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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

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To: tgambill
No, I didn't know that. Very interesting indeed.

Zogby polls are pure propaganda leftist trash and should be viewed that way.

101 posted on 01/16/2006 12:33:48 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Can't be done unless he violated the constitution. I'm not sure he has after some items have been changed regarding his powers after 911.

I don't see why it would be a big deal to investigate whether he has overstepped his boundaries.

 

102 posted on 01/16/2006 1:05:27 AM PST by md2576
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To: Aussie Dasher
LMAO!!! C'mon!

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.

103 posted on 01/16/2006 1:17:32 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Aussie Dasher
Zogby keeps confusing Democrats with Americans.
104 posted on 01/16/2006 1:40:28 AM PST by msnimje (Senate Democrats ----------- Sound and Furry Signifying INSIGNIFICANCE)
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To: Aussie Dasher
"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."

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."

105 posted on 01/16/2006 2:33:33 AM PST by JoeGar
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To: Aussie Dasher
"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."

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.

106 posted on 01/16/2006 3:08:34 AM PST by alnick
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To: Aussie Dasher; The Drowning Witch

They musta been all DUmmies.


107 posted on 01/16/2006 3:13:46 AM PST by Jackknife ( "I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father'." —Will Rogers)
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To: Aussie Dasher; MEG33; Dr. Eckleburg
I'll bet money that Zogby did not ask:

Do you believe the U.S. should listen in on terrorist phone calls when the terrorist dials up someone in America?

108 posted on 01/16/2006 3:15:00 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Zogby Sauce!


109 posted on 01/16/2006 3:15:13 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (http://www.busateripens.com)
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To: Aussie Dasher

It's probably one of Zogby's online polls. If so, it's not random.


110 posted on 01/16/2006 4:40:53 AM PST by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: Aussie Dasher

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!


111 posted on 01/16/2006 4:50:44 AM PST by AmericanChef
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To: Aussie Dasher

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.


112 posted on 01/16/2006 4:59:12 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: Theo

I disagree. There is no way that .00004% of the population is a representative sample.


113 posted on 01/16/2006 5:53:33 AM PST by SALChamps03
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To: Aussie Dasher

Nice push poll Zogby.


114 posted on 01/16/2006 5:54:30 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Aussie Dasher
A dodgy poll or has America gone loopy?

Zogby is a fifth columnist ...

115 posted on 01/16/2006 5:55:25 AM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: Young Scholar

Not if the sample is under 10% of the population being studied. There is no way that .000004% is a representative sample.


116 posted on 01/16/2006 5:55:34 AM PST by SALChamps03
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To: Theo

I left out a decimal place. That would be .000004%.


117 posted on 01/16/2006 5:56:34 AM PST by SALChamps03
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To: Mo1
Excatly Mol, that's what I meant. Moonbats commission poll, pollster fashions question to give them desired result, pollster gets paid. Otherwise, zero boxes, zero crates.
118 posted on 01/16/2006 5:56:51 AM PST by NonValueAdded (What ever happened to "Politics stops at the water's edge?")
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To: Aussie Dasher

Unfortunately, the Zomby Poll forgot to tell us that it was a survey of 70% Democrats and 30% Republicans. What a fraud!


119 posted on 01/16/2006 5:58:52 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: SALChamps03

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.


120 posted on 01/16/2006 6:05:32 AM PST by Theo
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