“According to a new Pew poll, the first to gauge the public’s response to the controversial programs, a comfortable majority of the American sheeple — 56 percent to 41 percent — supports the gathering of millions of phone records in the quest to fight terrorism.”
If 56% is a “comfortable majority”, then what’s 59% on the other side?:
“Just 26% of Likely U.S. Voters favor the government’s secret collecting of these phone records for national security purposes regardless of whether there is any suspicion of wrongdoing. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% are opposed to the practice.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3029567/posts
But they're liberals, you see, so they're entitled to have it both ways. Didn't you remember?