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.
Zogby polls are pure propaganda leftist trash and should be viewed that way.
I don't see why it would be a big deal to investigate whether he has overstepped his boundaries.
Zogby has turned into a real p.o.s. (although I am not at all sure that "turned into" is an operative phrase).
Let that scumbag Zogby try THIS far more relevant and appropriate question:
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"If President Bush wiretapped American citizens who were suspected of collaborating with Islamic terrorists abroad without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
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Want to guess what the poll numbers would say THEN?
I have seen some bogus polls from this Islamic terrorist sympathizer, Zogby (who is of Arab descent, btw), but this poll takes the cake for unmitigated gall. Sickening.
A left-leaning question from a left-leaning group. What would the response have been if the question were, "If President Bush wiretapped American citizens in contact with Al Qaida, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
Bush said it best: "If Al Qaida is callin' ya', we want to know."
Well gee, any president who goes around spying on American citizens willy nilly should be impeached.
Zogby deliberately asked a hypothetical about something that hasn't happened rather than ask, "If President Bush spies on Al Qaeda members, regardless of citizenship, should he be impeached." I guarantee Zogby would not like the results of that poll question.
They musta been all DUmmies.
Do you believe the U.S. should listen in on terrorist phone calls when the terrorist dials up someone in America?
Zogby Sauce!
It's probably one of Zogby's online polls. If so, it's not random.
Most Americans don't know any of the important details, and seek none. All the Ignorant Masses know is the poll question. Wake up, People!
Zogby? ROFLMAO!! From polipundit:
Zogby: Back in 1996, pollster Zogby hit the bullseye in predicting the results of the Presidential election. In 2000, they were close again, though their aggregate error tied them with 5 other national polls. In 2002, Zogby appeared to show a lean in favor of the Democrats, and he was way off in his mid-term election predictions. This year, at the end of the spring, John Zogby actually came out and predicted John Kerry would win the election, which appeared to indicate his bias had reached the point of full-blown partisanship against the President, reflected in a growing number of opinions made out of personal preference, rather than on the evidence. Zogby’s refusal to show his work, only magnifies the apparent distortion of his results.
Zogby runs two polls; a telephone poll and an Interactive Internet poll. Unlike almost every other poll, Zogby’s telephone poll is not RDD. Zogby describes his list as follows: “The majority of telephone lists for polls and surveys are produced in the IT department at Zogby International. Vendor-supplied lists are used for regions with complicated specifications, e.g., some Congressional Districts. Customer-supplied lists are used for special projects like customer satisfaction surveys and organization membership surveys.
Telephone lists generated in our IT department are called from the 2002 version of a nationally published set of phone CDs of listed households, ordered by telephone number. Residential (or business) addresses are selected and then coded by region, where applicable. An appropriate replicate1 is generated from this parent list, applying the replicate algorithm repeatedly with a very large parent list, e.g., all of the US.
Acquired lists are tested for duplicates, coded for region, tested for regional coverage, and ordered by telephone, as needed.” Zogby notes that “regional quotas are employed to ensure adequate coverage nationwide.” That is, Zogby takes pains to insure that his respondent poll is not random.
As for his weighting, Zogby states “Reported frequencies and crosstabs are weighted using the appropriate demographic profile to provide a sample that best represents the targeted population from which the sample is drawn from. The proportions comprising the demographic profile are compiled from historical exit poll data, census data, and from Zogby International survey data.”
In other words, Zogby uses his own polls to drive some of his demographic parameters, a practice not approved, much less recommended, by either the NCPP or the AAPOR.
All in all, Zogby’s habit of confusing his personal opinion with data-driven conclusions, his admitted practice of manipulating the respondent pool and his demographic weights, by standards not accepted anywhere else, along with mixing Internet polls with telephone interview results, forces me to reject his polls as unacceptable; they simply cannot be verified, and I strongly warn the reader that there is no established benchmark for the Zogby reports, even using previous Zogby polls, because he has changed his practices from his own history.
I disagree. There is no way that .00004% of the population is a representative sample.
Nice push poll Zogby.
Zogby is a fifth columnist ...
Not if the sample is under 10% of the population being studied. There is no way that .000004% is a representative sample.
I left out a decimal place. That would be .000004%.
Unfortunately, the Zomby Poll forgot to tell us that it was a survey of 70% Democrats and 30% Republicans. What a fraud!
It doesn't matter if you disagree or not. Take a look at the following page:
http://www.isixsigma.com/library/content/c000709ex.asp
It's shocking to find how few people you need to have a statistically sound survey.
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