[JohnHuang2]

Friday, February 21, 2003

Quote of the Day by Republic

[Huck]

The appetite for U.S. military action against Iraq without United Nations support has waned over the last week and a half. In the latest poll, just 30% of Americans say the United States should take action unilaterally

So that's it then? It's either UN authorized or it's unilateral? I have been wondering what the new definition of unilateral was. I couldn't figure it out until now.

[JohnHuang2]

Okay, now I'm really, really heading out the door.

Have a great weekend, y'all :^)

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks, JH2 !

[EllaMinnow]

This seems much closer to reality than the Harris Poll earlier this week!

[VRWC_minion]

Most people think the world leaders don't respet Bush yet most people think he is doing a good job. Does this mean most people couldn't care what the other world leaders think ?

[kesg]

These numbers don't make much sense. According to Gallup, 59% of all Americans support a war against Iraq. 30% of all Americans would support a war regardless of what the UN does. Another 40 percent say that the US should first wait for a second resolution. If you add these two figures together, that's 70% -- more than 59%.

At first, I thought the explanation for the difference was that some of the 40% percent consists of people who would oppose the war even if the UN passed a second resolution. But no, that's not it: according to Gallup, 26% would oppose the war even if the UN did pass such a resolution. So, all of the 40 percent are people who make their support contingent on what the UN does.

So, what's the real number, 59% or 70%? I think it is the latter (which, incidentally, matches the most recent Fox poll on this question). I say that because as of right now, the UN had not yet passed a second resolution, and this fact in turn may explain some of the "opposition" to the war.

Incidentally, don't even get me started on those people who think that nations like France and Syria should have a say on how we protect American citizens, allies, and interests against people like Saddam Hussein.

[Thane_Banquo]

Support for war without a new U.N. vote authorizing it is only 30%, down 9 points from a poll conducted Feb. 7-9.

As Dick Morris pointed out on Foxnews, this question is specifically engineered by the pollsters to yield a leftist result.

[Nick Danger]

If we take the number of people who are strongly opposed to the war, and add in the number of people who would oppose the war if the UN does not approve it, plus the people who now oppose the war because they follow the views of Larry Hagman, plus the people who worry about the effect of war on the whales, and add in the people who live on East 53rd Street and all the ones who let Jimmy Carter tell them what to think, we see that 99% of the public could be said to oppose the war if we strech things far enough and munge the numbers any way we want.

[cake_crumb]

"The poll also shows that Americans opposed to a war with Iraq are more intense in their beliefs than are those who favor military action. This results in a situation in which the number of Americans who feel intensely that war should be avoided is roughly equal to the number who are intensely in favor of war. The poll, conducted Feb. 17-19, finds that 59% of Americans say they favor going to war in an attempt to remove Saddam Hussein from power. That's down slightly from the 63% who expressed this view right after Powell's United Nations appearance."

Pardon me but I'm confused.

Firstly, I don't understand how "intensity" is measured via a poll...is that anything like gloming voter intent from unmarked Florida ballots??

Secondly, I'm no math whiz, but HOW does 59% of Americans still in favor of going to war to oust Saddam 'roughly equal' the 41% who would be left over out of the usual 100% considered the top end in polls...discounting the 'undecided', of course??? What...did they poll 118 percent of the population, or do they define 'roughly' much differently than the rest of us??

[CyberAnt]

It's interesting that Gallup remains about 10 pts behind FOX. That's the same distance there were on GW's approval numbers too.

[cyncooper]

Bush's job approval ratings are healthy by historical standards, but clearly much lower than they were throughout 2002. The current 58% rating remains about three points above the historical average for all presidents since World War II. Bush received the highest job approval rating in Gallup Poll history -- 90% -- in September 2001.

I thought you might find this interesting.

[Once-Ler]

"In September 2002, with 58% of Americans giving general support for the war, the intense public tilted toward war by 34% to 26%, compared with the 29% to 30% standoff that currently exists."

I’m not surprised that all the left...that 30% who are vehemently against war...are vehemently against the war. So frigid what? Half of them will never admit opposing the war 1 year from now.

This just means the left realizes that they will be ostracized when this war goes into the history books as the greatest military victory of all time.

This war is not predicated upon opinion polls. The decision to remove Saddam was decided long ago. There is one superpower in the world and its leader is Dubya. The flock will follow the shepherd were he leads.

[Iowegian]

Powell "Bounce" Fades

Notice how the liberal headline writer refuses to give Bush credit for his own work and state of the union speech, but transfers it to a more moderate and, to them, more palatable source.