New CBS Poll--Check out the Plame/Lying Numbers....

[Gloria]

The nos about the LYING about the leak totals about 77% (Mostly lying; hiding something)
Economy Good = 57%


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/03/opinion/polls/main713832.shtml


Poll: Country Divided Over Iraq

NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2005



Forty-eight percent now think things are going well for the United States in Iraq, while half say things are going badly. These assessments are slightly improved from July, when 54 percent said things were going badly for the United States.


(CBS) The president’s approval level remains below 50 percent, and Americans are still divided over the war in Iraq. They are paying attention to one of the summer’s major news stories – the possible 2003 leak to reporters of the identity of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame. In fact, the story has captured a level of attention from the public similar to the early stages of political scandals such as Whitewater, the Democrats' 1996 fundraising and Iran Contra.

Forty-one percent of the public views this controversy as of great importance to the nation -- more than what was said about the Whitewater scandal in its early days, and about the same as was measured for Iran-Contra in the spring of 1987 and the campaign fundraising scandal. But compared to how Americans felt about Watergate in 1973, fewer today see this issue as of great importance.

IMPORTANCE TO THE NATION

Great
Plame leak (8/2005)
41%
Fundraising (3/1997)
40%
Whitewater (4/1994)
16%
Iran-Contra (5/1987)
42%
Watergate (5/1973)*
53%


ETC....SOME; VERY LITTLE nos. follow

[rodeodance]

1. "slightly improved"--more people think things going well in Irag!!---even

if this poll was before this weeks bloodbath--this is terrible that people are believing things are going better!



........Forty-eight percent now think things are going well for the United States in Iraq, while half say things are going badly. These assessments are slightly improved from July, when 54 percent said things were going badly for the United States.

[snowbear]

2. Betcha that number changes in their next poll..

Unless of course they've hired Rasmussen to do it.. :freak:

[shraby]

3. If 75% haven't heard about it, the media

is falling down on the job!! But we all know that don't we?

[matt819]

4. Sad as it is. . .

the reality is that the rightwing will never budge from their pro-* pro-Republican positions. IMHO, there's a form of mental illness there, with these folks able to incorporate the cognitive dissonance between reality and their perception of the world around them. Pathetic, really, and very dangerous. At the same time, Democrats will never, under threat of death, waver from our own deeply held beliefs. Notwithstanding assertions of vote tampering and stolen elections (which I believe, by the way), the fact remains that these polls, and the idiotic polls at cnn.com, are almost always divided 52/48.