utica, N.Y., March 30 through April 2, 2005.  The margin of error is +/-3.2 percentage points. Slight weights were added to region, party, age, race, religion, and gender to more accurately reflect the voting population. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.  

(4/6/2005)
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[FairOpinion]

Earlier articles mentioned a few of the questions, but Zogby just released the full poll on his website.

The first article appeared at Life News.

Zogby Poll: Americans Not in Favor of Starving Terri Schiavo (poll with fair questions)

Well, today people can see all the questions.

When properly informed, and told the truth, people did want Terri to live.

(PS. Sorry for the way the article posted, but I wanted to get the table in, and don't know much html, to have eliminated what wasn't needed.)

[FairOpinion]

When people are told the truth...

Terri PING

[bubbleb]

Thanks, I think more highly of my fellow citizens. Strange how polls results can change depending on how the question is asked. Bet a lot of people thought she was terminal or in a coma.

[Milhous]

Even though the results of this particular poll please me, Zogby lost all credibility with me after he projected his own desires into his 2004 election polls.

[FairOpinion]

It's all in how you ask the questions and whom you ask.

I think Zogby oversampled Democrats in the election -- or he used the "right method", but many more Republican voters turned out, than his model told him.

[RWR8189]

What's a zogby?

[concerned about politics]

The liberal press is silent about this poll. The biased polls were spewed 24/7! As a matter of fact, they're still using the outdated polls!

At first, I was shocked by the previous polls. How could the American people be so cruel? It seemed too odd. Something was wrong. It didn't pass the smell test.
Then, I saw the poll questions, and I knew it wasn't the American people after all. It was the liberal propagandist pushing their death cult agenda. I should have known.

[FairOpinion]

"In a poll sponsored by ABC News and released March 21, however, 63 percent of Americans polled supported the disconnection of Schiavo’s feeding tube. The survey’s description of the woman said she had “suffered brain damage and has been on life support for 15 years. Doctors say she has no consciousness and her condition is irreversible.”

A CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey issued March 22 reported 56 percent believed the feeding tube should have been disconnected, while 31 percent disagreed and 13 percent did not have an opinion. A CBS News poll released March 23 showed 61 percent agreed with removing the tube, while 28 percent were opposed and 11 percent had no opinion.

Potentially misleading information was provided in all three polls. Since Schiavo required no assistance for her heart and lungs, the ABC poll’s use of the phrase “life support” easily could have provided an inaccurate portrayal of her condition. Both the CNN and CBS surveys described Schiavo as being in a “persistent vegetative state,” a contention refuted by some neurologists, who said she could have been in a minimally conscious condition."

http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=20510

[tirednvirginia]

Too bad this poll wasn't released earlier before
Terri died.
Maybe the politicians would have really fought harder for her.

[lafroste]

I had thought that the MSM could not sink to any lower depths. Then they misled and they lied and they distorted all to insure that a helpless invalid was tortured to death. I have no words for the kind of thought process that could convince these people that they are anything but barbaric and despicable animals.

[xJones]

I just love Zogby polls. Zogby was the bozo pollster that declared in May, 2004 that Bush would lose the election. And it was Zogby that predicted at 5pm EST on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004 (election day) that Kerry would win with 311 electoral votes. He's been scrambling to regain some credibility ever since.

With Zogby and his brother, Jim, head of the Arab-American Institute, you need to ask how Allah would vote first before reading a Zogby poll.

[oceanview]

they key word in "when properly informed". most americans are not. americans who are idiots vote too, unfortunately.

[bubbleb]

Yes, exactly.

[EDINVA]

if I were disabled I'd be very concerned with this poll. THe same Q about minorities v. disabled produced dramatically different results (re intervention of legislative branch)

[Ohioan from Florida]

Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!

[FairOpinion]

I noticed it too, they want the Federal Gov to intervene, if "civil rights" ( in general) are violated, but are evenly split to lean to no, when asked, whether the Fed gov should intervene, when courts deny basic rights to the disabled.

I think we have a serious "me-me-me" culture -- let the disabled die, they are just a nuisance anyway, forgetting than any currently able bodied, healthy person with a good mind could become a disabled person in an instant.

[Theresawithanh]

A zogby is someone with a snow globe instead of a crystal ball; either that, or someone with a political agenda.

[spinestein]

[By a two-to-one (44% to 24%) margin, with one-in-three (32%) undecided, the survey finds that an incapacitated person should be presumed to want to live in the absence of written instructions such as a “living will.” ]





By a strange coincidence, that is exactly what THE LAW requires of health care providers (except in Florida now that a judge has decided to create a legal precedent to ignore the law).

[Dolphy]

if I were disabled I'd be very concerned with this poll. THe same Q about minorities v. disabled produced dramatically different results (re intervention of legislative branch)

This is just downright frightening to me. I know many people representing disabled Americans have spoken up in respect to the Schiavo case and the rights of the disabled, I had absolutely no idea that Americans would respond this way.