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52% of Americans: Impeach Bush on wiretaps (Zogby)
WorldNetDaily ^ | 16 January 2006

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: georgewbush; itstheborderstupid; muslimpollster; nationalsecurity; patriotleak; polls; sillydems; spying; terrorism; wiretaps; zogby; zogbysspecialsauce
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To: Young Scholar

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?


181 posted on 01/17/2006 6:55:07 PM PST by Carling (http://www.marriedadults.com/howarddeanscreamaudio141jq.mp3)
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To: Carling

Not really, as long as you don't complain that polls are "inaccurate." I was just wondering if you had a specific goal.


182 posted on 01/17/2006 7:03:51 PM PST by Young Scholar
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To: Young Scholar

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.


183 posted on 01/17/2006 7:05:01 PM PST by Carling (http://www.marriedadults.com/howarddeanscreamaudio141jq.mp3)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Misleading question... and I'd dearly love to see the internals!


184 posted on 01/17/2006 7:05:49 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Aussie Dasher

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.


185 posted on 01/17/2006 7:09:02 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Aussie Dasher

The same Zogby who had Kerry in an electoral landslide?
Yeah right, keep trying to sway public opinion with this drivel.


186 posted on 01/17/2006 7:10:23 PM PST by JerseyDvl ("Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"-Samuel Johnson to the Dems of today.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Er, what happened to the 60+% of Americans who, in another poll, agreed that the President had the right and responsibility to listen in on phone calls to suspected terrorists or to countries harboring suspected terrorists? I guess they weren't asked their opinion in this poll.
187 posted on 01/17/2006 7:21:21 PM PST by pepperdog
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To: Pukin Dog; Mo1; Howlin

just heard on O'reilly the poll was paid for by Afterdowningstreet.org


188 posted on 01/17/2006 9:49:54 PM PST by hipaatwo
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To: hipaatwo; Dog; Peach; Miss Marple; Tony Snow; radioproducer; ohioWfan; tiredoflaundry
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

190 posted on 01/17/2006 9:58:23 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: umgud

Exactly.


191 posted on 01/17/2006 10:06:23 PM PST by Howlin
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To: umgud

Zogby lost all credibility years ago. The polls he puts out is so laughable in their inaccuracies and bias...


192 posted on 01/17/2006 10:09:53 PM PST by alligator (To be ignorant of one's ingorance is the malady of the ignorant.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Zogby is an arab terrorist supporter and a liar.


193 posted on 01/17/2006 10:13:55 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Aussie Dasher
Ok I might agree if Bush wiretapped me. A fat white guy that is 42 years old and born in Colorado. But I don't think I was under the looking glass. I think believe he was looking at someone who speak fluent GOAT and can say I will respect you in the morning or sacrifice you, but trust me either way...
194 posted on 01/17/2006 10:21:05 PM PST by SledgeCS (Why are Liberals/Democrats ashamed to be American and support the USA???)
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To: hipaatwo

Is that true?


195 posted on 01/17/2006 10:21:39 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin

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.


196 posted on 01/17/2006 10:42:27 PM PST by hipaatwo
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To: Howlin

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


197 posted on 01/17/2006 10:43:58 PM PST by hipaatwo
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To: Mo1
This poll question has all the value of asking, "If George W. Bush were a bad man, would you not like him?"

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.

198 posted on 01/18/2006 7:04:08 AM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

I doubt whether 52% of Americans even know about the "wiretapping" issue.


199 posted on 01/19/2006 11:28:39 AM PST by Lorianne
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