election effect of 'Fahrenheit' - not changing minds - but bolstered Dems

[papau]

http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-et-horn23jul23,1,5670067.story

THE TIMES POLL
Public keeping its cool over election effect of 'Fahrenheit'
By John Horn
Times Staff Writer

Jul 23 2004

Despite its continuing success with the box-office electorate, "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's sharply satirical attack on President Bush and his administration, appears to be wielding less influence among potential voters than the filmmaker and his supporters might have hoped, a Los Angeles Times Poll has found.<snip>

Of the 1,529 registered voters surveyed in the poll, conducted nationwide July 17-21, 9% had seen Moore's film, which has taken in more than $97 million since it opened last month and established itself as the highest-grossing feature-length documentary ever. Of those who have seen the movie, 78% identified themselves as Democrats, 9% as independents and 6% as Republicans.

Predictably, the vast majority of those who had seen the film — 92% — said they were planning to vote for Sen. John F. Kerry and Sen. John Edwards for president. Only 3% planned to vote for Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Seventy-nine percent of those who had seen "Fahrenheit" said the film would not change their November votes; 18% said it made them more likely to vote against Bush; and 3% said it bolstered their resolve to vote for him.<snip>

Overall, the Times Poll found that audience members had mixed feelings about the accuracy of Moore's brand of documentary filmmaking. Nine percent found it "somewhat" or "completely" inaccurate. But despite attacks from conservative critics, most others granted it at least some credibility, with 31% calling it "completely accurate" and 58% calling it "somewhat accurate." The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.<snip>

[aden_nak]

1. Nice numbers.

Hey, even if you only accept that 1/3 of the claims against Bush are true, that's STILL enough to vote his ass out of office for.

[NWHarkness]

2. A load of crap. Do the math

By election day, ay least 20 million Americans will have seen F911. If 18% of viewers say it makes them less likely to vote for Bush, that's more than 3.5 million voters, more than the difference between Gore and Bush in 2000.

[Marvelous_Smarty]

3. Mow many of those 18%

were not voting for Bush anyway? Stats are easier to spin than setting Coni Rice loose on some facts.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. The spin is dizzying from the Bushies

What they don't seem to realize is that once people know you are lying to them they won't believe anything else you say.