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AOL Poll: Cindy's Support Fading (Yes!)
Newsmax ^ | 8-20-05 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 08/22/2005 9:31:22 AM PDT by joyspring777

Watching Bush-bashing Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan's press coverage, you'd think she has won the hearts and minds of Americans by universal acclamation.

But a massive poll by America Online suggests that Sheehan is actually losing the public opinion battle by a landslide.

Asked: "Do you agree with Sheehan's views?" Cindy's supporters trail her critics, 56 to 44 percent, with nearly 290,000 Americans responding to the technically unscientific survey. Asked, "Do you agree with Sheehan's tactics?" Cindy faired even worse, losing that contest 59 to 44 percent.

Other, much smaller "scientific" surveys also show Sheehan losing support, but by smaller margins.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cindysheehan; fading; pollnumbersdown
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I am glad to see America catching on, and the opposite rallys as well!
1 posted on 08/22/2005 9:31:26 AM PDT by joyspring777
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Geeeee...if the pools weren't rigged...folks would realize she never had much support to begin with.


2 posted on 08/22/2005 9:35:21 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent Green is People!")
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HAHAHHAHHHAHAHA...pools=polls.


3 posted on 08/22/2005 9:35:42 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent Green is People!")
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To: joyspring777

The circus is not fun anymore when the clown goes home.


4 posted on 08/22/2005 9:36:57 AM PDT by libsl (I'm just sayin'....)
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To: joyspring777

Cindy who?


5 posted on 08/22/2005 9:37:27 AM PDT by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
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To: joyspring777

On-line polls are about as dependable as Tarot cards. Sheesh!


6 posted on 08/22/2005 9:37:35 AM PDT by Chuck54 (Confirm justice Roberts!)
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I just wish they would ask Cindy one question, "Do you think what you are doing helps or hinders our troops serving in Iraq, or do you care?" or "What would you say to the mother of a soldier that was killed from recently stepped up bombings that have occurred since your vigil?"
7 posted on 08/22/2005 9:37:58 AM PDT by against_kerry
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How do 59 and 44 add up? Something is very strange in this poll!!


8 posted on 08/22/2005 9:38:46 AM PDT by BonnieJ
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What do they mean.....fading. She never ever had the support of the American people.


9 posted on 08/22/2005 9:39:11 AM PDT by OldFriend (MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT ~ Adam Smith)
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To: BonnieJ

103 % is normal. ; )


10 posted on 08/22/2005 9:39:55 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Warning.... Contents under pressure....If you don't like what I say, don't read it !)
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technically unscientific survey

Oh, so a self-selected poll is a "technically unscientific survey".

I suppose the St. Louis Cardinals lost the World Series last year on a technicality. They merely lost the first four games.

11 posted on 08/22/2005 9:40:20 AM PDT by SolidSupplySide
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Asked: "Do you agree with Sheehan's views?" Cindy's supporters trail her critics, 56 to 44 percent, with nearly 290,000 Americans responding to the technically unscientific survey.

The MSM is soooo pathetic

If the numbers were reversed, showing support for Cindy, they simply would have said, "with 290,000 Americans responding to the survey. However, since the numbers don't jive with what the MSM would want them to be, they add the little "technically unscientific" disclaimer.

What a bunch of losers.

Best Regards

Sergio

12 posted on 08/22/2005 9:42:44 AM PDT by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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Cindy is quickly becoming a Useless Idiot.

Seems that it is really hard to intellectualize grief.

13 posted on 08/22/2005 9:44:20 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: BonnieJ

It's Million Mom Math.


14 posted on 08/22/2005 9:45:11 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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The counter-culture movement of the 1960's parasitized the moral momentum of the Civil Rights Movement and America's commitment to end institutionalized racial discrimination. In the minds of many Americans, these two movements were fused.

Today they no longer are.

The counter-culture movement is recognized today by more and more Americans as a silly, iconoclastic tantrum, unrelated to the nobility of the Civil Rights Movement, its devotees tiresome old worn-out hippies and other loosers who have nothing to do with the idealism and basic human decency that fired the assaults on racism, no matter what their wearisome, shallow, self-aggrandizing claims may be.

15 posted on 08/22/2005 9:45:40 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Love is the ultimate aphrodisiac!)
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You got it. Glad to see people can see through the bias of the MSM writing so well.


16 posted on 08/22/2005 9:46:32 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: joyspring777

I am stunned beyond words, just stunned. She is now old news since she went home and is not on the front lines of protest anymore. No longer matters.


17 posted on 08/22/2005 9:46:49 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Imperial Federal Goverment is your worst enemy! Don't give in to them!)
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To: libsl

Is the sideshow still there? The fat man is always good for a few laughs.


18 posted on 08/22/2005 9:53:58 AM PDT by weegee (The Rovebaiting by DUAC must stop. It is nothing but a partisan witchhunt.)
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To: Savage Beast

That grafting happened when communists got MLK Jr. to hop onboard their income and housing protests. Moved the goal post beyond racial discrimination to class politics of "rich" vs. "poor".


19 posted on 08/22/2005 9:55:41 AM PDT by weegee (The Rovebaiting by DUAC must stop. It is nothing but a partisan witchhunt.)
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What support?

Hell, the media was her primary support. You can only sell something worth nothing for so long...


20 posted on 08/22/2005 10:01:33 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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