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thecrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 11:15 AM
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Bizarre CNN poll.... how to vote???
Edited on Sat Jul-10-04 11:28 AM by thecrow
This is the bizarre poll that CNN currently has on their home page:
Does the Senate report on prewar intelligence change your opinion of the Iraq war?

Most people are voting no.
But the NO's are so ambiguous!
Why didn' they put more choices in the poll such as
    No, I still believe the war was based on false pretense
    No, I still believe the pResident was right
    Yes, I have seen the light and the wole RW is a buncha bullshit thugs

    In other words, if you vote "no" it could later be interpreted by CNN as Despite the Senate Intelligence Report, an overwhelming majority still support the pResident going to war

    We should write a letter, as if that would make any difference!!

    edit for spelling <arg!>
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wyethwire Donating Member (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 11:18 AM
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1. Plus one other response
Yes. I have stopped beating my wife.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 11:19 AM
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2. CNN is a study in a network that produces polls that
don't measure anything but the ideiological rigidity of people who take their polls.

It's kind of like the way they avoid actual news in their newscasts.
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charlyvi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 11:23 AM
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3. MSNBC poll says the same thing...
"Has the Senate Intelligence Report changed your opinion about the war in Iraq?"

71% say no....

We can also read these results as meaning most of the respondents haven't changed their minds because they know the war was trumped up to begin with--the report just confirmed what they already knew.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 11:25 AM
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4. "give me ambiguity. . .
or give me something else!"
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 11:26 AM
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5. I wrote CNN and told 'em this poll stinks and doesn't make any sense.
and 'tis no better than a catch-22.

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Keebs Donating Member (122 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 11:42 AM
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6. I saw that earlier
I take their polls quite often but I had to stop and think about it for a minute. I just answered it honestly with, no. I STILL hate the war in Iraq. I agree they should have had more options.
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charlyvi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 11:44 AM
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7. They should have said...
if you supported the war in Iraq, has the Senate Intelligence Committee's report changed your mind?

Hell Yes.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 11:46 AM
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8. All Polls Are Bullshit... Especially Online Polls.
Warped twisted manipulated crooked misleading confusing and intentionally vague.
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cosmicdot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-10-04 12:23 PM
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9. SNAFU
the Establishment Media is dead ... sine die, adjourned indefinitely, is totally lost ... they're like the pirate-used Nags which wore lanterns to draw the Ship of State toward danger, and away from safe harbor ... they've gone so far in the wrong direction, they may never come back ...

lost in their own hype (random photo)

New Media is where it's at.




Douglas Edwards
"the good ol'days"
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