Posted on 03/02/2006 3:01:32 PM PST by Dave S
03/02/06 FOX Poll: Most Oppose Port Deal; Republicans Lose Ground Thursday, March 02, 2006 By Dana Blanton PHOTOS
Most Americans oppose allowing a Dubai company to run some U.S. ports, even as a majority understands the U.S. would continue to control port security, according to a new FOX News poll. One in four sees the United Arab Emirates as a strong ally, but most either disagree or are unsure.
In addition, the poll shows Republicans have lost ground on the issue of terrorism, and by a wide margin voters now think it would be better for the country if Democrats win control of Congress in this year’s midterm election.
For only the second time of his presidency, the poll finds that President Bush’s overall job approval rating has fallen below 40 percent — today 39 percent of Americans say they approve and a 54 percent majority disapproves. Late last year the president’s approval hit a record-low of 36 percent (8-9 November 2005).
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Holy crap! Here I am, using my own brain to make decisions like a chump, when I could just read the weekly polls and go along with the majority opinion reached by a self-admitted uninformed public.
I'm giddy with excitement thinking about all the spare time I'm going to have every week since I won't need to find things out for myself.
A great big "THANKS" to all who've shown me that I will be happiest in life if I just believe what some political advocates and mouthpieces on TV tell me to believe.
Anyone who needs the sarcasm tag to understand the above post is an idiot.
The only thing this poll proves is the stupidity of those polled.
It seems that it is "JUST FINE" for UAE special ops personnel to fight alongside our troops or for the UAE to service our Naval ships more than any other port [save the USA] in the world but to let them operate some terminals in the US is catastrophic.
Virtually EVERY person interviewed who works at the terminals STATE that SECURITY will not be diminished.
IMHO we are running scared in the face of the enemy and letting our FEARS rule our common sense.
And Switzerland has bank accounts that the terrorists use, let's ban all business with Switzerland.
An earlier thread noted that, Fox or no, this "poll" was also heavily weighted with a majority "Democrats" and "Independents."
Fortunately, there's another shoe to drop on this story.
What happens if/when later, after further review, Congress is forced to agree that there is no reason to stop this deal?
The opponents look like complete and total idiots, in full view.
"I did. Actually there are more Democrats registerd but they are too lazy and dumb to vote. However, if you think you could get an equal number of Republicans to the polls tomorrow as Democrats, you've been smoking something funny.
Maybe the absolute level is not correct but the guys that stick their head in the sand and say Bush's declining poll numbers are meaningless because he isnt running again are nuts."
I wouldn't be so sure that Republicans aren't energized to vote, especially being as many of them are fired up against the extremism of the Democrats and their incessant Bush bashing. I think most Republicans realize from the John Roberts and Sam Alito confirmations that we need to keep a Republican Senate to keep the conservative judges coming. Just because you're disgruntled because you drank the media's Koolaid on the terminal operations issue doesn't mean the rest of us are.
Regardless, who said anything about Bush's approval numbers having to correlate with the turn-out in a future election? Assuming what turn out will be in an upcoming election is a poor methodology for trying to get accurate poll results and accurate party representation in your poll. Having worked in polling, the more accepted method is using the MOST RECENT NATL. ELECTION to weight your demographic data on. Future projections are just a guess. And the most recent election had 37% Dem, 37% Republican. By those numbers, CBS and Fox's numbers are even more eggregious.
Finally, I never said Bush's poll numbers are of no consequence to the upcoming election. But the upcoming election is 8 months off and that is a life time in politics. Things can change on a dime in Bush's favor, especially the fact that the economy is looking to have a strong year. I would remind you Bush wasn't looking so good in the winter of 2004 either. I don't exactly see President Kerry over in India right now.
Despite the sizable opposition to the deal, a majority thinks it will go through: 54 percent think a year from now the UAE-company will be managing some ports in the United States.
And of course the Knee Jerk Hysterics keep lying about what the Deal does. They will be managing ZERO of our ports. When are you all going to stop telling this lie? The facts have been rubbed in your face for two weeks now.
This is more a reflection of the criminal incompetence of the Failed Media. The level of ignorance and factual incompetence being displayed by the "People's watch dog" on this story is inexcusable.
Because it's idiotic on the face of it, politically and potentially strategically. Politically, for sure, the risk-reward on this deal was negative. A bad wager. Strategically, it's my hunch that it's high risk.
And then to justify it by saying, "we don't want people to think we're racist..." How lame! The called us racist when we were strafing Afghanistan with artillery. It didn't stop us then.
So who is the Rat's big hero? Hillary? Yeah, right. Osama or Obama or whatever the hell his name is?
Raising my hand. I thought it was spelled 'ignerant' tho...?
Thank you very much for the info, I really appreciate it..
So your rationale is to support the Dubai Deal no matter WHAT because any dissent may help Hitlery??
That's awfully convoluted reasoning.
The "fact" is, THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS ARE CREEPED OUT BY MUSLIMS HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH U.S. POERT and the entire smoke and mirrors process preceding it.
This is why we are a Constitutional Republic and NOT a Democracy. Stupidity and knee jerk hysteria is not a sound base for Government policy no matter how well it polls.
One of FR resident hall monitors will declare you "stoopid." :-)
I am absolutely stunned at the out and out bigotry by people on this forum.
Oh, for pete's sake. I bet most of the people polled couldn't find the UAE on a map. Bet they don't vote, either. Fortunately.
"I say it does not because it introduces too many Muslims into a picture where they need to be absent."
There will be no personnel changes with this terminals operations deal at the ports themselves. The same people running those operations now, all Americans, will be running them when the deal is finalized. The ownership of the company is all that will change, not the staffing at the docks. And security and container inspections are never carried out by the operation's company here domestically. They're carried out by DHS, the Coast Guard and Customs. So nothing changes.
If this company wanted to run a nuke into the US, they could already do so because the run many of the ports of origin from where shipping to the US originates and do pre-screening of cargo there. If they wanted to use their shipping operations to attack us, they already could have done so. But somehow I doubt the UAE wants to risk losing its country and the substantial economic progress its made by launching some terroristic misadventure which in any event in no way is reflective of the philosophy of the govt. there, which is that of a moderate, pro-US, pro-Western government.
You want to see a Democratic Congress and White HOuse?
Because that's what you're gonna have.
But you'll be happy then, won't you?
My pleasure. I try to spread the word on this as much as I can. I've seen how these media polls get done. I want to do as much as I can to keep others from being fooled by them.
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